11th HRM Student Research Symposium 2024
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Item IMPACT OF PERSONALITY ON JOB SATISFACTION: THE MEDIATION EFFECT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2025) Bandara Y.G.T.L.; Karunarathne, R. A. I.C.Personality and job satisfaction have become increasingly valuable concepts across theoretical and empirical domains, reflecting their critical importance in organizational behavior research. In the context of globalization, businesses around the world face unprecedented challenges in maintaining competitiveness. It significantly impacts workforce dynamics, employee perceptions, attitudes, and overall job satisfaction. Personality and psychological capital (Psycap) play an important role in predicting employee satisfaction, shaping employees' overall outlook on work and maintaining a positive mindset. Thus, understanding the interplay between personality and psychological capital is necessary for today’s organizations seeking to design effective strategies to enhance employee satisfaction in a competitive business environment. Therefore, this study aims to understand how employee personality affects job satisfaction and examines the effect of psychological capital on the relationship between personality and job satisfaction. Accordingly, this research study was conducted as a cross-sectional study with quantitative research design and data collected through a structured survey questionnaire. The population was managerial-level employees of ABC Tyre Manufacturing Company, and the sample comprises 169 managerial level employees participated in this study. Researchers used descriptive statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient, and Andrew F. Hayes' PROCESS for SPSS (v.4.3) Model 4 to test the hypotheses. The results of this study showed that personality has a significant positive impact on job satisfaction. Furthermore, the results showed that psychological capital has a significant partial mediating effect on the impact of personality on job satisfaction, indicating that the effect of personality on job satisfaction varies positively with psychological capital. Moreover, findings of the research study contribute to the persistence of existing theories and the knowledge gained from this study will primarily help ABC company's organizational system to understand the personality and positive psychological capital of employees and implement evidence-based strategies that foster a satisfied/positive workforce.