Research Proposal: Motivation and Further Study

ReSEARCH PROPOSAL: MOTIVATION AND FURTHER STUDY Student’s Name Course Professor’s Name University City (State) Date Research Proposal: Motivation and Further Study Introduction Personality is a set of behaviours or characteristics exhibited by an individual that dictates his or her feelings, thoughts and actions. It has for a long time been believed that personality affects the performance of an individual at the workplace. Various studies have been conducted to find the relationship between personality and job performance. Most scholars have devoted their time to study the importance of personality and determine how it impacts the performance of the employees. The studies have been vital as they decide which kind of motivation the managers have to give their employees to improve productivity. Literature Review Personality influences all the aspects of a person's job performance, and how they react to different situations on the workplace. Not every type of personality can fit in every job position. Therefore, it is essential for managers to pair the employees’ character with the job description that suits him or her personality for better performance. According to Judge and Zapata (2015), personality traits correlate with occupational or job performance. All the dominant personality traits are predictive of the performance and job satisfaction by the individuals who possess them. The study conducted by Yang and Hwang in 2014 showed that the jobs that require excellent social skills are better suited for the extroverted personality. Work description that requires agreeableness and a high degree of innovation and creativity also require extroverted personality traits. Adaptive performance at the workplace is another important aspect of employees that can be predicted by personality traits of an individual. Many studies have been conducted to determine whether the degree of job adaptability correlates to the type of personality. Huang et al. 2015 analysed emotional stability, openness an ambition between the introverts and extroverts and found out that extroverts possess a higher degree of these qualities than their introverted counterparts. Work adaptability is mainly rooted in openness, ambition and emotional stability which led to the conclusion that extroverted people can well adapt to the change of job description better than introverts. Job positions like the managerial level require a high degree of ambitiousness and adaptability which means that extroverted people would best fit such posts. As a result of various work demands, employers seek to employ those individuals who exhibit such attributes as openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and creativity — these attributes as seen as desirable across various jobs (Sackett & Walmsley, 2014). Therefore, employees look for these character traits to determine people who qualify for employment. Since the extroverts are the ones who are associated with these qualities that the employers look for in in an employee, it presents a challenge for the job seekers who are not necessarily extroverted. Employers also believe that personality type correlates to the degree of performance and that extroverted workers are better workers than the introverted ones. Contrary, a study co...