HR Report: Management 37, Five Factor Model, Commitment, and Behavior

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Five Factor Model (FFM), exploring its impact on organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and intrapreneurial behavior within organizations. It delves into the five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability, examining their influence on employee behavior and performance. The report investigates the relationships between these traits and key organizational outcomes, such as employee commitment and job satisfaction. It also discusses the importance of the FFM in understanding individual characteristics and predicting workplace behaviors. Furthermore, the report explores the interplay between the FFM and intrapreneurial behavior, highlighting how personality traits affect an employee's willingness to innovate and take initiative. Through a detailed examination of these concepts, the report aims to provide insights into how organizations can leverage personality traits to enhance employee engagement, improve job satisfaction, and foster a more productive work environment. It also considers the practical implications of the FFM for recruitment, assessment, and overall human resource management strategies.

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Executive Summary
The report helps in understanding the different aspects in the human resource management in
the organizations. There are different traits of personality of the individuals in the
organization that are having huge impact on the organizational commitment of the employees
in the organization as well. The report helps in identifying the different aspects of the five
personality traits of the individuals in the organization as well as on the job satisfaction of the
employees. The relationship between the five factor model as well as the intrapreneurial
behavior of the employees in the organization has been explained in the later sections in the
report as well.
The main aim and purpose of the report is to analyze the issues and effects of the five factor
model or the big five personality traits of the employees in the entire organization. The report
deals with the relationship between the five personality traits of the individuals along with the
organizational commitment as well as the job satisfaction of the employees in the entire
organization as well. The main purpose of the report is to analyze the importance of the five
factor model in the organization. The five factor model will help in analyzing the theories
related to extraversion, openness to experience as well as the conscientiousness of the
employees in the organizations.
The conclusion will be based on the analysis of the different relationships of the five factor
model with the organizational commitment of the employees in the organization. The
intrapreneurial behavior of the employees will have positive relationship with the big five
traits of the individuals in the organization as well. Lastly, proper ascertainments have to be
made as this will help in understanding the different intellects of the individuals as well.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Five Factor Model......................................................................................................................4
Importance of Five Factor Model..............................................................................................5
Openness to experience..........................................................................................................6
Conscientiousness..................................................................................................................7
Extraversion...........................................................................................................................7
Agreeableness........................................................................................................................7
Emotional Stability.................................................................................................................8
Analysis of the five personality traits.........................................................................................8
Effect of FFM on intrapreneurial behavior................................................................................9
Relationship between five personality traits and job satisfaction............................................11
Findings....................................................................................................................................12
Deviations at the workplace due to five personality traits.......................................................12
Performances in the workplace............................................................................................13
Absences..............................................................................................................................13
Effect of Five Factor Model on Organizational Commitment.................................................18
Analysis of the organizational commitment along with the five factor model........................19
Relationship between three models of organizational commitment........................................20
Different research studies.........................................................................................................20
Characteristics of the five factor model in personality traits...................................................22

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Importance of the Five Factor Model.......................................................................................25
Combination between Cognitive ability and Conscientiousness.............................................28
Importance of Intrapreneurial Behavior...................................................................................29
Importance of Organizational Commitment............................................................................31
Conclusion................................................................................................................................35
References................................................................................................................................36

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Introduction
The report helps in understanding the proper definition of Big Five Personality Traits
that are required in order to define the individual characteristics. The Big Five Personality
Traits helps in analysis of the personalities towards five main dimensions that includes
openness, agreeableness, Neuroticism, extraversion as well as conscientiousness. The effect
of the Five Factor Model helps in analyzing the usage of the personality traits in determining
the different factors that affects the behavior of individuals in the daily life. The report also
helps in discussing about the proper effect of Five Factor model on the intrapreneurial
behavior of the individuals.
The main aim of the report is to understand the importance of the Five Personality
Traits in the behavior of the individuals. The proper theories and models has to be discussed
as this will help in analyzing the importance of the personality traits of the individuals and it
will help in analyzing the importance of organizational commitment as well. The main
purpose of the assignment is to analyze the importance of the intrapreneurial behavior of the
individuals in the organization. The intrapreneurial behavior of the individuals has to be
properly linked with the Five Factor Model that will help in analyzing the effect of the
linkage between the FFM as well as intrapreneurial behavior of the individuals as well.
The structure of the report includes the effect of Five Personality Traits on the
behavior of the individuals in the entire world. The effect of FFM on the intrapreneurial
behavior has to be analyzed that will help in providing a brief idea on the importance of
organizational commitment of the individuals in the different organizations as well. Lastly,
the link between FFM and organizational commitment is essential as to understand the usage
of personality traits in the organizations as well as in daily life (Salas and Iwig 2016).

