Abstract:
Job engagement is considered as a significant topic in
organizational research due to its many effects on the overall wellbeing of the organization. One of the most important
management-focused concepts is Employee Engagement which
helps to compete and perform in a turbulent and competitive
environment in order to achieve organizational goals and
objectives. Personality is one of the antecedents to job
engagement. In this study, an attempt was made to identify the
relationship between personality and job engagement in leading
private healthcare organizations in Colombo district, Sri Lanka. A
structured questionnaire with two instruments, including 47
questions was used to test the hypotheses. This research work was
carried out covering a sample of 260 out of 800 nursing staff
attached to the leading private healthcare organizations in
Colombo district, Sri Lanka. Responses from the survey were
statistically analyzed with Pearson’s correlation coefficient and
multiple regressions using 23.0 version of SPSS software. The
results of the study expressed that there is a positive moderate
relationship between personality factors (neuroticism,
extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and
conscientiousness) and job engagement of employees. However,
Neuroticism also positively correlates with job engagement by
opposing previous research findings. On the other hand,
conscientiousness is considered as the most determinant
personality trait on job engagement. This study will help to get a
better understanding of nursing employee’s personality and its
relationship to their job engagement. This understanding can also
better inform administrators to comprehend the importance of
dispositional factor in determining job engagement.
