상사의 불간섭 행동과 부하의 주도적 경력행동

Supervisor’s Noninterference Behavior and Subordinate’s Career Proactive Behavior: The Mediating Role of Career Self-efficacy and the Moderating Role of Needs-Supplies Fit

Purpose - This study is to examine the antecedents of proactive career behavior in organizations. First, the study investigates how a supervisor’s noninterference behavior may impact subordinates’ proactive career behavior. Second, the study examines the mediating mechanisms of career self-efficacy between a supervisor’s noninterference behavior and a subordinate’s proactive career behavior. Third, needs-supplies fit is examined as an enhancing factor in the relationship between a supervisor’s noninterference behavior and subordinates’ proactive career behavior. Design/Methodology/Approach - Hypotheses for this study were tested using data from full-time 370 employees located in South Korea. Data were collected through on-line survey company. This study conducted empirical analysis of a supervisor’s noninterference behavior, and career self-efficacy as the antecedents of proactive career behavior, and the needs-supplies fit as a moderator. Findings - Studies have shown that the supervisor’s noninterference behavior has a significant impact on the subordinate’s proactive career behavior. In particular, the discovery of the mediating effect of career self-efficacy enriched the study of career proactivity. However, the moderating effect of the needs-supplies fit was not supported. Nevertheless, it was found that the needs-supplies fit itself was a antecedent for proactive career behavior. Research Implications - First of all, this study proposes the importance of supervisor’s noninterference behavior on subordinate’s proactivity. Also, the result of mediating effect have implied that career self-efficacy may be a linking mechanism between a supervisor’s noninterference behavior and subordinates’s proactive career behavior.