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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1339305

Organizational Communication Satisfaction as a Moderator between the Big Five Personality and Job Satisfaction among Employees in Nigeria

Provisionally accepted
Ibrahim Horoub Ibrahim Horoub 1*Yosra Jarrar Yosra Jarrar 2Lujain Ammar Lujain Ammar 2Gabriel Nweke Gabriel Nweke 3Adebola Aderibigbe Adebola Aderibigbe 4
  • 1 Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, Palestine
  • 2 American University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • 3 Girne American University, Kyrenia, Cyprus
  • 4 Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria

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    This study focuses on understanding the relationship between job satisfaction and the big five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, with the moderation of organizational communication. Taking into consideration the recent evaluation of traits within employees in the workplace, both within the positive and negative notions, this study aims to further explore the effect of the major five personality traits to help better understand which could boost and strengthen the workplace society in recent times, where wellbeing is fluctuating. The study uses the convenience sampling technique on employees of Bowen University in Nigeria to discover the relationship between job satisfaction and the big five personality traits with organizational communication as the moderator. The independent variables of the study are personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism while the dependent variable is job satisfaction, and the organizational communication satisfaction will serve as the moderator variable. The study's findings showed a positive relationship between job satisfaction and openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, and agreeableness, however, discovered a negative relationship between job satisfaction and neuroticism. In addition, the study found a positive relationship between organizational communication satisfaction and job satisfaction. As a moderator, the findings presented a positive role of organizational communication satisfaction in moderating the connection between openness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism with job satisfaction, but was not supported within its moderating between openness and job satisfaction, as well as within conscientiousness and job satisfaction. The study overall confirmed the effect of the big five personality traits on job satisfaction with connection to organizational communication satisfaction.

    Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Openness, conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, neuroticism, Organizational communication satisfaction

    Received: 22 Nov 2023; Accepted: 20 May 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Horoub, Jarrar, Ammar, Nweke and Aderibigbe. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Ibrahim Horoub, Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, Palestine

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