A Study on the Personality Traits of Managers and Supervisors in Private Sectors
| Main Author: | Than Chein |
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| Format: | Article eJournal |
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, 2019
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3547099 |
Daftar Isi:
- The purpose of this paper is to identify the different personality of managers and supervisors and to explore some differences among different type of functional fields. A Personality Trait Inventory (PTI) was used in this research. This questionnaire was constructed only based on the trait approach. It comprised eight domains of personality traits (Assertiveness, Sociability, Achievement Oriented, Cooperativeness, Stress Tolerance, Adaptability, Initiativeness, and Dominance). Item analysis study and reliability analysis study were done and they were quite satisfied results. The Chronbach Alpha (α) for eight sub- scales were .51 to .68 and the test-retest reliabilities were .66 to .87. One hundred and forty eight managers and supervisors from both service and manufacturing job were selected as the sample of this research. Data were analyzed by Pearson Coefficient Correlation and using t test, with the aid of SPSS software at p ≤ .05 level. The findings showed that the traits measured were positively correlated each other, but Cooperativeness was correlated with only Adaptability and Initiativeness. Male managers and female managers significantly differed on the traits of Assertiveness, Sociability, and Stress Tolerance. There were significantly differences on the traits of Stress Tolerance and Adaptability between managers from services oriented jobs and those from manufacturing oriented jobs. There were no different personality traits between office/HR managers, sale & marketing managers, finance managers and production managers. But managers from office/HR, finance, sale & marketing and production departments were significantly different those from Warehouse on the trait of Dominance. Moreover production managers were also significantly different those from finance on the Dominance trait. All differences were significant at .05 to .001 levels. Finally it can be concluded that there were some differences, but not the all, between service job and manufacturing job and across functional fields of sales, production, finance, warehouse and office/HR. Moreover this research suggests that more research will be necessary to conduct regarding the personality and other related organizational factors.