A review of big five personality and job performance among employees

Abstract

Big Five is one of the prominent models of personality that have an important role in organization to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of employee's performance. Numerous theories showed that there was a significant relationship between Big Five personality and job performance among employees at workplace. Hence, this paper describes a proposed study to examine the relationship between Big Five personality and job performance among employees in an organization. This model is based on five personality dimension that are increasingly popular with the acronym OCEAN (Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism). A questionnaire design will be used in this study and it will be analyzed by using SPSS software. The NEO-FFI (Five Factor Inventory) and performance appraisal questionnaire will be used as measuring instruments. The total population of this study is 200 employees that work in production lines and the sample is 132 respondents that obtained based on Krejcie Morgan (1970) by using stratified sampling method.