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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Proactive Personality"”.
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Examining the relationship between proactive personality and career success
… and responsibility in today's workforce, proactive behavior and the performance of discretionary, extra-role work behaviors are being recognized as vital to effective organizational functioning. This study examined one mechanism that may explain how proactive personality relates to career …
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The Effects of Proactive Personality, Collectivism, and Conscientiousness on Training Motivation
… it is imperative to examine how trainee proactive personality, collectivism, and conscientiousness influence motivation to learn and subsequent transfer intentions during training. I propose a conditional, indirect process model where proactive personality interacts with collectivism and …
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Proactive Personality and the Big Five as Predictors of Motivation to Learn
… themselves. Therefore, the efficacy of relevant personality characteristics as predictors of motivation to learn was investigated. Proactive personality and the Big Five factors of personality were hypothesized to be predictive of motivation to learn. These personality variables are relevant …
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Proactive Personality: Genetic Influences in its Relationships with Career Success and Environmental Impacts on Its Change
Proactive personality is defined as individuals' relatively enduring tendency to alter the environment. In my dissertation, I undertake two studies to examine important issues. In the first study, I draw upon evolutionary psychology and genetic research to investigate the genetic foundation of …
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The influence of proactive personality on social entrepreneurial intentions among African American and Hispanic undergraduate students: the moderating role of hope
… 1) to determine if a relationship exists between proactive personality and social entrepreneurial intentions among African American and Hispanic undergraduate students; and 2) to determine if hope moderates the relationship between proactive personality and social entrepreneurial intentions. The …
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The impact of proactive personality, economic rewards, and social exchange perceptions on knowledge sharing among engineers in a South Korean IT company
… The present study, focusing on the impacts of proactive personality, social and economic exchange perceptions on knowledge sharing, will have theoretical implications for researchers in human resource development (HRD) and management, as well as implications for practicing managers and …
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Do personality traits predict entrepreneurial intention and performance?
This study examined the effectiveness of using personality traits to predict entrepreneurial intention and performance. The participants in the study (N = 113) were all members of an Enterprise Development programme based in Cape Town in the Western Cape. The personality variables under …
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DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCT VALIDATION OF HOGAN’S RAW MODEL OF EMPLOYABILITY: THE WILLINGNESS TO WORK HARD COMPONENT
… the construct may be dispositional. I examined proactive personality by using the G ProACT scale to help understand the multi-dimensionality of <em>Willingness to Work Hard</em>. <em>Taking initiative, rigidness, planning</em>, and <em>anticipating opportunities</em> were the four subscales that …
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Examining Access to Decent Work Among Women Veterans: A Psychology of Working Theory Perspective
… predicted decent work via work volition. Proactive personality was additionally examined as a moderator variable and did not significantly moderate any model paths; however, it was found to be a unique predictor of decent work and work volition, as well as decent work and career …
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Telework and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Underexplored Roles of Social Identity and Professional Isolation
… and OCB performance, and to determine whether personality moderates the psychological consequences of teleworking. Survey data were collected from 286 teleworkers and 62 of their coworkers across organizations from a range of industries, jobs, and locations. Coworkers were recruited in order to …
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Self-Guided Development: A proactive approach to employee development
… development literature as in important type of proactive behavior. Second, to define self-guided development and begin to establish its nomological network. Self-guided development should be influenced by both individual differences (e.g., proactive personality) and contextual variables (e.g., …
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Rating Leadership Potential From Above: The Effects of Implicit Theories on Supervisors' Ratings of Leadership Potential
… opposite of that anticipated. Additionally, both proactive personality and Machiavellianism were found to influence the social categorization process. These results may help inform future theory regarding IFTs andhigh potential practices.
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DISPOSITIONAL EMPLOYABILITY AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO CAREER SUCCESS: A META-ANALYSIS
… job. The variables I used to structure the W are proactive personality, conscientiousness, work ethic, job involvement, adaptability, and ambition.</p> <p>I used the Hunter and Schmidt method to analyze the data applying a random effects model. All calculations were conducted in Excel. The overall …
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Newcomer Entry and Team Creativity: The Roles of Coworkers, Leaders, and Newcomers
… behaviors toward newcomers or newcomers were proactive. Moreover, coworker helping behaviors and newcomer proactive personality interacted with each other to affect team creativity. Specifically, the relationship between team coworker helping behavior and post-entry team creativity (with …
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A psychometric analysis of nascent entrepreneurs : understanding the impact of individual entrepreneurial cognition on the founding and survival of new small businesses
… and behavioural dispositions such as proactive personality were identified as significant moderators within this process.
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Enhancing creativity in a general work environment : the role of problem-solving demand
… and job autonomy) and one individual factor (proactive personality) were hypothesized to be precursors to PSD perceptions. The theorized model was tested with data obtained from a sample of 270 employees and their supervisors from 3 organisations in the People’s Republic of China. Regression …
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The Determinants of a Nurse's Discretionary Decision to Respond to Situations that Place Patients at Risk for Safety Events but Requires a Response that is Beyond the Scope of Nursing Practice
… (education, experience, situational awareness, proactive behavior, and perceptions of transformational leadership). In addition, the nurses were asked to read three clinical vignettes and answer questions regarding the decisions they would make if faced with the situation in the clinical …
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Domestic Work as Decent Work: An Empirical Test of the Predictors of Decent Work To Extend the Psychology of Working Theory
… economic constraints, work volition and proactive personality were one-dimensional, and the decent work scale was fivedimensional (complementary values, access to health care, adequate compensation, free time and rest, and safe work conditions). Unexpectedly, the social support scale …
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