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

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.