Relationship between Personality Factors and Employee Engagement

In recent years, employee engagement has emerged as the topmost challenge for majority of the organizations. It has become very much vital for organizations to retain, develop and engage their talent to the best possible extent. Past research studies have shown that personality influences engagement of employees at the workplace. This paper primarily focuses on determination of relationship between personality factors and employee engagement among the IT sector employees. The study utilized two standardized questionnaires namely the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for the measurement of engagement and the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire for the measurement of personality. Statistical tool of Pearson correlation analysis was used to determine the strength and direction of relationship between personality factors and employee engagement. The findings of the study indicated that out of five second order factors as measured using the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, anxiety and superego control have positive relationship with employee engagement while tough poise and independence have negative relationship with employee engagement and extraversion showed no significant relationship with employee engagement.