The Impact of Dark Personality Traits on Individual’s Work Performance: Moderating Role of Organizational Culture

Abstract

Attraction towards the dark personality traits has been increased in the organizational sciences in recent years as indicated by a huge number of research studies regarding the dark personality. However, these negative characteristics of the personality remain relatively understudied and misunderstood yet. The objective of this research study is to analyze the impact of dark personality traits on an individual’s work performance and moderating role of organizational culture. A questionnaire was used for data collection from employees of the banking sector working in Rawalpindi & Islamabad. We distributed 250 questionnaires but 221 filled responses are received and 214 are utilized for analysis purposes. In this study frequency distribution, descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analysis are applied through SPSS. This Study finds organizational culture moderates the relationship of dark personality traits and an individual’s work performance.