Examining Role of Personality in Professional Success in South Asian Employees

Abstract

Recent studies suggest that 45% of millennials are not satisfied with their jobs. In India alone 80% percent of employees are not satisfied with their jobs. Employees feel that certain factors like frequent technological advances fear of losing jobs, relations with colleagues, work-life balance etc. However, a lot depends on how a person takes it, personality is considered as a determining factor in defining career success of employees’. This study investigates the relationship between an individual’s personality traits from the Big Five model and professional success. Career success is categorized as intrinsic success consisting career satisfaction, and extrinsic which includes income, status, or position of an employee.