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Evidence for Incremental Validity of Proactive Personality in Predicting Task Performance
Bharati B. Belwalkar, Jerome J. Tobacyk
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2016.11.001
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, USA
Proactive personality is defined as a dispositional tendency to bring about changes in one’s environment. A number of researchers have concluded that proactive personality is an important dispositional construct and that it is distinct from other personality constructs, such as those included in the Big Five (Bateman & Crant, 1993; Crant, 1995; Thompson, 2005). Literature also suggests that proactive personality is a valid predictor of workplace-specific outcomes like job performance, career success, and leadership quality (Crant & Bateman, 2000; Crant, 1995; Seibert, Crant, & Kraimer, 1999; Thompson, 2005). The present research further evaluated the predictive power of proactive personality in relation to task performance. College students (n = 119) completed an online survey including measures of proactive personality, task performance, conscientiousness, social desirability, and a brief demographic questionnaire. The results of hierarchical multiple regression indicated that proactive personality is a significant predictor of task performance even when controlling for such empirically-proven strong predictors as conscientiousness and work experience. The authors believe that proactive personality may be a useful dispositional construct for organizational selection and assessment.
proactive personality, task performance, incremental validity, organization, conscientiousness, social desirability, work experience
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