How the Effect of Demographic Factors on Employee’s Workplace Personality is Mediated by Locus of Control & Moderated by Job Demands and Resources

The dynamics of employee‟s workplace personality traits and correlates has always been an important area of behavioural research. While more studies have focused on effect of personality traits on different performance related outcomes, a relatively fewer number of studies have focused on how personality is impacted by other important variables. The aim of the present study is to examine the role of professional demographic factors namely level of education, role played in the organization & years of experience, as predictors of workplace personality. This study further examines the mediating effect of employee‟s locus of control and also the moderating effect of job demands and resources on this predictability. Results reveal that the demographic variables can significantly predict employee‟s workplace personality. Locus of control partially mediates the effect of demographics on personality. However moderating effect of job demand and resources, for this sample is largely insignificant.