Proactive personality, goal orientation and meta-skills as predictors of protean and boundaryless career attitudes

Abstract

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between proactive personality (PP), goal orientation (GO), meta-skills and the underlying dimensions of protean (self-directed and value-driven) and boundaryless (boundaryless mobility and mobility preference) career attitudes among Indian IT professionals. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 600 IT professionals working in six IT companies in the Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) in India. Structural equation modeling was used to validate the measures of the selected constructs and for testing the hypothesis. Findings The results of the study revealed that PP significantly affects individuals’ protean and boundaryless career attitudes. Moreover, GO significantly affects protean career attitudes, and meta-skill significantly affects boundaryless mobility, respectively. Practical implications The study serves as a guide for the HR managers to devise the company’s strategies keeping in mind the employees’ requirements in parallel with the policies for IT industries in India. Originality/value The study enriches the protean and boundaryless career literature by identifying and empirically establishing the relationship between various personality traits and career patterns opted in the context of the Indian IT industry.

Assessing teacher innovations: expert versus peer ratings

“…A ten-item short version of the Proactive Personality Scale was used for proactive personality (Bateman and Crant, 1993; Seibert et al , 2001), ( α = 0.88). These scales have been used with Indian respondents and have reported good reliability and validity (Areepattamannil et al , 2011; Lochab and Nath, 2019). The measures were translated into the local language, checked by back-translation into English and then piloted with a small group of 11 teachers.…”

Measuring Career Adaptability in a Sample of Italian University Students: Psychometric Properties and Relations with the Age, Gender, and STEM/No STEM Courses

“…The results showed how proactive personality affects learning ability and strengthens social capital and future orientation, self-directed career management, successful job searches, the results of the socialization process of newbies in organizations, career success, job satisfaction, well-being, and the effectiveness of the leadership process (Ashford and Black 1996;Bateman and Crant 1993;Crant 2000;de Guzman and Choi 2013;Frese et al 2007;Ryff and Singer 2008;Seibert et al 2001;Soresi et al 2012;Spitzmuller et al 2015;Valls et al 2020;Uy et al 2015;Zheng et al 2020). Furthermore, being proactive supports a boundaryless career mindset Jackson 1996;Lochab and Nath 2020;Mirvis and Hall 1996), and has a strong influence on the perception of career self-efficacy (Brown et al 2006;Frese and Fay 2001;Kim and Park 2017). Bocciardi and colleagues (Bocciardi et al 2017), for example, link the proactive personality to a high ability to make optimal career decisions and an overall improvement in professional life (Parker et al 2006).…”

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“…The Boundaryless Mindset Scale (BLM) was developed by Briscoe and colleagues ) and validated in Italy by Lo Presti and colleagues (Lo Presti et al 2011) as one of the factors of the Boundaryless Career Attitude Scale . This tool has been validated in many countries [for example, in Spain by Lochab and Nath (2020); in France by Stauffer et al (2019); in Turkey by Çakmak-Otluo glu and Bolat (2020); in the Philippines by Bernardo and Salanga (2019)]. The scale is defined by 8 items, rated on a 5-step Likert scale (from one-strongly agree-to five-strongly disagree).…”

Meta-skills development needs assessment among undergraduate students

“…Meta-skills or meta-cognitive attributes are important characteristics for the 21st century that foster a growth mindset or attitude that makes people enthusiastic about learning and enjoy solving problems and developing new and challenging competencies, which leads to lifelong learning that helps prepare individuals for future change ( Bridges, 1993 ; Lochab and Nath, 2019 ; Loshkareva et al., 2018 ; Razzetti, 2018 ; Saunders et al., 2000 ; Senova, 2020 ; Stephen et al., 2020 ). Whilst the concept of meta-skills is relatively new, there are several definitions in the literature, all broadly similar.…”