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Relationship Between Personality Traits, Work Environment And Interpersonal Relationship At Work
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1.3 Statement Of The Problem
Interpersonal
relationships among employees pose significant concern to management.
This is due to the fact that it has serious implications for
organisational outcomes. When employees have negative interpersonal
relationships, conflict is the inevitable consequence. Thus, studies
have looked into aspects of the work environment that could foster an
atmosphere of harmony and cohesiveness in the workplace. Furthermore, a
boost to productivity is expected when employees have good interpersonal
relationship. This is because ideas will flow more easily through the
organisations and problems will be solved more readily.
However, the
determinants of positive interpersonal relationships is an issue
organisational psychologists have been contending with over the past two
decades. Aspects of the work such as job design, feedback, etc and
individual factors such as motivation, job involvement, have been the
focus of most research. Nevertheless, work environment and personality
traits are beginning to surface as relevant predictors of interpersonal
relationship. The ability of work environment to stimulate positive
interpersonal relations and of personality traits to predispose
employees to seeking meaningful relationships in the work place are
important discourse in the literature on organisational behaviour.
Taking
this fact into consideration, the present study aimed at examining the
influence of work environment and personality traits on interpersonal
relationships among employees.
1.4 Objectives Of The Study
The
general objective of this study is to investigate the relationship
between work environment, big 5 personality traits, and interpersonal
relations.
The specific objectives of this study are as follows:
(1) To determine the relationship between work environment and interpersonal relationship.
(2) To investigate the relationship between openness and interpersonal relationship.
(3) To examine the relationship between conscientiousness and interpersonal relationship.
(4) To observe the relationship between extraversion and interpersonal relationship.
(5) To investigate the relationship between agreeableness and interpersonal relationship.
(6) To investigate the relationship between neuroticism and interpersonal relationship.
1.5 Significance Of The Study
This study is important for the following reasons:
Interpersonal
relationships have significant impact on productivity among employees.
Positive interpersonal relationships enhance cooperation among workers
and lead to achievement of organisational goals in due time. More so,
management does not spend time on resolving conflict when interpersonal
relationships are positive and beneficial. Thus, this study, by
exploring the roles of two possible determinants of interpersonal
relationships (work environment and personality traits) provides insight
into better management practice.
Consequently, in the presence of
positive interpersonal relationships turnover intentions are reduced as
employees feel they are part of one big family. Successful organisations
have succeeded in retaining their best talents by giving a sense of
belongingness to them.
Personality traits are individual factors
which employers cannot change, per se. nevertheless, they can be used in
determining placements for individuals in different segments of
organisations. On the other hand, the work environment can be improved
with the aim of fostering positive interpersonal relationships. This
study highlights this points by investigating the roles played by work
environment and personality.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Studies have shown that in as much as there are more than one person who work in an Organisation, interpersonal relationship is about the most important factor in the productivity and success of such Organisation. The objective of this study therefore is to examine the influence of Personality factors and work environment on interpersonal relationship at work.A survey research design was adopted using a total sample of one hundred and eighty-one employees, across different industries in Lagos. T ... Continue reading---
