Assessment on Effect of Employees Personality on Organizational Performance in the Case of Yacob International Hotel, Wolaita Sodo

Abstract

The study was conducted in the effect of Employees Personality on Organizational Performance in the case of Yacob international hotel, Wolaita Sodo. Identifying the types of personality is mostly displayed by employees and examining the impact of personality types on organizational performance are not well studied in Yacob international hotel. The general objective of the study is to assess the effect of Employees Personality on Organizational Performance in the case of Yacob international hotel, Wolaita Sodo. Both qualitative and quantitative methods was used because mixed approach as a methodology incorporates multiple approaches in all stages of research from problem identification to research questions, data collection, and data analysis.  For this study, a simple random sampling technique was employed to select the sample of respondents.  A total of 184 samples were randomly selected from respondents. The necessary data were collected through the use of both primary and secondary sources.  Collected data were presented in a narrative form and analyzed using regression model. The result shows openness and conscientiousness has a positive and significant relationship with organizational performance and other personality types. Also both of these personality types have a positive and significant influence on organizational performance. This shows that those who have high conscientious people tend to emphasis on planning, organizing and concern about meeting deadlines and targets tend to perform better. Since this study was conducted only on one hotel, it may not be able to generalize the finding. However by conducting this research on wider context of a particular hotel at country level could confirm the findings and maybe a significant contribution to this field of study in general. Keywords: Employees Personality, Organizational Performance and Yacob international hotel

DOI: 10.7176/CER/15-1-01

Publication date: February 28^th 2023