Title: Personality traits as the explaining factors of employee engagement: a study in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Authors: Duong Trong Nhan; Vo Thi Quy

Addresses: Business Administration School, International University, VNUHCMC, Ho Chi Minh City, 700000, Vietnam ' Business Administration School, International University, VNUHCMC, Ho Chi Minh City, 700000, Vietnam

Abstract: Recruiting engaged employees is a big challenge for the company's human resources department. Therefore, how to predict the engagement of candidates is a critical managerial concern and motivated us to conduct the study exploring the relationship between personality traits and employee engagement. This research is aimed to examine the extent to which the five factors of personality traits are used to explain employee engagement in Vietnamese context. Data was collected through the responses of survey questionnaires from 255 respondents in Ho Chi Minh City and processed with Smart Partial Least Squares software and Predictive Power Score calculation. The findings indicate that conscientiousness, extraversion, and intellect impact significantly and positively on employee engagement, and explain 20.9% of the variance of employee engagement. Moreover, the study also detects that the best predictor of employee engagement is conscientiousness. The research findings imply that engaged employees can be identified based on personality testing.

Keywords: personality traits; employee engagement; PLS-SEM; predictive power score; Vietnam.

DOI: 10.1504/JGBA.2023.138506

Journal for Global Business Advancement, 2023 Vol.16 No.2, pp.180 - 200

Received: 07 Dec 2023
Accepted: 11 Dec 2023
Published online: 08 May 2024 *

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