The Role of Personality Traits on Leaders’ and Employees’ Job Performance in Organizations:

Abstract

Considering of today’s competitive economic environment, required the organization to have proactive and committed employees in performing higher standard of job performance in order to successfully survive and compete with other competitors. Employees’ job performance is one of the crucial elements that provide both goals and methods to achieve organizational mission. Assessment of the role of personality traits on leaders’ and employees’ organization performance agro-industrial companies are very scant. Few studies conducted focused on the big five dimensions of namely neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. This study assessed the role of non-big five personality traits namely integrity, perseverance and decisiveness which are not emphasized in the available literature. The researcher’s understanding was guided by the Trait Theory of leadership and the Trait Theory of Personality. The study was conducted in Morogoro region, Mvomero district at Mtibwa Sugar Estate Ltd. The study design was descriptive case study. The study was qualitative in nature. Data was collected through interview and documentary review. Thematic analysis was used in analysing data.