Características de Personalidade e Qualidade de Vida de Gestores no Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

Technology development and globalization caused worldwide changes in companies, requiring a new profile oforganizational leaders. In this context, personality has become a decisive factor in obtaining professionalsuccess. Quality of life (QOL) is a broad research topic in management studies. By employing the Big FiveFactors model, this explanatory research sought to investigate which personality characteristics of managersinfluence their quality of life. The sample consisted of 100 managers, with 77% men and 23% women, from 27companies in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state. The study applied a Factorial Personality Test Battery, the briefversion of the World Health Organization Quality of Life test (WHOQOL-BREF), and a socio demographicquestionnaire. Main results indicated that there is a negative correlation between QOL and Neuroticism andpositive associations between QOL and Extroversion, indicating that being more communicative, active, andgregarious and having less emotional instability are characteristics that positively affect managers’ health.Furthermore, Neuroticism showed to be a predictor of QOL, demonstrating that better adjusted and moreemotionally stable managers have greater wellbeing. These results may help the planning of future interventionsaimed at promoting these individuals’ health.

Keywords

• quality of life
• personality characteristics
• manager
• leadership.