Effects of the employee's job position on the corelation between job satisfaction and personality dimensions

Abstract

Job satisfaction represents an important predictor of achieving business success of an organization in contemporary business conditions. Hence, it is important to explore this construct, taking into account that the employees' personality dimensions influence their rating of job satisfaction. Moreover, the correlation between the dimensions of personality and job satisfaction may be also influenced by the employees' job position. Thus, the current study explores the effect of job position on the relation between personality traits and job satisfaction. The study sample consists of 116 employees of a public organization, operating in energy sector within Serbian transitional society. According to the research results, the employees' job position significantly shapes the relation between personality dimensions: neuroticism, conscientiousness and openness to new experiences and different facets of job satisfaction, such as supervision, relation with co-workers, benefits, pay and communication. The obtained results are expected to contribute to an improvement of human resource management practice within the transitional economies.