A Study of Job Position and Personality in Organizational Setting

The present study was aimed at studying the relationship between job position and personality in the indian organizational settings. 283 officers (all men, age: 22-58 yrs) belonging to the middle management of large manufacturing units participated in the study. the officers were grouped into three job positions: low, middle and high based on their hierarchical position. the participants answered the neo five factors inventory (neo-ffi, costa & mccrae, 1992), and job in general (jig, balzer et al, 2000). the results of multivariate analysis of variance (manova) showed that job positions differed significantly on neuroticism showing lower neuroticism scores for higher job positions, f(2, 280)= 6.30 p< 0. 01. similar significant results were obtained in the case of agreeableness (f (2, 280)= 9.17 p< 0.001) where higher agreeableness scores were obtained for higher job positions and in the case of conscientiousness showing higher scores for higher job positions (f (2.280)= 6.53 p< 0.01). extraversion and openness yielded non-significant results