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

Smale, Adam; Bagdadli, Silvia; Cotton, Rick; Dello Russo, Silvia; Dickmann, Michael; Dysvik, Anders; Gianecchini, Martina; Kase, Robert; Lazarova, Mila; Reichel, Astrid; Rozo, Paula; Verbruggen, Marijke

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dc.creator	Smale, Adam
dc.creator	Bagdadli, Silvia
dc.creator	Cotton, Rick
dc.creator	Dello Russo, Silvia
dc.creator	Dickmann, Michael
dc.creator	Dysvik, Anders
dc.creator	Gianecchini, Martina
dc.creator	Kase, Robert
dc.creator	Lazarova, Mila
dc.creator	Reichel, Astrid
dc.creator	Rozo, Paula
dc.creator	Verbruggen, Marijke
dc.date	2018-08-22T15:31:45Z
dc.date	2018-08-22T15:31:45Z
dc.date	2018-08-20
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-25T16:37:57Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-25T16:37:57Z
dc.identifier	Adam 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. 105-122
dc.identifier	0894-3796
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2316
dc.identifier	http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13421
dc.identifier	20948397
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182279
dc.description	Although 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.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Wiley
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject	career self management
dc.subject	career success
dc.subject	national culture
dc.subject	proactive career behaviors
dc.title	Proactive career behaviors and subjective career success: the moderating role of national culture
dc.type	Article