Relationship between personality and work engagement : the role of individual traits and international experience

• Autor(a) principal: Gulamali, Danisha Ismail
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/22733
• topic: Work engagement; Big Five; Individual traits; International experience; Envolvimento no trabalho; Modelo dos Cinco Fatores; Traços de personalidade; Experiência internacional; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

To strive in today’s challenging, fast-paced and constantly changing environment, organizations need to put employees at the core of their business, as people are a fundamental asset and can either boost or damage a company. It is in this line of thought that the concept of Work Engagement has been developing and gaining more attention, since engaged employees exhibit an effective and energetic connection with their work which makes them more resilient, involved and absorbed in their tasks. This empirical study aims at understanding how the individual’s dispositional traits, conceptualized in the Big Five model – Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness to Experience - impact Work Engagement, in particular within the Portuguese context. Moreover, it also frames the concept of International Experience as a moderator variable between the positive relationship of Openness to Experience and Work Engagement. Firstly, the results indicate that some of the individual traits of the Big Five model have impact on Work Engagement, namely, Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience have a positive relation while Neuroticism has a negative relation. Secondly, it proves the positive impact of International Experience on Openness to Experience but it does not validate the extension of that relationship with Work Engagement.