IMPACT OF BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS ON WORK LIFE BALANCE OF MANAGERIAL LEVEL EMPLOYEES IN SEMI GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN AMPARA DISTRICT, SRI LANKA

Abstract

Personality plays an important role in work life balance irrespective of the organizational setups and other factors. Personality traits have become one of the major themes that emerged with this background. Hence this study attempts to investigate the impact of big five personality traits on work life balance of managerial level employees of semi government organizations in Ampara district, Sri Lanka. Five hypotheses were developed based on the conceptual framework which was derived from the literatures. The population of the study was randomly selected from the sample of eighty managerial employees in semi government organizations in Ampara district by administering a questionnaire. The data was analyzed with univariate, bivariate and regression tools of analysis. The results show that there is a significant positive relationship between personality traits and work life balance. This study indicates that openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion agreeableness and neuroticism are positively impact on work life balance of managerial employees of semi-governmental sector organizations in Ampara district, Sri Lanka. The main recommendation is suggested to carry out to find out the impact of broad range of personality traits on work life balance of employees in the organizations. Findings suggested for the semi government organizations to pay their devotion on big five personality traits when engaging in management of balance between work and family of their managerial level employees. This will be helpful in achieving organization objectives by balancing work life of their managerial employees.