Group Assignment-Asri Bin Osman( 2015264548) and Sumaiyyah Roshidi(2015405632)

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A STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TYPE OF EMPLOYEES

WITH GENDER AND AGE DIFFERENCES2015

Arsyad Ayub Graduates Business School Page 1

A STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TYPE

OF EMPLOYEES WITH GENDER AND AGE DIFFERENCES

Asri Bin Osman

Master in Business Administration (MBA),Arshad Ayub Graduate Business School,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam,

Selangor, Malaysia

0162276625,[email protected]

Sumaiyyah Roshidi

Master in Business Administration (MBA),Arshad Ayub Graduate Business School,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam,

Selangor, Malaysia

013-3022987, [email protected]

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the research is to study the role of Personality Types,

Gender and Age difference in organization. Sample of the present research

consisted of 18 male and 22 female employees. Their minimum educational

qualification was graduation . All the respondents were individually

approached and they were requested to fill the demographic data sheet and

personality types questionnaire.. Their age range was from 20 to 39

years. They were divided into three groups according to their age, early

adulthood is from age 20 to 29 years, middle adulthood is from age 30

to 39 years and upper adulthood is from age 40 to 49 years.Personality

type, Type A and Type B personality was measured by using Job

Demand and Worker Health Survey (Shermerhorn , osborn, Uhl-Bien,
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Hunt, 2012). their ratings on large score regarding Type A (36 and

also above) and Type B Personality rating (22 and below) and Type AB

Personality the way it is thought to have combine characteristics

regarding Type The and B personalities with the total rating (23-35).

Moreover gender and age change in individuality types seemed to be

counted through the test.

1

INTRODUCTION

Our identities decide how we act and respond, and also how we interface with

and react to the world. In spite of much research, the sources of identity are still

a riddle. However numerous hypotheses endeavour to clarify them. A few

analysts suggest that youngsters take in identity from their guardians; others

trust identity is altered from conception. A few hypotheses address how

environment, hereditary qualities, and society impact the improvement of

identity. Identity sort alludes to the mental grouping of diverse sorts of

individuals. Identity sorts are recognized from identity qualities, which come in

distinctive levels or degrees. As per sort speculations, for case, there are two

basics sorts of individuals, thoughtful people and extraverts.

With reference to the consumer behavior, personality is an important factor

because the trait people possess affect the way consumers behave and prefer

products, (Gilbert. A. & Churchill, J, 1999)

Individuality is usually classified into three wide-ranging categories based onPersonality Sorts. These are generally Type A, Variety B in addition to

Type AB Individuality.

Personality features like workaholics, ambitiousness, aggressiveness,

competitiveness, drive, anxiety, need pertaining to control in addition to

unrealistic perception of emergency are conceptualized as features of Type A


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Individuality. And features for type B is relax toward their task with minimum

pressure.

According to (Friedman, M. & Rosenman, R. H. , 1974) define the Type A

personality as An action-emotion complex that can be observed in any person

who is aggressively involved in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more

and more in less and less time, and if required to do so, against the opposing

efforts of other things or other person. People characterized by moderate

ambitiousness and drive, accommodating attitude, cooperativeness, in general,

an easy going approach to life are conceptualized as Type B Personality.

It is also possible to have a mix characteristics of Type A and B personalities,which is classified as Type AB personality (www.sedona.com)

2 METHOD

2.1 Sample :

A sample of 40 employees, 18 males and 22 females were taken on the

basis of convenient sampling technique from different department butin the same company at PETRONAS Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur.

Respondents in this study were comes from various major such as

Business Administration, Finance, and Engineering. Occupation was

not recorded so as to assure respondents of anonymity. Their age range

was from 20 to 39 years. They were divided into three groups

according to their age, early adulthood is from age 20 to 29 years,

middle adulthood is from age 30 to 39 years and upper adulthood is

from age 40 to 49 years.

2.2 Materials:

2.2.1 Demographic Data Sheet:


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It included information related to employees gender,

race, age, education level, marital status and monthly

personal income.

2.2.2 Personality Type Scale

It consists of nine questions. All respondent are requested to

read each of the questions carefully and circle and give rate

for each statement that based on their true self. The

maximum score for each statement is 5 and total maximum

score is 45. Responses were totalled and compared to a

scoring key to determine personality type. Type Apersonalities tend to score 36 and above. Type B

personalities tend to score 22 and below. Scores of 23 to 35

indicate a balance or mix of Type A and Type B.

2

MEASURES

Personality type, Type A and Type B personality was measured by using

Job Demand and Worker Health Survey (Shermerhorn , osborn, Uhl-Bien,

Hunt, 2012) This scale was composed of nine items. Sample items included

I hate giving up before Im absolutely sure my work is done and I

approach my work more seriously than most people I know measured on

five-point Liker type scale ( 1 = not true at all, 3 = not true or untrue, and 5

= very true)


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3

Procedure

Individuals were approached into their company. They were being

requested to voluntarily get involved as taste and well informed that

administration of list of questions and scale will take not more than ten

minutes. Moreover most information gathered will be kept top secret. After

using consent group data bed sheet was filled up. After number of data

employees been collected and the data were being divided straight into three

groups on such basis as their ratings on large score regarding Type A (36

and also above) and Type B Personality rating (22 and below) and Type AB

Personality the way it is thought to have combine characteristics regarding

Type The and B personalities with the total rating (23-35). Moreover gender

and age change in individuality types seemed to be counted through the test.

