PROAKTIVNOST I LOKUS KONTROLE U MENADŽERA
PROACTIVITY AND LOCUS OF CONTROL IN MANAGERS

Summary/Abstract: The construct of proactive personality has been used in a larger number of researches aiming to investigate various forms of organizational behaviour and the results of such behaviour. Crant (2000) refers to researches confirming the relation of proactive dimension and individual work and career success, leadership, organizational initiative, team achievement and business behaviour. The objective of this research was to investigate possible differences between the managers in some Croatian firms and their colleagues of equal academic education not working in executive positions (here referred to as non-managers) in terms of their proactivity and locus of control, the personality dimensions often used when investigating job success, organizational behaviour and career management. A total of 118 subjects (60 managers and 58 non-managers) divided in three groups according to the length of their working career participated in the study. Factor analysis of the Proactivity Questionnaire P1 (Zarevski, 2001) resulted in two independent factors Proneness to change and Proneness to planning. The results were, therefore, interpreted according to these findings. Rotter's RI-E scale (external versus internal reinforcement) was used in assessing the subject's locus of control.

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