Predicting Job Performance, Organizational Commitment and Achievement Motivation based on Myers-Briggs Personality Dimensions

Abstract

Introduction and Aim: Personality dimensions can play an effective role in predicting job performance, organizational commitment, and achievement motivation of employee. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aimof predicting job performance, organizational commitment, and achievement motivation based on Myers-Briggs personality dimensions.

Methodology: This study was a cross-sectional from type of correlation. The population of the present research was 1058 people of employees of banks of Kashan city. To determine the sample size was used Krejcie and Morgan table, which based on the sample size was calculated 282 people and this number of employees were selected by simple random sampling method. In this study to collect data were used the Job Performance Questionnaire (Paterson & Husband, 1970), Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (Porter et al., 1974), Achievement Motivation Questionnaire (Hermans, 1970), and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Myers, 1962). The data of this study were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with enter model in SPSS-25 software at a significance level of 0.05.

Findings: The results of the present research indicated that Myers-Briggs personality dimensions significantly were able to predict 62 percent of job performance changes, 40 percent of organizational commitment changes, and 29 percent of achievement motivation changes in bank employees (P<0.001).

Conclusion: According to the findings of the present research, to increase and enhance job performance, organizational commitment, and achievement motivation of bank employees can be taken by improving personality dimensions.