Expressing the Role of Personality Aspects on Networking Behavior

Abstract

Communicational networks have an essential role in managers's successful innovation. As people in organizations have more communicational skills, they can reach more success. With this paper, we try to evalute the impact of extraversion, consistency and openness to experience-which are essential aspects of personality- on networking behavior. Research method was descriptive-exploratory method and also it was applicable one. For gathering data, questionnaire was used and research validity and relaiability was testified by content validity, construct validity and then alpha cronbache. The population of this research were the representatives of Karafarin insurance company in Mashhad which has 120 personnel. The sampling method was randome simple sampling. To analyze the data of different methods of statistical analysis, such as Pearson correlation analysis was used. Results show that extraversion, consistency and openness to experience influence networking behavior. extraversion aspect has more impact on developing networking communication. Consistency aspect influences networking communication usage and maintenance. Also this is true about openness to experience.

Keywords

• extraversion
• consistency
• openness to experience
• networking behavior
• karafarin insurance