Are Proactive Personalities Always Beneficial? Political Skill as a Moderator

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sun, Shuhua; van Emmerik, Hetty I. J.
• 署名单位: Maastricht University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0037833
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 966-975
• 关键词: helping behavior; learning behavior; POLITICAL SKILL; PROACTIVE PERSONALITY; task performance

摘要

Does proactive personality always enhance job success? The authors of this study draw on socioanalytic theory of personality and organizational political perspectives to study employees' political skill in moderating the effects of proactive personality on supervisory ratings of employee task performance, helping behaviors, and learning behaviors. Multisource data from 225 subordinates and their 75 immediate supervisors reveal that proactive personality is associated negatively with supervisory evaluations when political skill is low, and the negative relationship disappears when political skill is high. Implications and future research directions are discussed.