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Personality Job-Fit
PERSONALITY JOB-FIT
Khalida Rauf
Department of Psychology
Federal Urdu University, Karachi
Abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate the
relationship between traits of ascendancy and job satisfaction
in three groups belonging to different professions. The trait
of ascendancy of 75 personnel was measured with the help of
Gordon personal Profile (Gordon,1963) and the job satisfaction
level of the same was measured with the help of the Ganguli
scale of job satisfaction (Ganguli, 1954). The personnel
included 25 faculty members,25 insurance agents and 25
medical representatives. In order to assess the relationship
of both the variables product moment correlation was
calculated. In order to assess the level of difference in the
level of ascendancy and job satisfaction of these three
groups, one way analysis of variance was calculated for each
variable. Results indicated that there was very weak inverse
correlation between the two variables, r=-.006. F value for the
variable of ascendancy is .196 p>.05 and the F value for the
variable of job satisfaction is .077 p>.05.
JEL Classification: J28, M50, 044
*An earlier version of this refereed paper was presented at the first
Business Psychology Seminar held by the Department of Business
Psychology IoBM in November, 2010
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