Personality in the Workplace: A Gender Analysis of Eysenck’s Personality Dimensions among Young Entrepreneurs in Kolkata

Personality in the Workplace: A Gender Analysis of Eysenck’s Personality Dimensions among Young Entrepreneurs in Kolkata

Dr. Mita Sengupta

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management and Commerce Department

ICFAI University Tripura

Abstract

Personality of employees is a very crucial factor in determining the success of projects and ventures in the organization. In the research, a gender based study of total 322 young entrepreneurs and self – employed individuals from Kolkata were done in order to find out alignment between their personality dimensions and success and productivity achieved by them.

For analyzing, the personality of the respondents Eysenck’s personality dimension models was used. Even though the model is popular for analyzing patients with mental disorders and criminal bent of mind, yet it was used for personality analysis of career minded professionals. The primary reason behind it is in the present times lives of professionals have become too complicated with stress both at work and at home.

So, the initiative was taken to find out whether dimensions such as extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism has any impact on performance and leadership patterns for the respondents. Further, it was analyzed in depth which gender was more prone to be more of an extrovert, a neurotic or a psychotic. The results showed that both men and women in the Eysenck’s personality model responded differently to career and professional goals. One gender was more prone to be a neurotic where as another gender was prone to be open minded and an extrovert.

Statistical techniques like Welch Anova, correlation, mean and standard deviation were used in SPSS for Windows version 20 to analyze the outcomes of the research.

Key words: extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, performance

The success of any organization depends largely on the quality of the workforce employed with the organization. The personality traits of a worker primarily drives their working style and work ethics. Personality speaks of as an individual’s distinctive and consistent pattern of behavior that is unchanging and stable over a long period (Vaidehi and Raju, 2017). Therefore, the study of personality in the workplace is extremely significant in modern times as it enables organizations to achieve optimum productivity and generate excellent performance (Darko et al. 2022).

According to Hans J Eysenck personality comprises of individual differences which forms because of genetic factors (Eysenck and Gudjonsson, 1989). Personality is therefore considered an integral and indispensable part of study of scientific investigation conducted for educational or industrial purposes (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1985).

In our current study, the dimensions of Eysenck’s personality are used to find out answers to the behavior of our respondents under study. Eysenck has identified three dimensions or super factors such as extraversion introversion, neuroticism-emotional stability and psychoticism-superego control (Eysenck, 1982).