TITLE:
Personality Mapping: Tool to Analyze Achievement Orientation
AUTHORS:
Ekta Sharma
KEYWORDS:
Achievement Motivation; Personality; Big 5 Traits; Conscientiousness; Extraversion; Agreeableness
JOURNAL NAME:
iBusiness,
Vol.5 No.2,
June
27,
2013
ABSTRACT: Personality can affect an individual’s motivation towards achievements. The analysis of personality can help
recruiter to know the motives of the candidate and hence, would help in making
right choice. Therefore, the current study focuses on the analysis of
personality traits which affect the achievement motivation. The sample includes
168 working professsionals
from diverse backgrounds. The study shows that the achievement motivation is a
function of the Big five traits. As per the five factors model of personality
people high on conscientiousness are considered as an organized, focused and
timely achiever of their goals. They tend to be workaholic and are
self-disciplined, confident, dutiful and reliable. So, the result of the research
that conscientiousness is significantly related to achievement motivation seems
self explanatory.