A STUDY ON THE EFFECT AND RANKING OF PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A CASE OF IRANIAN AIRPORTS HOLDING COMPANY

Abstract

In today's world, entrepreneurship, and its usage is inevitable in organizations. Community changes and its conditions and needs, cause changes in the mission of the today organizations and shift them towards entrepreneurship. If employees are entrepreneurs, they will better understand economic opportunities to remain in the competition. Identifying the unique personality characteristics of entrepreneurs and effective factors on entrepreneurship growth in the community and organizations can be considered as the growth and development element, in various aspects of economic, cultural, social, and political statutes in the contemporary world. Thus, due to the role and importance of entrepreneurship and effectiveness of its individual features, this study tries to examine effect and ranking of personality dimensions from 341 people as the study sample out of 3,000 employees at Iranian Airport Holding Company. The research tools used in this study contain a questionnaire, while the reliability based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient equals to 0.78 within an acceptable range. This study is a descriptive-survey research extracted from a set of existing methods in descriptive statistics (Frequency Distribution Tables) and analysis (Multiple Linear Regression) using SPSS software. The research results show that the variables of personality dimensions impact on the entrepreneurial types of employees at Iranian Airports Holding Company, and its intensity is different. The personality dimension of extroversion has the greatest impact and neuroticism has no effect on entrepreneurship.