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Five Factor Model
The Five Personality Traits is essential and it helps in describing the different
individual characteristics that are cognitive, behavioral as well as emotional aspects of the
individuals in different organizations or in day-to-day life as well. The personality traits have
become famous and help in the process of recruitment as well as in assessment that are done
personally.
According to Rhoades (2014), the big five personality traits of the individuals, it helps
in working multifunctional way as this helps in representing different personality trait
theories that will have the same kind of framework. The Big Five Personality Traits is
making huge and remarkable progress as this will help in analyzing the different attitudes of
the individuals at workplace as well as in the normal life.
The Big Five Personality Traits helped in highlighting the different dimensions of the
respective model that are discussed as follows:
 Openness to different kinds of experiences is one trait wherein it describes the
different individuals who have interest in different kinds of things such as proper as
well as accurate expression of emotions, feelings, ideas as well as ideas of different
things (Reb, Narayanan and Chaturvedi 2014).
 Conscientiousness is another trait that helps in describing the individuals who have
the tendency in order to showcase their discipline as well as performing the works in
proper order as well. This is the trait wherein it helps in understanding the personal
achievement starving in the different individuals (Seibert and DeGeest 2017).
 Agreeableness is the trait wherein this helps in describing the type of individuals who
trust others easily and they are straightforward in nature as well. These are the

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different kinds of individuals who are tender mindedness as well as they are
cooperative in nature with other individuals as well.
 Neuroticism is the type of trait that helps in describing the kind of individuals or
person who feel too much anxiety as well as they get angry, depressed as well as they
are self conscious in nature.
 Extroversion is the kind of trait wherein the individuals treat the others in the
organization or outside as well with proper warmth and they try to maintain positive
emotions in the organization as well. These are the kind of individuals who tries to
seek simulation while companying other individuals in the entire organization (Power
and Pluess 2015).
Importance of Five Factor Model
While there are different employees in the organizations, who evaluates the
performance of the employees in the organization regarding the different skills as well as
knowledge regarding different issues that are faced by them in the organization. The big five
traits helps in understanding the different factors regarding the characteristics of the
individuals in the organizations (Skarmeas, Lisboa and Saridakis 2016). The personalities of
the individuals are the most essential element that has to be properly analyzed as this will
help in analyzing the characteristics of the individuals that are possessed by them.
The five factor model of the personality traits help in analyzing the different factors
that is known as OCEAN (Smith, Rees and Murray 2016). The individuals who do not
exhibit the proper as well as clear picture of their self in front of other individuals have to be
properly understood by the organizations. This will help the organizations as well to
understand the different characteristics and analyze the behavior on the same basis as well.
The Big Five Personality Traits Model helps in comprehending the relationship between the

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academic behaviors as well as the personality of the individuals as well. The descriptions of
the different personality traits are described as follows:
Openness to experience
The openness to experience is defined as the general appreciation that has been
provided to the individuals for art, adventure, emotion as well as unusual ideas or the kind of
curiosity of the individuals for the different situations as well. The individuals who are open
to different kind of ideas and intellectually curious in nature as well are the ones who are
openness to different kinds of challenges that are faced by them in the organization. There are
different kind of individuals who are willing to try different things at workplace and in the
day-to-day life (Sovacool et al. 2017).
These are the different kind of individuals in the organization who are open to
different kind of challenges and this will help them in being more creative as well as aware
about the different feelings perceived by them as well. There are different kinds of
individuals in the organization who score high on the openness test and this helps in
providing them the scope to enjoy different kinds of experiences as well. The openness to
experience helps in flashing the different level of the intellectual curiosity of the individuals
in the organization.
This can be elaborated as the scope wherein the individual is independent or
imaginative in their thoughts and this helps in portraying the personal preference of the
individuals for different kinds of activities over a scheduled routine (Spain, Harms and
LeBreton 2014). It even includes curiousness or inventiveness that is contrast to the
cautiousness or consistency as well. The openness to experience helps in analyzing the
appreciation for different positive emotions as well as adventure unusual ideas along with
other variety of the activities that is invited.

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Conscientiousness
This is defined as the tendency of the individuals in being standardized in nature and
this will help in analyzing the characteristics of the individuals who are focused on the goals
as well as prioritizing the different activities according to the importance of the tasks. This is
the personality trait that helps in understanding the behavior of the individuals about the
efficiency that is required wherein the individuals are honest as well as cautious in nature.
This is the kind of personality trait wherein proper planning is required as it is essential in
nature and it is helpful in solving such issues as well (Peng et al. 2016). It helps in contrasting
with the organized as well as efficient behavior or the careless behavior of the individuals.
(Stoughton, Thompson and Meade 2013).
Extraversion
This is the kind of trait of the personality of the individuals in the organization that
helps in understanding the tendency of the individuals of being cooperative as well as this
will help in generating positive energy as well as tendency of the individuals to explore
stimulation in the organization as well. These individuals contradict with the energetic or the
reserved kind of behavior of the individuals in the organization. The individuals in the
organization are the ones who are experiencing positive emotional feeling as well as the other
qualities that will help in making the individuals more influential in nature (Turró, Urbano
and Peris-Ortiz 2014).
Agreeableness
This kind of the personality trait will help in understanding the different tendencies of
being compassionate and cooperative in nature. This is the proper method of measuring the
helpful as well as trusting behavior of the individuals in the workplace as well. This is the
kind of personality trait that helps in analyzing that the individuals in the organization has the

