Proactive Personality and Career Success: A Person-organization Fit Perspective

Abstract

Drawing upon the prior Person-Organization Fit literature, this paper reviews the conceptualization and measurement of both proactive personality and career success, and furthermore analyzes the integrative model of them from person-organization fit perspective. Finally, this article maps out future research should be more sensitive to how people achieve great career success by combining situational factors with individual personalities, and replenishes the literature of proactive personality with added moderators and mediators.