Explaining the Employees` Proactive Behaviors in the base of Self-Construal, Job Independence, Commitment and Proactive Personality

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Business Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba`i University,

2 Department of Business Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba`i University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explain a model for employees' proactive behaviors in which the role of self-construal, job independence, commitment and proactive personality were considered.
Method: By method, this research is a descriptive correlational survey, and by purpose, is an applied research. The statistical population of this study included the staff of Day Insurance Company, a random sample of whom participated in this study and responded to questionnaires of job dependence (Bishop & Scott, 2000), job independence (Morgeson & Humphrey, 2006), proactive personality (Batemann & Crant, 1993), self-construal (Lu & Gilmour, 2007), commitment (Ellemers, de Gilder & van den Heuvel, 1998), career-oriented proactive behavior (Belschak & Den Hartog, 2010), and work unit-oriented proactive behavior (Griffin, Neal & Parker, 2007). Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.
Findings: Findings showed that independent self-construal and dependent self- construal through career commitment and commitment to work unit affect career-oriented proactive behaviors and work unit-focused proactive behaviors. Also, the moderating role of job independence and job dependence and proactive personality in the occurrence of proactive behaviors was not confirmed.
Conclusion: According to research findings, paying attention to the types of self-construal and types of commitment of employees to the career and work unit can provide the ground for the occurrence of proactive behaviors in employees.

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Volume 14, Issue 4
December 2022
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