The Role of Proactive Personality, Goal Orientation & Self-Efficacy in Goal Setting & Performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (1) ◽  
pp. 15993
Author(s):  
Jean Phillips ◽  
Stanley M Gully ◽  
John E McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Proactive Personality

On the Role of Goal Orientation Traits and Self-Efficacy in the Goal-Setting Process: Distinctions That Make a Difference

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyan Fan ◽  
Hui Meng ◽  
Robert S. Billings ◽  
Robert C. Litchfield ◽  
Ira Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Setting Process

Public accounting profession and fraud detection responsibility

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Wayan Rustiarini ◽  
Anik Yuesti ◽  
Agus Wahyudi Salasa Gama
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Fraud Detection ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Professional Commitment ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Expectation Gap

Purpose The study aims to examine the influence of auditor personal factors, such as goal orientation, self-efficacy and professional commitment to auditor’s responsibility to detect the fraudulent, particularly in small accounting firms. Design/methodology/approach The authors surveyed 86 auditors working in small accounting firms in Bali Province, Indonesia. Findings The results prove the role of self-efficacy as a mediating variable in the relationship of goal orientation and auditor responsibility. This result at once confirms that self-efficacy can improve individual performance even in complex tasks. This study also proves the role of professional commitment as a mediator variable. Research limitations/implications Given that the respondents came from small accounting firms, these findings are not intended to be generalized with auditors in large accounting firms. Practical implications These findings highlight essential efforts to reduce audit expectation gaps between auditors and the public. The small accounting firms’ leaders must to alignment workplace organizational goals and organization professional goals. A dualism of purpose causes the auditor to fail to fulfill the responsibility of fraud detection. Social implications There is a severe audit expectation gap related to the auditor’s role in detecting fraud. This finding expected to answer public questions related to auditors’ ability and responsibility in small accounting firms in detecting fraud. Originality/value There is limited research on auditor responsibility, particularly in small audit firms in developing countries. Also, there is still debate scientific about the influence of goal orientation, self-efficacy and professional commitment to auditor performance.

Creativity, Proactive Personality and Entrepreneurial Intentions: Examining the Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy

2019 ◽  
pp. 097215091984439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Kumar ◽  
Shalini Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Management Students ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The study aimed to explore the role of creativity and proactive personality on management student’s entrepreneurial intention. The study also proposed entrepreneurial self-efficacy to mediate the effect of proactivity and creativity on entrepreneurial intention. The data were collected from 484 management students using a structured questionnaire which were further analysed using structural equation modelling in Amos 20.0. The results showed that entrepreneurial self-efficacy was the strongest predictor of entrepreneurial intention. Proactive personality was also found to influence entrepreneurial intention significantly, though the effect of creativity on intention was very marginal. Finally, the results of the mediation analysis (bootstrapping method) showed that the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurial intention was fully mediated by self-efficacy while the effect of proactivity on entrepreneurial intention was partially mediated. The findings of the study produced interesting and significant implications which are discussed in the article.

scholarly journals Linking Proactive Personality and Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Serial Mediation Model Involving Broader and Specific Self-Efficacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Shumaila Naz ◽  
Cai Li ◽  
Umer Zaman ◽  
Muhammad Rafiq
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Innovation Dynamics

Entrepreneurial intention (EI) has been widely cited as one of the foremost predecessors of entrepreneurship which fosters business opportunities to minimize the dependence on employment. Since it is worth noticing how one’s EI is formed; therefore, the prime purpose of this paper is to estimate the underlying concepts of proactive personality (PP) in establishing potential entrepreneurs’ EI through the mediating role of both specific self-efficacy and broader self-efficacy. This research investigates the parallel mediation and the role of mediators in the form of a series between PP and EI via broader self-efficacy and specific self-efficacy. The extant research employed a quantitative methodology by using a self-administered questionnaire technique. Data were collected using the cluster sampling technique from a sample size of 700 respondents in the higher education sector. To test the measurement and structural modeling, the PLS-SEM technique was deployed using Smart PLS 2.0 M3 software. Regarding the direct relationships, findings infer that PP is positively associated with three broader forms of self-efficacy, which determine specific self-efficacy. Findings indicated that broader forms of self-efficacy and specific self-efficacy play the role of the serial mediators in the relationship between proactive personality and entrepreneurial intentions. The research carries important implications for the university policymakers in Pakistan to develop their self-reliant “business incubation centers”, initiate experiential learning-based projects, improvise competency-based curriculum, design innovative projection techniques, and follow open innovation dynamics to establish an entrepreneurial culture.

Accountants’ behavioural reactions to external threats: the mediating role of proactive personality in the goal orientation process

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Tomo ◽  
Davide de Gennaro
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
External Events ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose In a period of profound crisis for professions, this paper aims to develop knowledge about the role of proactive personality in the relationship between accountants’ occupational prestige and goal orientation. Design/methodology/approach The study draws upon the literature on professions and employs a multiple linear regression analysis to test the mediating role of proactive personality when accountants challenge external events threatening their profession. The study focuses on Italy, an area characterized by a high degree of precariousness where, over the past 30 years, accountants have been facing many threats undermining their occupational prestige. Findings The findings show that proactive accountants are more goal-oriented, unless they perceive that others consider their career to be prestigious. Therefore, the study demonstrates that occupational prestige – more volatile and subject to external forces– can shape proactive personality – usually internally determined and more stable – insofar a perceived low occupational prestige can be mediated by a proactive personality towards goal orientation. Practical implications The study has both academic and practical implications, showing that context-related factors are buffered by personal characteristics when professionals react to external events affecting their prestige. Originality/value The paper sheds lights on the critical issues of setting and achieving goals in uncertain situations, and enhances our understanding of the accounting profession, by identifying new reactions and behaviours based on personal factors as well as exogenous and contextual factors.

An Examination and Extension of the Theory of Gamified Learning: The Moderating Role of Goal Orientation

2020 ◽  
pp. 104687812095874
Author(s):  
Caribay Garcia- Marquez ◽  
Kristina N. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Gamified Learning ◽  
Moderating Role

Background. Landers (2014) proposed the theory of gamified learning to provide a theoretical framework for gamification research. Unfortunately, little empirical work has tested this theory. Thus, the current study aimed to close this gap by examining the theory’s mediational pathway as well as exploring the moderating role of goal orientation on the pathway from Assessment game attributes (i.e., assessment and progress) to self-efficacy to learning outcomes. Method. A gamified resume course was developed on a gamification software platform. Participants ( N = 185) were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk and randomly assigned to one of four conditions (i.e., badges, progress bar, badges and progress bar, and control). Participants responded to a pre-course questionnaire containing demographics and the goal orientation measure, were directed to the course website to complete the gamified resume course and knowledge measure, and were finally re-directed to a post-course questionnaire collecting job search self-efficacy. Results. There was little support for the hypothesized moderated mediation model. However, an interesting outcome of this study was the significant conditional indirect effect of the badge condition for average learning and high avoid performance goal orientations, suggesting badges can improve self-efficacy in gamified learning. Discussion and Conclusion. A key takeaway of this study was preliminary evidence suggesting badges may help mitigate the negative effects of avoid performance goal orientation on self-efficacy. This finding demonstrates how individual differences play a role in learners’ responses to game attributes in a gamified learning experience. Practical implications, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.

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