Personality type and job satisfaction among managers and employees of bardakhshan municipality

The main purpose of the present study is to determine the relationship between various types of personality and job satisfaction. The target population comprises all managers and employees of Bardaskan municipality in 2013. The David McClelland and John Atkinson model is used for personality evaluation. According to them, the human personality is divided into three categories: those who need achievement, those who need power and those who need affiliation. Each of these types has a particular behavior and features appropriate for the particular organizations and posts. The sampling method of this research is full enumeration (N=53). This is a descriptive correlating study. In order to data collecting the R.Stertz and D.Broun Steen questionnaires are used for personality assessment and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) for measuring the employee's job satisfaction. The SPSS software is applied for data analysis. The data were analyzed by statistical methods. The results indicated that: 1. There is a meaningful relationship between personality and job satisfaction in general. 2. There is a meaningful relationship between the above-mentioned three personality types and job satisfaction.