The relationship between big five personality with work motivation, competitiveness and job satisfaction

Abstract

In spite of its popularity, the Big Five Personality has been criticized for being too descriptive to provide a theoretical model of personalit y. The current study aims to investigate the extent to which personality and demographic variabl es contribute to motivation, competitiveness and job satisfaction as defined by measuring their personality, work motivation and satisfaction. This paper shows that consci entiousness and job status were both significant predictors of job satisfaction. All acknowledgement that individual differences can affect the success of an intervention, may contribute to the design of effective work reorganisation schemes that are better sui ted to the employees they seek to benefit. Originality. The value of this paper was that it looked at how personality and demographic factors may influence work motivation, level of competitiveness and work satisfaction.