Big Five Personality Traits and Organizational Attractiveness
Beş Faktör Kişilik Özellikleri ve Örgütsel Çekicilik
Abstract
In today’s world firms are trying to attract suitable and qualified workers for themselves. That is why concepts like organizational attractiveness have gained importance. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of personality characteristics of individuals on organizational attractiveness in person-organization fit. In addition to that the study also examines the effect of organizational characteristics (Size of the organization, pay system, level of multinationalization and level of centralization ) on organizational attractiveness. In order to find the effect of personality, Big Five personality characteristics (Extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience) have been used. The sample of the study consists of 118 final year students from Business department of a Pakistani University. Participants filled the questionnaires related to organizational and personality characteristics. Generally the participants were more attracted to multinational and decentralized organizations. The persons high on extroversion were more attracted to multinational organizations. Big five factor theory has been used in the study, the result of the research showed that for highly extrovert people multinational organizations are more attractive but people with other personality characteristics did not considered the organizational characteristics.
Keywords
Big Five Theory, Organizational Attraction, Personality, Person-Organization Fit
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