Personality has been widely discussed in HRM field. What kind of personality could drive human beings to achieve higher task performance in organization has been interested to researchers. From previous researches indicated personality affects a person's performance in jobs. Therefore, this research adopt the Big Five Model from Costa & McCrac (1986) including Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and the task performance from Borman & Motowidlo (1993) to measure how the degree that the employee could support the core technique in organization. In data analysis, adopt the Pearson correlation and multiple-regression, to investigate the relationship between personality and task performance on pharmacist. The researchers found that Conscientiousness is most correlated to contextual performance, correlation coefficient is 0.594, and predict the task performance up to 44.5%. The researchers recommend person with Conscientiousness for recruiting pharmacist to increase task performance.
Personality has been widely discussed in HRM field. What kind of personality could drive human beings to achieve higher task performance in organization has been interested to researchers. From previous researches indicated personality affects a person's performance in jobs. Therefore, this research adopt the Big Five Model from Costa & McCrac (1986) including Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and the task performance from Borman & Motowidlo (1993) to measure how the degree that the employee could support the core technique in organization. In data analysis, adopt the Pearson correlation and multiple-regression, to investigate the relationship between personality and task performance on pharmacist. The researchers found that Conscientiousness is most correlated to contextual performance, correlation coefficient is 0.594, and predict the task performance up to 44.5%. The researchers recommend person with Conscientiousness for recruiting pharmacist to increase task performance.