The Homogeneity of Managerial Personality in Organizational Behavior (According to The Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model)

The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between the degree of variability in personality characteristics and organizational tenure. In this study, the research methodology is causal- comparative method and the participants for this study include 87 sales managers who attended a two-day management seminar sponsored by their employer. The instruments used for collecting research data consist of a questionnaire (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) and a simple interview for tenure data.To analyse the data, Levene’s test, ANOVA correlation and SPSS/PC software were used. These variables were examined at both the individual and group levels of analysis. The homogeneity hypothesis was first examined by testing for differences in variances for personality across tenure groups and also differences in tenure – group variances for personality were tested using Levene’s test for homogeneity of variances. The relationship between tenure and homogeneity of personality could also be examined at the group level using a corelational strategy. At the individual level, a pattern of decreasing variance in employee personality was found as organizational tenure increased, though the differences among the tenure groups were not statistically significant. At the group level, both statistically significant support and directional support was found for the homogeneity hypothesis.