Proactive personality and job performance: A social capital perspective

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Thompson, JA
• 署名单位: Brigham Young University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.5.1011
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 1011-1017
• 关键词: proactive personality; network building; initiative taking; Job performance

摘要

This study of 126 employee-supervisor dyads examined a mediated model of the relationship between proactive personality and job performance. The model, informed by the social capital perspective, suggests that proactive employees reap performance benefits by means of developing social networks that provide them the resources and latitude to pursue high-level initiatives. Structural equation modeling suggested that the relationship between proactive personality and job performance is mediated by network building and initiative taking on the part of the employee.