A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON CONSCIENTIOUSNESS AS ONE OF THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND AN ASPECT OF OCB

Abstract

Each individual carries a personality which has been developed by basically three factors such as inheritance, upbringing and social surroundings. This personality defines the behaviour, performance and attitude of an individual at the workplace. In the extant literature it has been proved that the personality positively impacts the contextual performance, job performance and extra role performance of an individual and hence as a result the organizational performance. Numerous studies have been conducted to understand the relationship of these two in various contexts. However, in recent literature, the conscientiousness has not been studied as a dimension of personality which drives the employees to showcase the organizational citizenship behaviour. In this paper we try to address this gap by studying conscientiousness as the dimension of personality of an individual and as a dimension of OCB. We aim to understand the role of conscientiousness in personality and OCB. We also aim to understand the interplay of conscientiousness and OCB, various relationships that have been studied with reference to the conscientiousness and OCB. This is a concept paper with the existing literature as a base of study.