Different OCB Reactions against the Structural Career Plateau According to Employees Personality Profiles

Abstract

This study investigates diversity of the employees' OCB reactions against job stress according to clustering by Big 5 personality traits. We using the structural career plateau as independent variable representing job stresses and only two dimensions of OCB, which are altruism and sportsmanship, are used as dependent variables. In addition, we divided respondents into four types of personality profiles, and performed the polynomial regression analyses on the each of groups. The samples are composed of 214 respondents, which are collected from the corporations of Korea. The results showed that the employees have different reactions according to their personality traits even under the same job stress.