The Relationship between Nurses Five Personality Traits and Organizational knowledge with their Job Performance in 2016Case Study: A Trauma Hospital

Background: In today competitive world, human work force has always been aconcern for organizations, especially healthcare providers, and organizations arealways looking for improving their employees job performance. Among variousfactors affecting job performance are two factors of organization and personalitytraits of the workforce. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate therelationship between five personality traits of nurses and the organizationknowledge of their job performance.Methods: This is an analytical study conducted in a cross sectional way in 2016.Sixty one nurses working in a traumatic hospital proportional to different wardswere selected and entered the research. The instruments for collecting data werethree organizational knowledge questionnaires (35 items), five personality traits(60 items), and job performance (15 items). Data were analyzed using SPSS20 anddescriptive statistics and artificial neural networks.Results: Among demographic characteristics, variables of marital status (% 16.7)and gender (% 1.5), among aspects of organizational knowledge, two dimensionsof rewards (% 64.6) and leadership (% 4.3) and among aspects of Five-personalitytraits, accountability (% 100) and flexibility (% 11.3) had the highest and lowestimportance coefficient respectively.Conclusion: rewarding and accountability can improve nurses job performance.Therefore, hospital managers can help to improve their nursing performance byusing appropriate rewarding mechanisms, reinforcing staff accountability andemploying responsible personnel.

کلیدواژه ها:

Job Performance ، Organizational knowledge ، Personality Traits ، Trauma Hospital