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Person job fit model proposes selection of suitable individual which contributes toward positive organizational outcomes. The organizational commitment is ajob attitude which cannot be measured during the selection process. However, its antecedents can be ascertained and may become basis for employee selection. Among several possible predictors personality could be worth measuring while hiring an individual. The personality traits are relatively stable and are linked with desirable organizational outcomes. Therefore, his study intends to explore the relationship between personality traits and organizational commitment using Big Five Inventory and Organizational Commitment Scale. Purposive sampling was employed and data were collected from 100 nationalized bank employees in Jammu city (India). Pearson's product moment method and linear regression was used to carry out the statistical analysis of the data. Positive and significant relationship has been found between extraversion and affective commitment; agreeableness and normative commitment; openness to experience and normative commitment. Negative but significant relationship between conscientiousness and continuance commitment emerged in this study. Extraversión and agreeableness are found to predict affective and normative commitment respectively. The findings have implications for human resource management.
Keywords: big five factors, organizational commitment, personality
Retaining the highly committed employees is a key to success and flourishing of an organization. Plethora of research has been carried out in the field of organizational behaviour reflecting the importance organizational commitment holds in predicting variables of interest to organizations such as job satisfaction (Cooper-Hakim & Viswesvaran, 2005), organizational citizenship behaviour (LePine, Erez, & Johnson, 2002), reduction in turnover intentions (CooperHakim & Viswesvaran, 2005; Mowday, Porter, & Steers, 2013; Meyer, Stanley, Herscovitch, & Topolnytsky, 2002), curtailment in absenteeism (Farrell & Stamm, 1988; Klein, Becker, & Meyer, 2009), and job performance (Becker & Billings, 1993; CooperHakim & Viswesvaran, 2005). The organizational commitment is a positivejob attitude which generates loyalty of an employee and acts as a propeller for employee's performance (Porter, Steers, Mowday, & Boulian, 1974). The organizations strive for retaining committed employees (Petrides & Furnham, 2006). Significance of harbouring organizational commitment directs our attention towards need for recognizing its precursors which would ensure person-environment fit (Weiner, 1982).
Among the antecedents recognized, apart from personality which is dispositional in nature, majority are situational and experiential (Choi, Oh, & Colbert, 2015). Personality is regarded as an important...