Personality Dimensions and Psychological Empowerment: A Perspective of Five Factors Model
Keywords:
Personality, Big five traits,, Psychological empowerment.Abstract
he conceptualization of psychological empowerment, which operationalized
empowerment from individual perspective, has made it feasible to identify individual
characteristics that boost employees’ feeling of empowerment. This research tested bigfive personality traits (i.e. one of the best measures of personality which covers a wide
range of human personality) as antecedents of psychological empowerment to clarify
which personality trait enhances employees’ feeling of empowerment. Data was collected
through self-administered Questionnaire and analyzed with different statistical
techniques. The results showed that out of the big-five personality traits Agreeableness,
openness to experience and consciousness have significant positive relationship with
Employee Empowerment. Similarly, a significant negative relationship was found
between Neuroticism and Employee Empowerment. While there was no significant
relationship between extraversion and Employee Empowerment
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