Proactive personality and career adaptability: The role of thriving at work

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhou Jiang
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-298
Author(s):  
Muhammad Agung Prasetyo Wibowo ◽  
IBG Adi Permana

Career adaptability is one of the resource that must be possessed by every person on this day, because it has been considered as a driving factor that help people to achieve the desired work goals. Moreover, nowadays it has been known that the work arrangements are unpredictable and too many changes that occurs, because it is considered to have no boundaries and transparent, one of them is the emergence of new job relationships such as internet freelance. Antacedents that have been known previously from career adaptability are widely known as proactive personality, then This study also discuss another antecedent for career adaptability, which is known as thriving at work. This study also confirms previous research that discuss the mediating role of thriving at work on the effect of proactive personality on career adaptability. Total of the sample on this study are 352 internet freelancers from an online employement platform in Indonesia, where the internet freelance responded to the questionnaire that was shared by the author through an online approach. The obtained data have been analyzed by conducting a simple regression test equipped with PROCESS Model 4. Result have shown that there is a significant direct relationship of the three variables raised in this study, then also revealed the role of mediating from thriving at work on the effect of proactive personality on career adaptability. Overall, this study contributes to the literature discussing internet freelance. Keyword: Proactive Personality, Thriving at Work, Career Adaptability, Mediation, Internet Freelance


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Khamis AlKhemeiri ◽  
Khalizani Khalid ◽  
Norwahida Musa

Purpose Employees with high career competencies are more successful in career development. However, it is unclear whether proactivity matters for early-career employees. Thus, this study aims to investigate the influence of career competencies and proactive personality on career adaptability and the moderating role of proactive personality in this relationship. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a quantitative methodology, collecting data through online questionnaires from respondents (n = 400) who had less than five years of work experience in the UAE. A measurement model and hypotheses testing were conducted using AMOS software. Multigroup structural equation modelling was used to test the moderation model. Findings The results show a direct relationship between career competencies and career adaptability. However, a proactive personality is insignificantly related to career adaptability. Further, early-career employees with low proactive personality benefit from high career competencies. Originality/value This study offers contributions to the emerging understanding of career construction by emphasising the important role of career competencies for early-career employees who manifest a low proactive personality.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaoqun Zhang ◽  
Donglan Zha ◽  
Guanglei Yang ◽  
Fu Wang

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the mediating role of perceived insider status (PIS) on the relationship between differential leadership and thriving at work, and the extent to which this mediating role is moderated by proactive personality. Design/methodology/approach This study conducts a questionnaire with 332 employees from China, taking certain traditional cultural factors and social exchange theory into consideration. This paper then analyzes the responses using a structuring equation model with SPSS 24.0 and LISREL 8.7. Findings The results show that PIS mediated the relationship between differential leadership and thriving at work. In addition, proactive personality was found to moderate this mediating pathway, whereby a high proactive personality increased the mediating role of perceived insider status. Originality/value This study explores how and why differential leadership is positively related to thriving at work. This paper verifies the moderated mediation model relationship among the research variables and contributes to the literature on differential leadership.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve M. Jex ◽  
Jennifer L. Burnfield ◽  
Eyal Grauer ◽  
Gary A. Adams ◽  
Emily Morgan

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