INTEGRATING THE TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS AS AN ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE TO THE TRIANGLE OF PERSONALITY, JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

Abstract

A successful job environment is believed to be created when individual interests are put aside for the sake of obtaining mutual benefits. At this point, providing job satisfaction and organizational commitment is essential. The present research is conducted through the hypothesis that personality predicts these two factors and then seeks to reveal this effect. Big Five Personality Model and Transactional Analysis are used for evaluating the personality factor. The analysis is conducted across the data collected from 304 employees. The results suggest that there is a link between some dimensions of ego involvement and the dimensions of organizational commitment and that some dimensions are negatively associated. It is argued that some ego involvement dimensions and job satisfaction dimensions are negatively related while some other has a favorable relationship. Likewise some job satisfaction dimensions have prediction effect over organizational commitment dimensions. When the moderation is tested, respecting the interaction between variables, it is concluded that job satisfaction has a mediation effect over the relation between personality and organizational commitment

Keywords

• Personality, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Transactional Analysis

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