Journal of Hotel and Business Management
Open Access

Abstract

Impact of Personality Type on Job Productivity

Janjua Najam-us-Sahar

The objective of this research is to find out the impact of personality type of an employee on his job productivity. A survey of 10,000 individuals was conducted from different cities to elucidate the associations between organizational goals and a number of intra-organizational variables. In this research, author found that there are many factors which affect the employee performance and which are either affected by employee’s performance or employee’s performance is affected by them. Among those factors, personality of an employee plays an important role. The findings of the study also have numerous implications for practitioners. At a strategic level, the study suggests that executives should acknowledge in their change processes that decisions at an organizational level regarding the personality of an employee could have a profound effect on the productivity of an employee. Further, managers of functions may find it beneficial to manipulate a range of intra-organizational variables to enhance employee productivity.