Predicting the Quality of Financial Managers’ Organizational PerformanceBased on Personality Organization, Job Stress and Ego Strength

Abstract

Objectives: The aim of current study was to predict the quality of financial managers’ organizational performancebased on personality organization, job stress, and ego strength. Method: This research was correlational and population includes all of the financial managers of the country that were 800 person. The research sample (266 person) that was selected through purposeful sampling. The instrument that was used included organizational performance questionnaire of Achieve, Kernberg’s inventory of personality organization, questionnaire of job stress, and psychosocial inventory of ego strengths. To analyze the data, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression were used. Results: Findings showed that personality organization was negatively correlated with organizational performance in psychological defense subscale, identity crisis, and reality testing. Job stress is negatively correlated with organizational performance in role subscales, communication, leadership support, peers support, control, and change. Ego strength is positively correlated with organizational performance in the subscales of hope, desire, purpose, competence, loyalty and wisdom. The results of regression analysis showed that the subscales of authorities’ support, changes, and roles predict 30% of the variance of organizational performance in three valid models totally. Discussion: The job stress has a significant role in predicting the quality of financial managers’ organizational performance, and High ego strength improvesthequality of their organizational performance.