Abstract
This study aims at measuring the relationship between career development tools and proactive behaviour using self-report questionnaires collected from workers at an oil and gas service company in Peninsular Malaysia. The results of linear regression analysis displayed two major findings: first, job autonomy was positively and significantly related to proactive behaviour. Second, transformational leadership was positively and significantly related to proactive behaviour. In overall, this result demonstrates that the career development tools act as an important predictor of employees’ proactive behavior in the organizational sample. Further, this study provides discussion, implications and conclusion.Keywords: Career Development Tools, Proactive Behavior, Malaysia, SPSS
Highlights
Career program is often seen as an important function of human resource development and management (Azman, et al, 2015; Wong, et al, 2017)
The questionnaires had 41 items, which related to three variables: job autonomy (JOTY) (17 items), transformational leadership (TRLP) (15 items), and proactive behaviour (PROB) (9 items)
The result of this study shows that career development tools act as an important predictor of proactive behavior
Summary
Career program is often seen as an important function of human resource development and management (Azman, et al, 2015; Wong, et al, 2017). It refers to the role of human resource managers in designing and administering the entire stage, process, attitude, behavior and situation which related to employees’ work well-being in organizations (Antoniu, 2010; Gomez-Mejia, Balkin & Cardy, 2016). A review of the recent literature pertaining to human resource development shows that the design of career programs will not achieve its aim if management does not have capabilities to appropriately implement career development tools in organizations (Hadjisolomou, 2015; Bocciardi, et al, 2017). According to many scholars like Sia and Appu (2015), Rono and Kiptum (2017), Anitha and Aruna (2016), state that career development consists of two influential tools: job autonomy and transformational leadership
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