Influence Of Personality Types And Gender On Job Satisfaction Among Oye-Local Government Workers

ABSTRACT

Organisational psychologists have long been interested in the concept of job satisfaction and how it affects the organisational functioning and efficiency. Today's world of competitive business environment i only likely to allow the survival of firms that can compete favourably in the global market; however the role of employee in ensuring a high level of firm competitive advantage cannot be over-emphasised. atisfied employees are likely to put every required effort to ensure speedy achievement of organisational goals and objectives. This study used a descriptive research design. This design is descriptive because the study makes use of questionnaire in gathering data from the participants on all the variables under investigations and described as they occur in the study population. Data were analyzed using SPSS. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, mean, standard deviation and variance were run to describe the subject information. The reliability analysis of the study instruments were ascertains and reported for future reference. Hypotheses I and 2 were tested using t-test for independent samples. Result revealed that who are high in Extroversion. Agreeableness, Introversion, Openness and conscientiousness were not different form workers who are low. The result further showed that Emotional Stability significantly influence job satisfaction. The result indicates that, workers who were high in Emotional stability were different from workers who were low in Emotional stability. The result showed that gender did not significantly influence job satisfaction. The result indicates that. workers who were male were not different from workers who were female as proposed.