Leader's Personality Traits and Employees Job Performance in Public Sector, Putrajaya

Abstract

Abstract Considering of today's unstable economic environment, required the organization to have proactive and committed employees in performing higher standard of job performance in order to successfully survive and compete with other competitors. Employees’ job performance is one of the crucial elements that provide both goals and methods to achieve organizational mission. In view of this, effective leadership plays an important role on how the leaders response to employee in the working environment. Leaders who have an understanding of how individuals’ personalities differ can use this understanding to improve their leadership effectiveness and lead to improve employees’ job performance. The findings of this study revealed that leader's personality traits are closely related with employees’ job performance.