Investigation of the relationship between work values and personality characteristics in production sector

The purpose of this research was to determine work values of workers who work in the production sector and analyze the relationship between work values and personality characteristics. The research was applied on the personnel from 8 different firms. In this study, the importance given to 14 work values and the most important values indicated by production sector employees, was searched. It is examined that whether personality characteristics were predictors of work values or not. Results of this study indicated that ?Achievement? was the most important work value for production sector employees and it was important for them to feel accomplishment in doing a job well. It was seen that there was a moderate level relationship between personality characteristics and work values, personality characteristics were not good predictors of work values.