Proactive career behaviors and subjective career success: the moderating role of national culture

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dc.contributor.authorSmale, Adam
dc.contributor.authorBagdadli, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorCotton, Rick
dc.contributor.authorDello Russo, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorDickmann, Michael
dc.contributor.authorDysvik, Anders
dc.contributor.authorGianecchini, Martina
dc.contributor.authorKase, Robert
dc.contributor.authorLazarova, Mila
dc.contributor.authorReichel, Astrid
dc.contributor.authorRozo, Paula
dc.contributor.authorVerbruggen, Marijke
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-22T15:31:45Z
dc.date.available2018-08-22T15:31:45Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-20
dc.description.abstractAlthough career proactivity has positive consequences for an individual's career success, studies mostly examine objective measures of success within single countries. This raises important questions about whether proactivity is equally beneficial for different aspects of subjective career success, and the extent to which these benefits extend across cultures. Drawing on Social Information Processing theory, we examined the relationship between proactive career behaviors and two aspects of subjective career success—financial success and work‐life balance—and the moderating role of national culture. We tested our hypotheses using multilevel analyses on a large‐scale sample of 11,892 employees from 22 countries covering nine of GLOBE's 10 cultural clusters. Although we found that proactive career behaviors were positively related to subjective financial success, this relationship was not significant for work‐life balance. Furthermore, career proactivity was relatively more important for subjective financial success in cultures with high in‐group collectivism, high power distance, and low uncertainty avoidance. For work‐life balance, career proactivity was relatively more important in cultures characterized by high in‐group collectivism and humane orientation. Our findings underline the need to treat subjective career success as a multidimensional construct and highlight the complex role of national culture in shaping the outcomes of career proactivity.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAdam Smale, Silvia Bagdadli, Rick Cotton, et al. (2019) Proactive career behaviors and subjective career success: the moderating role of national culture. Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2019, pp. 105-122en_UK
dc.identifier.cris20948397
dc.identifier.issn0894-3796
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/job.2316
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13421
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherWileyen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectcareer self managementen_UK
dc.subjectcareer successen_UK
dc.subjectnational cultureen_UK
dc.subjectproactive career behaviorsen_UK
dc.titleProactive career behaviors and subjective career success: the moderating role of national cultureen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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