Employee engagement of private sector employees in Southern Thailand: Big Five personality, transformational leadership, and psychological safety

This study examines the relationship between Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality (i.e, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness and neuroticism), transformational leadership and psychological safety on employee engagement.A total of 402 of private sector companies in...

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Main Authors: Jansriboot, Parichat, Mat, Norsiah, Mat, Norazuwa
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/23850/1/CBMM%202017%201213%201228.pdf
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description This study examines the relationship between Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality (i.e, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness and neuroticism), transformational leadership and psychological safety on employee engagement.A total of 402 of private sector companies in Southern Thailand participated in this study.PLS-SEM was used to analyze the data.Overall measurement model showed appropriate psychometric properties in term of reliability and validity.The propose model of this research has relied primarily on reflective measurement model.Out of the five personality factors, three proved to have an influence on employee engagement (extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience), however the influence of agreeableness and neuroticism were not supported.Transformational leadership and psychological safety also showed direct influence on employee engagement. Theoretical, practical and methodological implications of the study are highlighted.
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spelling uum-238502018-04-02T00:29:05Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/23850/ Employee engagement of private sector employees in Southern Thailand: Big Five personality, transformational leadership, and psychological safety Jansriboot, Parichat Mat, Norsiah Mat, Norazuwa HD28 Management. Industrial Management This study examines the relationship between Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality (i.e, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, agreeableness and neuroticism), transformational leadership and psychological safety on employee engagement.A total of 402 of private sector companies in Southern Thailand participated in this study.PLS-SEM was used to analyze the data.Overall measurement model showed appropriate psychometric properties in term of reliability and validity.The propose model of this research has relied primarily on reflective measurement model.Out of the five personality factors, three proved to have an influence on employee engagement (extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience), however the influence of agreeableness and neuroticism were not supported.Transformational leadership and psychological safety also showed direct influence on employee engagement. Theoretical, practical and methodological implications of the study are highlighted. 2017-10-29 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/23850/1/CBMM%202017%201213%201228.pdf Jansriboot, Parichat and Mat, Norsiah and Mat, Norazuwa (2017) Employee engagement of private sector employees in Southern Thailand: Big Five personality, transformational leadership, and psychological safety. In: 4th Conference on Business Management, 29 - 30 Oktober 2017, The Gurney Resprt Hotel & Recidences Penang, Malaysia.
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Employee engagement of private sector employees in Southern Thailand: Big Five personality, transformational leadership, and psychological safety
title Employee engagement of private sector employees in Southern Thailand: Big Five personality, transformational leadership, and psychological safety
title_full Employee engagement of private sector employees in Southern Thailand: Big Five personality, transformational leadership, and psychological safety
title_fullStr Employee engagement of private sector employees in Southern Thailand: Big Five personality, transformational leadership, and psychological safety
title_full_unstemmed Employee engagement of private sector employees in Southern Thailand: Big Five personality, transformational leadership, and psychological safety
title_short Employee engagement of private sector employees in Southern Thailand: Big Five personality, transformational leadership, and psychological safety
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
url https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/23850/1/CBMM%202017%201213%201228.pdf
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