A study on the correlation between personality and job performance of government employees in Ho Chi Minh City
Abstract
In fact, employee performance plays an important role in every organization.
Therefore, making a study on factors influence employee performance is necessary in
order to improve and develop human resources management strategy.
In general, the research uses to examine the impact of personality on job
performance of Government employees in Ho Chi Minh City and to discover how it
differs in distinct gender and age groups. The result also provides a better understanding
of how well is the Government employee performance.
Big five traits, which is most common theoretical of personality, will be used in
this research. Quantitative method with self-administered survey are applied. There
were 279 respondents were participated in the research, which mainly come from Labor,
War Invalids and Social Affairs Department and Department of Information and
Communications. After that, several tests are ran in order to analyse data, give
conclusion as well as appropriate recommendations.
Finally, the result reports the possible relationship between Conscientiousness,
Extraversion, which are two traits of Big Five personality and Government employee
performance. One more finding is that the research model can be applied for every
people regardless gender and age.