*Research Scholar, Department of Business Administration Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar-608002
**Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar – 608002
Online published on 15 March, 2019.
The main purpose of the study is to find out the relationship between the Big Five Personality traits namely, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Openness and Emotional Intelligence. For this purpose a sample size of 536 Executives who are working at a public sector power generating organization functioning in Tamil Nadu state is selected. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the samples. Big five personality inventory developed by John and Srivastava (1999); and Emotional Intelligence developed by Abdullah et al. (2013) were used for data collection. The study has found that there are significant relationship between the Big Five Personality traits and Emotional Intelligence.
Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness, Extraversion, Emotional Intelligence
