Hlongwane, Portia2024-10-152024-10-152021-10-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14519/820Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Magister Technologae: Organisational Leadership, in the Tshwane School for Business and Society. Faculty of Management Sciences. Tshwane University of Technology.Employee’s job performance is one of the fundamental goals of high-performing organisations working. Job performance has been studied in the light of work about attitudes in performing a job, job satisfaction and their commitment to carry out the work to completion. The study sought to determine whether personality traits influence an employee’s job performance. The study examined the influence of personality traits on employee job performance. In the quest to answer the primary objective of the study, a quantitative research was used. Data for the study was collected from the employees in the Nkangala District Municipality. 200 questionnaires were distributed and 143 usable questionnaires were returned. This was a response rate of 71.5%, which is high taking into account what is regarded as an acceptable return rate. Stata version 15 was used to analyse data descriptive statistics whilst inferential statistics was computed using Partial Least Square (PLS). The results of the study indicate that the only two of the personality traits openness to experience and extraversion have a significant effect on job performance. The results further showed that conscientiousness and agreeableness have no significant effect on job performance. On the other hand, the relationship between leadership and job performance was found to be negative, this means that leadership does not have an influence on the job performance. It is further noted that the employees of the municipality are trying all their best to in the execution of their duties and the municipality should recognise their performance and commitments. The developed framework could serve as a pathway for other organisation to follow and understand which dimensions are the predictors of job performance and these could be considered when recruitment is done. In understanding these dimensions, the leaders will be able to know the enablers and harness them to ensure employees’ success in their respective job performance.enCC0 1.0 Universalhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/Job performancePersonalityTraitsEmployeeNkangala District MunicipalityThesis