The relationship of personality types: A study on the university hospital employees

In order to have an effective organization employees, as a critical resource, must be selected carefully, developed, and rewarded properly. Unless a good fit achieved between the employee and his/her job, it is difficult for the organization to achieve its objectives. In this respect, health care organizations provide very critical services, and to maintain effectiveness in their operations, there is a need to monitor employee motivation and job satisfaction, and performance effectiveness leves. On the otherhand employee personality plays important role in terms of work attitudes, job satisfaction and performance level. In fact personality characteristics are considered as predictors of behavior in the work environment. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of personality types to employee job satisfaction and performance effectiveneness level. To carry out the study 333 employees in the Çukurova University's Balcali Hospital were surveyed as to their personality types (measured by Myers-Briggs) job satisfaction and performance effectiveness. By using SPSS, survey questions classified, coded and analyzed. The findings indicated that significant relationships existed between job satisfaction and marital status, job satisfaction and education, personality and age. Likewise performance effectiveness seemed to be related age, sexuality, marital status and experience. There was also relationship between job satisfaction and performance effectiveness. Key Words: Personality, Personality Types, Motivation, Job Satisfaction and Performance.