Personality Traits and Organisational Culture: Reflecting the Impacts on Employee Commitments and performance in Selected Organisations in Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

Organisation as an important key component of any society that functions within a specific culture has become a general discourse in the contemporary debate among managers, proprietors, stakeholders and other organizational practitioners.  In order to develop an understanding of organisational cultural settings that could influence employee behaviour to perform effectively and to improve organization’s economic efficiency, this study was therefore structured to justify the influence of personality traits and organization's culture on employee's commitments and to measure the impacts of this on performance. The study adopts a field survey research; primary data were collected through oral interviews and questionnaire from the sample population in selected organizations in Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria. This study found that there is a reflection of employee personality traits and organisational culture on employee’s satisfaction and performance; hence the study recommends that more and a moderate concern should be given to employee personality, behaviors and loyalty at work and other aspects of organizational culture that might have an influence on employee performance.