Linking proactive personality and the Big Five to motivation to learn and development activity.

By Debra A. Major, J. E. Turner, Thomas D. Fletcher. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2006

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Proactive Personality, Employee Creativity, and Newcomer Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study (2009, background): “Proactive individuals are especially effective at looking for better ways to do things on the job when given the opportunity to do so. For example, proactive people actively work to manipulate their environment and seek out new information and practices of doing things to improve their performance (”
Motivating Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge Management Systems (2014, background): “Openness to experience has been shown to be positively related to self-perceptions of learning ability, motivation to learn, and participation in development activities (e.g., Major, Turner, & Fletcher, 2006).”
Proactive Personality and Creative Behavior: Examining the Role of Thriving at Work and High-Involvement HR Practices (2020, background): “Additionally, individuals with a proactive personality tend to be more motivated to pursue self-development, as they constantly seek out new opportunities that can contribute to their own development (Major et al., 2006).”
Individual differences and informal learning in the workplace (2013, background): “…positively to motivation to learn, training proficiency, self-perceptions of learning ability, participation in active learning and self-development activities (Bakker, Demerouti, & ten Brummelhuis, 2012; Barrick &Mount, 1991; Colquitt et al., 2000; Major et al., 2006: Orvis & Leffler, 2011).”
Personality aspects of entrepreneurship: A look at five meta-analyses. (2011, positive): “Entrepreneurs are somewhat more extraverted than managers (Zhao & Seibert, 2006) and Extraversion shows weak but signiﬁ-cant correlations with intentions (of setting up a business) and business performance (Zhao et al., 2010).”
Thriving at work: A meta‐analysis (2019, background): “Proactive individuals are more likely to learn at work as they pursue opportunities for self ‐ improvement, including the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and education (Major, Turner, & Fletcher, 2006).”
Career competencies and job crafting: How proactive employees influence their well-being (2016, background): “Additionally, proactive employees seek for ways to improve their career by calling upon their professional network (Thompson, 2005) or engaging in development programs (Major et al., 2006).”
Proactive personality and job performance: The role of job crafting and work engagement (2012, background): “Similarly, Major et al. (2006) showed that, controlling for the Big Five, proactive personality uniquely predicted objective development activity (i.e. the number of training courses registered for during a six-month period and the number of hours spent in training during that period), through the…”
The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Proactive Personality on Career Decision Self‐Efficacy (2014, background): “…empirical evidence has shown that proactive personality is positively associated with conscientiousness and extraversion, and negatively related to neuroticism (Fuller & Marler, 2009; Major et al., 2006), it is plausible to expect that proactive personality would be positively related to CDSE.”