Can Personality Traits Impact the Organization Culture?
Keywords:
Personality traits, Organizational Culture, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, OCTAPACEAbstract
Organizations cannot deny that employee’s personality traits strongly impact the organizational culture in which they work and spend most of their time. This study helps to understand personality traits of an employees and its impact on organizational culture and its dimensions at the workplace. 51 management employees from one of the leading Pvt. B School in North Delhi participated in the study. The study was conducted using the Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ) which focuses on three dimensions of personality traits: Extroversion, Neuroticism and Lie Score. To measure organizational culture researcher used the instrument by Udai Pareek on openness, confrontation, trust, authenticity, pro-action, autonomy, collaboration and experimenting (OCTAPACE). The data were analysed through SPSS version 20 was subjected to descriptive analysis and correlation were used to derive the results. The results indicate that openness as a cultural dimension was strongly related to confrontation, trust, autonomy, collaboration and experimentation . The study did not establish any relation between organization culture and personality triats and it is highly likely that lie based baises have found between organization cultural dimensions on personality traits of employees and there is the high amount of bias lie while filling the questionnaire.
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