INTERFACE OF PERSONALITY DIMENSIONSAND JOB TURNOVER INTENTIONS: A QUANTITATIVE TEST OF UNIVERSITY STAFF (original) (raw)

Research has consistently indicated that worker turnover intentions are factors external to an employee; however, little work has investigated turnoverintention behaviour from personality perspective in a context of a private university in a low resourced country like Uganda. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interactive effect of personality dimensions and job turnover intentions among the Busoga University staff. Correlations and regression analysis methods were in the analysis. Data were collected with the aid of questionnaire based on a sample of (total N = 133). The findings revealed that apart from emotional stability (neuroticism), all the other four personality dimensions of (openness, conscientiousness, Extroversion, and agreeableness), positively and significantly predicted job turnover intentions among the staff of Busoga University in Uganda. This study contributes to knowledge of turnover intention by aligning individual personality dimensions as significant predictors of turnover intentions within the context of Busoga University. This studyunderscores the fact that workers' personality matters for organisations and can be instrumental in furthering managerial decisions relating to turnover intentions. One of study limitations was a small sample size that was less than 200 cases to support Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures) which would have been an appropriate tool to test the hypotheses considering the fact that the study had multiple constructs. Also, this study was limited to the effect that it used crosssectional design.

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