| dc.description.abstract | The study aimed at investigating the relationship between personality, stress and
counterproductive workplace behaviours among employees of Ministry of Education and Sports.
The study adopted a correlational study design with a population of 60 employees from the
human resource department. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of
52 respondents from the population. Data was collected from respondents using selfadministered
standard questionnaire and through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS)
data was entered and analyzed. Descriptive statistics showed that 51.9% of the respondents were
female and 48.1% were male, majority were between 20-30 years (48.1%). Results from Pearson
product-moment correlation coefficient (r) further indicated that there was a no significant
relationship between personality and stress (r=.210, p=.136); no significant relationship between
personality and stress (r=-.143, p=.313); and there is a significant positive relationship between
stress and counterproductive workplace behaviour (r=.401, p=.003). Thus, the findings of this
study provide several recommendations to administrators and managers of the several
organizations mostly government agencies in designing policies and procedures that will
determine outcomes of their staff such as reduced stress and counterproductive workplace
behaviours. Basing on the findings, organisations should therefore not discriminate individuals
based on the personality traits they have during recruitment and selection. Major concern should
be put on interventions aimed at reducing stress and counterproductive workplace behaviours.
This is because there is no significant relationship between personality and stress as well as
personality and counterproductive workplace behavior. | en_US |
