Proactive Personality and Subjective Career Success among Middle Level Managers – A Pilot Study

Abstract

Proactive personality “as a dispositional construct that identifies differences among people in the extent to which they take action to influence their environment”.Today in this competitive world, change appears to be the only constant, competition as a norm, and job security a day-dreamer’s fantasy. In such a backdrop being proactive is a necessity rather than a luxury. Literature shows the importance of proactive people in many dimensions. Many organizations preserved proactive behaviors as a role requirement, emphasizing its value to employees, and hiring applicants with a proactive orientation.
The influence of proactive personality has been studied in varied fields such as career success job performance through a social capital perspectivetransformational and charismatic leadership and job search success. The study shows that the effects of situational judgment effectiveness and proactive personality on work perceptions and outcomes. Research shows that proactive personality moderated the interactive effect of job autonomy and demands on employee strain. Their results were consistent with the premise that proactive employees take advantage of high job control to manage the demands they face more effectively, whereas passive employees do not take advantage of greater autonomy to this end.
This study shall be a pilot study to understanding the relationship between proactive personality and subjective career success among managers in an organization in the study region.The study was carried out in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh where the sample units were middle level managers working in the financial institutions. The structured questionnaire was used to measure the variables and to understand their relationship. The result of the study showed that there is significant relation between the variables.