Relationship Betweenbig Five Personalitytraits and Adaptive Performance: A Conceptual Perspective in Malaysia Healthcare Sector

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework on the personality traits and adaptive performance of nurses working at the public hospitals in Malaysia. Current paper is intended to examine the relationship between personality traits using Big Five personality elements and its impact to adaptive performance. Moreover, five personality traits have been used as independent variables which are “openness to experience, emotional stability, conscientiousness, agreeableness and extraversion”. Adaptive performance acts as a dependent variable. The findings of the study are supported by the personality theories which is Affective Event Theory (AET). It is assumed to form significant relationship between the personality traits and adaptive performance. For a practical implication, intense focus should be stressed to the factors that can increase employees’ performance especially in public sector to assure the employees is performed well and can deliver the best service to customers. Social implication for this study is the application of adaptive performance will drive to harmonious working environment which can influence to healthy social life, and practice fast respond to reduce the patients’ complaints regarding staff performance in public hospitals.

Association Between Career Development and Readiness to Change with Adaptive Performance: A Preliminary Study Among Lecturers

“…Adaptive performance is a vital component for all employees across different sectors, thereby reflecting it to be worthwhile for further understanding (Shahidan et al, 2017;Shoss et al, 2020) specifically in the education industry. For this exact intent and purpose, the current study was conducted in order to establish the reliability of adaptive performance's instrument and identify the association between readiness to change and career development with adaptive performance in the context of lecturers employed in one of the higher institutions in Malaysia.…”

“…In particular, several scholars (e.g. Iskandar & Burhan, 2018;Guan & Madihie, 2014;Nawawi & Halim, 2013;Shahidan et al, 2017) have recognised the importance of identifying its predicting factors in a specific context, such as among psychology officers (Nawawi & Halim, 2013) and professional officers (Guan & Madihie, 2014). Therefore, in consideration of adaptive performance as a separate dimension of individual work performance, the development of its construct, and its application that has gained attention from scholars locally, it is worthwhile to validate the multidimensional scale of adaptive performance usage in terms of Malaysia, specifically among lecturers in higher institutions.…”

“…Furthermore, the areas of adaptive performance have been extensively investigated by many scholars specialised in organisational behaviour (e.g. Bravo & Ostos, 2020;Park & Park, 2019;Shahidan, Hamid, & Ahmad, 2017). The dimension is also heavily studied by industrial practitioners due to the increasing demands for all industries to be capable of coping with the current economic requirements (i.e.…”

“…Besides, Malaysian-based scholars have typically concentrated more on studies of adaptive performance for the domestic population (Arshad & Malik, 2015;Shahidan et al, 2017). Hence, there is scholarly demand (Bibi, 2020) to further explain the conceptualisation of adaptive performance particularly the need to use multidimensional scale in assessing conceptualisation of adaptive performance.…”