Abstract: The concept of human personality was never explicitly explained in the history of business human resource research. Particularly as an employee behavioural quality, its influence on job performance was overlooked in previous business policy and scholarly analyses of part time academics. This lacuna was quite rampant about private universities in Uganda including Kampala Metropolitan Area, whose quality of academics should have attracted less public suspicion. Aware of that knowledge gap, this study sought to assess the effects of personal, job and corporate behavioural competencies, as facets of employee behavioural personality, on job performance of the target university academics in the metropolitan. The three competencies of research are mirrored in the Big five personality theory especially in the two traits of extraversion and agreeableness. The traits were adopted as the theoretical framework that underpinned research. The study also conceptualised job performance as a function of task performance, contextual performance, and adaptive performance. The research methodology was quantitative and qualitative based on a descriptive- correlational research design. The main study findings were that the behavioural personality competencies of study were at x̅ =3.57; s=0.96 largely high enough among part time university academics of research. Their job performance was at x̅ = 3.04; s=1.19 virtually high. Behavioural personality competencies predicted 76.4% of job performance. Despite public concerns, private university employees including part time academics can possess a good behavioral personality, enough to enhance their performance. In that case, university education stakeholders should jointly work to maintain or achieve value for money behavior and productivity of the target university academics.
Keywords: Personal behavioural competence, job behavioural competence and corporate behavioural competence, task performance, contextual performance, and adaptive performance.
Title: Behavioural Personality Competence and Job Performance of Part Time Academic Staff in Private Universities in Kampala Metropolitan Area
Author: Ssemwanga Sadat Lutaaya, Prof. Muyinda Mande, Dr. Edaku Charles
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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