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5 RESULTS

Pie chart 1: Personality types percentage

Personality Type N Percentage (%)

A 4 10%

B 0 0%

AB 36 90%

Total 40 100

Table 1 : Personality types percentage

Based on the pie chart its shows that 90% from 40 respondents which is 36 employees falls into

type AB personality category, while another 10% from 40 respondents which is 4 employees

falls into type A personality category.

10%0%

90%

A(36-45) B(0-22) AB(23-35)


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Pie chart 2: Percentage based on Gender

Gender N Percentage(%)

Male 18 45%

Female 22 55%

Total 40 100

Table 2: Percentage based on Gender

Based on the pie chart its shows that 45% from 40 respondents which is 18 employees represent

male. Meanwhile, another 55% from 40 respondents which is 22 employees represent female.

45%

55%

Male Female


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Pie chart 3: Percentage based on Age

Age N Percentage(%)

20 below 0% 0%

20-29 24 60%

30-39 11 27.50%

40-49 5 12.50%

50 above 0% 0%

Total 40 100

Table 2: Percentage based on Age

Based on the pie chart its shows that 45% from 40 respondents which is 18 employees represent

male. Meanwhile, another 55% from 40 respondents which is 22 employees represent female.

60%

28%

14%

20-29 30-39 40-49


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Personality types

A B AB

Gender

Male 3 0 19

Female 1 0 170

Ages

Below 20 0 0 0

20-29 3 0 21

30-39 0 0 11

40-49 1 0 4

50 and Above 0 0 0

Table 4: Numbers of employees based on gender and age according to personality types

Based on the table above, we can conclude that for the gender it shows 19 respondents

of males are belongs to personality type of AB and age range from 20 to 29 years have the

highest number of respondent that is 21 employees which they all have these mixed personality

type characteristics features of A and B such as relax and all the personality type A features

characteristics . Meanwhile, 17 of females belong to the same personality type. Minority number

of males and females belongs to personality type A, which is 3 and 1 respondent respectively

and also the highest number of respondent for type A is 3 are most likely belong to group age of

early adulthood range from 20 to 29 years where they tend to have more energy, abilities and

confident in working when making the decisions. Furthermore, they all have these characteristics

features such as workaholics, ambitiousness, aggressiveness, competitiveness, drive, anxiety

towards the organization.

6 Conclusion

Type A personality features characteristic, it will make the company perform well and easily

achieve their goals and objective but there are tendency to increase their work pressure. Type B,

they tend to becomes more relax towards their task hence lower work pressure than type A. Type

AB they tend to balance their personality type with all the features characteristic from

personality type A and B.


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Bibliography

(n.d.). Retrieved from www.sedona.com.

Friedman, M. & Rosenman, R. H. . (1974). Type 'A' behaviour and your heart . Organizational Behaviour

10th ed , 383.

Gilbert. A. & Churchill, J. (1999). Marketing research . Methodological Foundation U.S.A.

Shermerhorn , osborn, Uhl-Bien, Hunt. (2012). Personality Types . In organizational Behaviour 12th(pp.

W-51).


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APPENDIX

Your Personality Type

Instructions:

Please circle your answers. Thank you.

Section A

Statements Not

True at

All

Not True

or Untrue

Very

True

1. I hate giving up before Im

absolutely sure that my work is

done.

1 2 3 4 5

2. Sometimes I feel that I should not

be working so hard, but

something drives me on.

1 2 3 4 5

3. I thrive on challenging situations.

The more challenges I have, the

better.

1 2 3 4 5

4. In comparison to most people I

know, Im very involved in my

work.

1 2 3 4 5

5. It seems as if I need 30 hours a

day to finish all the things Im

faced with.

1 2 3 4 5

6. In general, I approach my work

more seriously than most people

I know.

1 2 3 4 5

7. I guess there are some people

who can be nonchalant about

their work, but Im not one of

them.

1 2 3 4 5

8. My achievements are consideredto be significantly higher than

those of most people I know.

1 2 3 4 5

9. Ive often been asked to be an

officer of some group or groups.

1 2 3 4 5


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Section B: Demographic Questions

Please tick on the answer that you choose. Only give one answer per question.

1. Sex:

Male Female

2.

Race:

Malay Chinese

Indians Others :

3. Age:

Under 20 4049

2029 5059

3039 60 and above

4. Education Level:

SPM Master Degree

Diploma PHD

Bachelors Degree

5. Marital Status:

Single Others

Married


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6. Monthly personal income (RM) :

Less than 1000 30014000

10002000 40015000

20013000 5001 and above

End of questions. Thank you!

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