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Proactivity and Locus of Control in Managers
Predrag ZAREVSKI
Ana MARUŠIĆ
Andrea VRANIĆ
Sažetak
The construct of proactive personality has been used in a larger
number of researches aiming to investigate various forms of
organizational behaviour and the results of such behaviour.
Crant (2000) refers to researches confirming the relation of proactive
dimension and individual work and career success, leadership,
organizational initiative, team achievement and business
behaviour. The objective of this research was to investigate possible
differences between the managers in some Croatian firms
and their colleagues of equal academic education not working
in executive positions (here referred to as non-managers) in
terms of their proactivity and locus of control, the personality dimensions often used when investigating job success, organizational
behaviour and career management. A total of 118
subjects (60 managers and 58 non-managers) divided in three
groups according to the length of their working career participated
in the study. Factor analysis of the Proactivity Questionnaire
P1 (Zarevski, 2001) resulted in two independent factors Proneness
to change and Proneness to planning. The results were,
therefore, interpreted according to these findings. Rotter's RI-E
scale (external versus internal reinforcement) was used in assessing
the subject's locus of control. The analysis of variance shows
for managers to be significantly more proactive than non-managers
on both dimensions of the proactivity construct, Proneness to
change and Proneness to planning. The factor Proneness to
change also distinguishes subjects depending on the length of
their working career, where this disposition is stronger in subjects
with shorter working age. Furthermore, results show for
managers to be more internal than non-managers. No
significant difference was found in this dimension depending
on the length of the subjects' working age. These results show
tendencies similar to those expected under the framework of
other research concerning these topics.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
19672
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2002.
Posjeta: 5.754 *