Impact of Individual Personality Traits on Organizational Commitment of IT Professionals in India: The Moderating Role of Protean Career

The research reported in this paper tests the relationship of three personality traits namely: Proactive Personality (PP), Goal Orientation (GO), Meta-skills (MS), and Organizational Commitment (OC), along with the moderating effect of Protean Career on this relationship. The data for this study were collected from a sample of 600 Indian IT professionals was analyzed using various statistical techniques such as: Descriptive statistics, Correlation Analysis. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), PROCESS Macro tests. The results of the study show that Meta-Skills and OC are significantly correlated. By contrast, Proactive Personality and Goal Orientation have non-significant relationship with OC. Similarly, the moderating effect of Protean Career on the relationship between personality traits and OC is non-significant except for one constituent of Protean Career, namely, Self-Directed (SD)Goals, which has a moderating effect on the relationship between PP and OC, MS and OC, respectively. This study has therefore shown that individuals having Self-directed (SD) goals are committed to the organization. Except for this relationship and the one between Meta-Skills and OC, personality traits have no significant relationships with Organizational Commitment.