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proper tendency to get along with the other individuals in the organization as well (Park, Kim
and Krishna 2014).
Emotional Stability
This is the kind of behavior or the trait that will help in contradicting with the nervous
or the sensitive nature of the individuals in the organization. The attitude of being bias
towards the other individuals in the organization will help in understanding the unpleasant
emotions of the individuals such as depression, anxiety as well as other vulnerabilities of the
individuals in the respective organization as well (Orchard, Sindakis and Ribiere 2014).
Analysis of the five personality traits
From the different personality traits of the individuals in the organization, it can be
analyzed that empathy is important as well as essential in nature in order to understand the
relationship between empathy and the big five personality traits of the individuals in the
organization. According to Zgheib (2017), the five-factor model of personality traits of the
individuals in the organization is useful in nature, as this will help in describing the different
personalities of the individuals in the different organizations.
The five-factor model of the personality traits of the individuals in the organization
helps in understanding the different correlation between the five personality traits of the
individuals along with the organizational commitment and intrapreneurial behavior of the
individuals towards the achievement of the organizational goals as well (Zajac et al. 2014).
The five-factor model of the individuals helps in understanding the different assumptions of
the trait theory. The trait theory is based on the different assumptions of the individuals in the
organization wherein the five personality traits of the individuals in the organization are
disjunctive as well as conjunctive in nature.

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Effect of FFM on intrapreneurial behavior
Intrapreneurship is the kind of behavior that is embodying taking different kinds of
risks as well as help in radical innovation of the product as well. The activities that are related
to Intrapreneurship behavior helps in improving the growth of the organization and this will
enhance the profitability of the organization as well (Zopiatis, Constanti and Theocharous
2014).
Intrapreneurship is becoming popular in nature as this will become the concern for
different organizations and this will have huge impact on the growth of the organization as
well. Due to gaining competitive advantage in the competitive market, it is essential for the
organizations to follow the intrapreneurial activities (Wille and De Fruyt 2014).
The extrovert individuals are warm, energetic as well as enthusiastic in nature as this
will help them in feeling motivated about the different kinds of tasks that are performed by
them. The extroversion is related to the intrapreneurial behavior that is positive in nature. The
individuals who are extrovert in nature tries to find different ways that will help them in
coping up with different ideas for the different problems that has been caused to them rather
than just walking away from the problems (Wihler et al. 2017). The hypothesis statement
helps in understanding that the there is a positive correlation between the extroversion as well
as intrapreneurial behavior in the organizations.
Furthermore, agreeable is the trait that is wherein the individuals in the organization
are cooperative as well as trustworthy in nature. These are the individuals who are good-
natured and they are tolerant about the different activities that have to be followed by them.
These kinds of individuals are more inclined towards the helping of other individuals in the
organization and this helps them in creating proper communication process in the entire
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agreeableness has a negative effect on the intrapreneurial behavior and they are correlated
negatively (Wayne et al. 2013).
Before approaching towards the argument that is relating to the personality traits as
well s the Intrapreneurship behavior wherein the terms has to be properly defined and this
will help in analyzing the hypothesis between the five personality traits along with the
intrapreneurial behavior. According to Oh and Wee (2016), personality is defined as the
psychology of the personality that helps in determining the behavior as well as the forms of
the personality that helps in describing the individual best. There are different kinds of
personality traits wherein few of them are positively related to each other and there are few
that are negatively related to one another.
There are different kinds of researchers who had described the risk taking as well as
the innovativeness as dimensions of the Intrapreneurship activities in the organizations.
Furthermore, it is noticeable that Intrapreneurship behavior has been given equal importance
as that of the organizational behavior as both are equally important in nature and this will
help in understanding the different dimensions of the Intrapreneurship behavior as well.
Proper development of hypothesis is conducted as this will help in understanding as well as
analyzing the issues and this will help in sorting the issues with proper hypothetical
statements and views as well (Northouse 2015).
Similarly, agreeableness is another trait of personality that includes trust, cooperative
as well as courteous behaviors. These kinds of individuals tend to be good-natured,
considerate as well as tolerant in nature. However, in contrary to this, there are different
individuals who score much less on the particular trait that are manipulated, suspicious as
well as self-centered in nature. The different creative as well as innovative ideas are regarded
as challenge to the status quo and this will interrupt the relations that are interpersonal in