THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND REMOTE WORK PRODUCTIVITY AMONG HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY

Personality traits refer to relatively stable patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that influence how individuals respond to situations and perform their work roles. Remote work productivity refers to the level of efficiency and effectiveness with which individuals complete their work tasks while working outside the traditional workplace environment. With remote and hybrid work arrangements becoming more of a ubiquitous thing in higher education faculty, it is changing the nature of workplaces. These shifts have been more concerned with the factors that determine productivity. The influence of personal personality traits on productivity, especially in remote work settings, is one of the areas that has been explored. This research attempts to learn how personality factors, or specifically the Big Five model of personality, relate to the productivity of remote higher education faculty. The data will be gathered and presented as per a standardised Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2 short form) and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWQP- short version) to the members of the faculty in the higher institutions of learning. We will employ a quantitative correlational research design because we can examine the relationship between personality and productivity attributed to remote work among 240 samples collected using purposive sampling. The analysis is done using differentiae statistics, Students t-test, and ANOVA. Through such relationships, we believe that we will add meaningful contributions to the ever-increasing body of literature on the psychology of work in the academic field.