Perception of supervisor support, personality traits of employees and their satisfaction with work-related facets

Abstract

The planned downsizing in many organizations which are under the state ownership in Serbia produce a high level of uncertainty and a very specific organi-zational environment. Investigation of the satisfaction with work-related facets of the employees at the beginning of organizational changes is a very important step toward the building of an appropriate strategy for human resource management. We investigate the moderating effect of the variable "supervisor support" on the correla-tions between variables "Big Five personality traits of employees" and "satisfaction with work-related facets". Sample consists of 117 employees from a big state owned organization during an important organizational change. The following instruments are used: Big Five Locator - BFL, Communication Satisfaction Questionnaire - CSQ and Job Satisfac-tion Questionnaire - JS. Our results prove that the variable "supervisor support" moderate the correlati-ons between variable "personality trait conscientiousness" and variables "satisfacti-on with pay" and "satisfaction with benefit"; the correlation between variable "personality trait openness" and variable "satisfaction with pay"; the correlations between variable "personality trait negative affectivity" and variables "satisfaction with pay", "satisfaction with benefit", and "satisfaction with recognition".