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Association between personality traits and job performance among secondary school teachers
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In this article, the authors examined the association between personality traits and job performance among Malaysian public secondary school teachers, focusing on Big Five personality dimensions: Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism.Abstract:
This paper examines the association between personality traits and job performance among Malaysian public secondary school teachers. It focuses on Big Five personality dimensions: Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neurot icism. A total of 954 questionnaires were distributed to teachers in eight public secondary schools, however only 489 usable responses were used. Descriptive, correlation and multiple regression statistics are used to analyse the data. The findings reveale d that there is a positive association between Openness to Experience and Agreeableness and job performance. On the contrary, there is a negative association between Neuroticism and job performance. The most predictive trait that influences job performance is Neuroticism and followed by Openness to Experience. The implications of this study suggests that understanding the influence of personality traits on job performance is essential and its justify the use of personality test by the Ministry of Education Malaysia for recruiting and selecting suitable candidates to become an educator. The Ministry of Education Malaysia is aiming to implement a world - class teacher education to ensure that the teachers are competent to meet the national inspirationread more
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The Relationship between the vocational teachers’ personality traits and the work motivation
Abstract: Background: Nowadays, as a means of supplying the market with a highly qualified workforce, vocational teachers play a significant role in Lithuania’s educational system. It is assumed that the most important factor determining the quality of education is the teacher. Undoubtedly, the vocational teacher’s personality traits and their work motivation are considered to be important components of a successful educational process. Aim: this study was carried out in order to detect the relationship between the vocational teachers’ personality traits and their work motivation. Method: The personality traits were evaluated using the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John et al., 1991, 2008) while the work motivation was assessed by employment of the Multidimensional Work Motivation Scale (MWMS; Gagne et al., 2015). 364 teachers from various Lithuania’s vocational schools participated in the research (243 of them were women, 93 men, while 10 did not specify their gender). Results: The study revealed that a greater expression of neuroticism correlated with an increase of the teachers’ motivation (p < .01), extrinsic (social and material) regulation (p < .01) and introjected regulation (p < .05), although the identified regulation (p < .05) and intrinsic motivation (p < .01) were observed to decrease. Meanwhile, with the increase of the teachers’ expression of extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness, intrinsic motivation (p < .01) and identified regulation (p < .01) heightened, and the extrinsic (material) motivation decreased (in case of extraversion and agreeableness – p < .01, in case of conscientiousness and openness to experience – p < .05). Moreover, the differences of work motivation noticed among various personality profiles were added to the results of the research. In comparison to the teachers with low levels of neuroticism, the teachers with higher neuroticism levels were more likely to experience extrinsic (material) regulation (p < .001) and amotivation (p < .001). While the teachers with
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