The Investigation the Impact of Personality Traits and Career Success with the Mediating Role of Work Engagement among Employees University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of personality traits on career success with the mediating role of work engagement among employees of University of Mohaghegh Ardabili by using descriptive - correlational with structural equation method. The statistical population of the present study consisted of 754 employees of Mohaghegh Ardabili University. Using the Cochran's formula, 254 people were selected as simple random sampling. Schaufeli and Salanova’s Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (2001), Radcip’s Career Success Questionnaire (1984) and Rammstedt & John's Personality Traits Questionnaire (2007) were used to collect data that their reliability through the Cronbach's alpha was 0. 85, 0. 88 and 0. 74 respectively. The structural equation model was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the direct effect of personality traits and career success is 0. 25. The indirect effect of personality traits and career success with the mediating work engagement is 0. 189. Also, the results showed that mediating variable of work engagement indirectly explained the effect of personality traits on career success. Further according to despite the mediating of work engagement, direct path of personality traits is significant to career success, it was concluded that work engagement for personality traits on career success has a minor mediation role. Therefore, it is recommended that employees can evaluated in terms of personality traits during recruitment.