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The relationship between personality traits and job satisfaction: special reference to WSO2 it company in Western province

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dc.contributor.author Raveendran, Thaneswary
dc.contributor.author Nirojan, Jasintha
dc.contributor.author Vijayakumar, Renusha
dc.date.accessioned 2020-01-22T07:29:47Z
dc.date.available 2020-01-22T07:29:47Z
dc.date.issued 2019-11-25
dc.identifier.citation 8th Annual International Research Conference - 2019, on "Sustainability through Business, Humanities and Technologies", pp.148-156. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-955-627-195-9
dc.identifier.uri http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4299
dc.description.abstract The purpose of this study to present the relationship between personality traits and job satisfaction among the Software developers and Engineers in WSO2 Information Technology (IT) Company in Western Province. Quantitative approach was utilized in this study. Variables namely; openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism were used as the independent variables to predict the job satisfaction. Data were collected from a sample of 249 respondents using structured questionnaire. The results of the analysis show that the relationship between personality traits and job satisfaction is in the moderate level. Most of the employees believe that the job satisfaction depends on other factors too than the personality traits. Further, personality traits contributes significantly to job satisfaction (F= 53.432; P < 0.05) with the prediction of 37.8 percent of variation. Further openness, conscientiousness, extroversion and agreeableness contributes significantly to job satisfaction rather than neuroticism. This study is limited to the sample of IT employees and Engineers and the environmental factors, economic issues and fiscal and monitoring portfolio which are not examined in this research. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Management and Commerce, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.subject Personality Traits en_US
dc.subject Openness en_US
dc.subject Conscientiousness en_US
dc.subject Extroversion en_US
dc.subject Agreeableness Neuroticism en_US
dc.subject Job Satisfaction en_US
dc.title The relationship between personality traits and job satisfaction: special reference to WSO2 it company in Western province en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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