Personality Traits and Work Engagement: A Case Study on Female Bank Employees in Banking Sector

The purpose of the present study is to explore whether there is any qualifying relationship between personality traits and work engagement, also, the level of work engagement and big five personality traits among female employees in Himachal Pradesh. Relevant data through questionnaire was collected from 150 female employees working in 3 different Public sector banks namely State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and UCO Bank in the state of Himachal Pradesh. The results of the study specified that there was a significant positive relationship between work engagement and big five personality traits. Extraversion, Agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness were significantly related to work engagement and its dimensions namely vigor, dedication and absorption whereas neuroticism was found to be negatively related to the work engagement and the three dimensions of it. The level of work engagement was high in public sector whereas extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness were average except the agreeableness trait of personality was high.