The relationship between the big five personality factors of managers and supervisors with the employees`s organizational citizenship behaviours
Subject Areas : Educationalحسین سماواتیان 1 , فاطمه خانی 2 , ابوالقاسم نوری 3 , محمدرضا صمصام شریعت 4
1 - دانشگاه اصفهان
2 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد خوراسگان
3 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد خوراسگان
4 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد خوراسگان
Keywords: Managers, Big Five Personality Factors, supervisors, personnel`s organizational citizenship behaviors,
Abstract :
The aim of the current research was the study of the relationship between the big five personality factors of managers and supervisors with the organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) of their personnel.Method of research was correlation and the statistical society included the personnel, managers and supervisores of the two factories, in which 73 managers and supervisors and 204 subordinates were selected using random sampling. Assessment tools consisted of, Big Five Personality Questionnaire (Costa & McCrae ,1990), and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Questinnaire (Lee & Allen, 2002). The data were analyzed using Pearson`s correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis (enter method). The results showed that there was significant relationships between the conscientiousness, openness to experience and agreeableness of managers and supervisors and the OCB of their subordinates. Also analysis of regression (enter) revealed that only openness to experieance and agreeableness of managers and supervisors could predict the organizational citizenship behaviors toward individuals and organization of their subordinates.
