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Capitalizing on proactivity for informal mentoring received during early career: The moderating role of core self‐evaluations
Author(s) -
Liang Jian,
Gong Yaping
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.1849
Subject(s) - proactivity , psychology , core self evaluations , receipt , personality , psychosocial , social psychology , moderation , sample (material) , job satisfaction , job performance , psychotherapist , job attitude , world wide web , computer science , chemistry , chromatography
Summary This paper examines the role of proactive personality in the receipt of informal mentoring received (i.e., psychosocial and career‐related mentoring) among a sample of 174 early career employees in China. The regression results indicated that networking behavior mediated the relationship between proactive personality and career‐related mentoring, whereas voice behavior mediated the relationship between proactive personality and psychosocial mentoring. Furthermore, core self‐evaluations moderated the aforementioned two indirect relationships such that they were stronger at higher levels of core self‐evaluations. Our analyses also showed that the moderating effects occurred at the first stage of the indirect relationships. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.