© JUN 2019 | IRE Journals | Volume 2 Issue 12 | ISSN: 2456-8880 IRE 1701285 ICONIC RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING JOURNALS 86 Impact of Personality Traits on Employees’ Job Performance in Batticaloa Teaching Hospital VIANNY JENISTON DELIMA Business and Management Studies, Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University, Sri Lanka Abstract- The impact of Personality traits on the Job performance of employees is absolutely clear and many organizations use this effect on their employees. Personality is one of the major psychological factors affecting the human behavior. It is important in the work place. In psychology, the five personality traits are five broad domains or dimensions of personality. Personality traits have an important role in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of employee’s job performance. The findings states that Personality traits positively correlated with Job performance and Conscientiousness is having attributes that directly relates to Job performance of employees with highest weights. Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness have positive and significant impact on Job performance of employees and Neuroticism has negative and significant impact on Job performance of employees. Index Terms- Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness, Personality Traits, Job Performance I. INTRODUCTION The successful organizations are towards the improvements in the today’s competitive environment, the excellence of the organizations, their performance and human resources have become very significant. The firms consider the human resource as one of their main resources and they should take proper actions and implement strategies to achieve their objectives in terms of the human resources. The skillful and efficient human resources are the most valuable wealth of each country. Regardless of the many natural resources owned by communities, who might have lack the proficient employees and have no ability to utilize their facilities (Shekarkan, 1997). The economists also believe that the human resources of a company are the main factors in developing the economics and social topics. The human resources aggregate the funds, exploit the natural resources, create economic and social and political organizations and finally increase the national development. The country in which the skills and knowledge of the individuals are not developed, the national economy is not capable of efficient exploitation. Personality is that pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that distinguishes one person from another and that persists over time and situation (Phares, 1991). Employees’ personality is very important to every organization. In psychology, the five dimensions of personality provides a clear conceptual and measurement framework for research into personality and that are used to describe human personality. The greatest achievement of firms does not only depend on employee’s skills and capability but also on the different personality traits. Traits are fundamental building blocks of any personality. The Personality traits are Conscientiousness- hardworking, careful, thorough, responsible, organized, persevering; Extraversion- sociable, talkative, gregarious, assertive, active, ambitious and expressive; Agreeableness- courteous, flexible, trusting, good natured, cooperative, forgiving, soft hearted, and tolerant; Neuroticism- anxious, depressed, angry, embarrassed, emotional, worried, and insecure; and Openness to experience- imaginative, cultured, curious, original, broad minded, intelligent and artistically sensitive. Those have been found to consistently describe personality of employees (Barrick & Mount, 1991)