PROACTIVE PERSONALITY: IMPACT ON WORK OUTCOMES AND MEDIATORS/ PERSONALITY AND WORKING REMOTELY: IMPACT ON WORK OUTCOMES AND KEY MEDIATORS AND MODERATORS

Abstract

The present research employs a prospective study design to: (a) verify known relations between proactive personality, crafting behaviours, and work outcomes, (b) provide the first known examination of which crafting behaviours mediate the dispositional proactivity- work outcomes relationships, and (c) explore moderated mediation hypotheses on whether work autonomy perceptions or telecommuting intensity moderates the dispositional proactivity-work outcomes relationships, through their influence on crafting behaviours. Singapore employees on full-time working arrangements (n = 310) participated in a four-wave online survey study. Dispositional proactivity predicted heightened expansion-oriented job crafting and leisure crafting over a month. These crafting behaviours subsequently predicted greater work engagement and lower burnout. Partial support was found for the mediational hypotheses, with expansion-oriented job crafting mediating the dispositional proactivity- work outcomes relationships. However, leisure crafting did not mediate these relationships. The study also established positive associations between telecommuting intensity and work autonomy perceptions, and demonstrated that work autonomy perceptions predicted increased job crafting. However, the moderated mediation hypotheses were unsupported. Overall, the findings deepened our theoretical understanding on how dispositional proactivity influences crafting behaviours and work outcomes in an integrative framework, which carries critical implications for organisational strategies to improve employee job performance and well-being.