A study on the effects of personality traits, job involvement and job performance in Taiwan Information Technology industry

• Main Authors: Lin-Lin Chien, 簡鈴玲
• Other Authors: Chih-Wen Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89070632182573392308

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 國際商學碩士在職專班 === 95 === Nowadays IT industry is the major force behind global economic development. It supports Taiwan economy to grow and plays a crucial role in worldwide IT market. With the competition globally, human resource management becomes an important issue for advanced countries in the 21st century. Different from the general distributors, the distributors of components in IT industry not only recognize their own value and capability, but also aggressively strengthen the basic advantage. Since the semiconductor and passive components industry is with highly expertise, it makes the distributors’specialty not less than upper suppliers and shows the importance of the distributors and integral in IT industry. Since the research show that the relationship between big-five personality traits and job performance is more and more significant. It is necessary to understand the reason why workers involve their works through personality traits, and then to understand how they influence job performance. This study adopted questionnaire survey to obtain data from the sales engineers and related workers in IT industry. The purpose is (1) to explore the correlation between the two factors, personality traits and job involvement. (2) to explore whether the correlation affect the factor of job performance. SPSS software was selected to gather statistical data. The findings are (1) Extraversion and Conscientiousness are positive correlative to Job involvement. (2) The correlation of Personality traits “Openness to experience” and Job involvement is significant to affect Job performance, and the correlation of Personality traits “Conscientiousness” and Job involvement is also significant to affect Job performance.