Personality Traits, Satisfaction with Fairness of Performance-Based Incentive (PBI) System and Research Performance of Teachers in a Public University of Pakistan

Abstract

This study aimed to describe how incentives and personality types are perceived to be having impact on research performance of teachers working in the Public sector universities of Pakistan. Study tested the relationship hypothesis of the personality types as well as expectancy, instrumentality and valence of performance based incentives and their perceived impact on research performance and output. It has also discussed incentive types and their motivational impact on research output. A survey was conducted from 130 faculty members out of total 650 faculty members on the basis of probability sampling technique named as stratified- cum- judgmental sampling technique from one of the major public sector universities of Pakistan named as Punjab University. The instrument comprised measuring various dimensions of three variables personality type, performance based incentives and research performance. The findings are based on an analysis of data by not only using quantitative (SPSS software) but also qualitative research methods (content analysis and interviews).