Role of Personality Traits on Trust in Leader in Driving Virtual Team Performance

Abstract

Personality traits such as extraversion and neuroticism are the confidence placed on the team spearhead by their subordinates. These personality traits has a significant role in case of virtual teams. To investigate the role of extraversion and neuroticism on trust in virtual team leaders, the current research is vital in this regard. Thus, this specific study aims to explore the positive and negative effects of extraversion and neuroticism in order to find out that whether these personality traits have a significant effect on the trust in leader by the subordinates of the team or not. A five point likert scale was used to gather the data. The questionnaire via Google forms was distributed to the respective respondents. After the analyses it is concluded that extraversion has a straight optimistic effect on the trust in leader placed by the team members whereas neuroticism has a straight negative effect on the trust in leader placed by the team members. Study further analyzed that when the virtual team is high in working environment, the influence of the extraversion is positive but is in lower levels. Similarly the level of neuroticism is also low when it comes to virtual nature of teams but has an insignificant and negative influence on the trust placed by the team member on their team leader when the teams are in a bit high level of virtual nature.