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JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Proactive and Committed: Characteristics for Retention
Author(s): Whitney Botsford Morgan, Sarah Singletary Walker, Yingchun Wang, Forrest F. Aven, Jr.
Citation: Whitney Botsford Morgan, Sarah Singletary Walker, Yingchun Wang, Forrest F. Aven, Jr., (2012) "Proactive and Committed: Characteristics for Retention," Journal of Organizational Psychology, Vol. 12, Iss. 2, pp. 97 - 108
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
The purposes of this study are to examine the relation between proactive personality and intention to
leave a career and to test a boundary condition (i.e., career commitment) in which the effect does and
does not hold. Participants consist of 1,527 full-time working adults from multiple organizations in the oil
and gas industry. Results reveal a negative relation between proactive personality and intentions to leave
a career that is moderated by career commitment. This finding suggests that career commitment may be
an increasingly important construct to examine when considering various forms of turnover.
