Machievallian Personality Dimensions and Work Ethics among Bank Employees in Nigeria

ABSTRACT Work ethics which has been a major concern in Nigerian public and private financial institutions . is not known to be given much research attention on contemporary workplace issues that impact employee productivity. This necessitated the survey, which involved a sample size of 230. Participants that include male and females were drawn from employees of different branches of a commercial bank in Lagos. Using standardised scales for data collection, results of multiple regression analysis confirmed the first hypothesis which predicted that Machievallian personality would influence work ethics (R2 = .33; F [7, 221] = 13.58; p