Proactive Personality as Mediating variable between Career Skills, Servant Leadership and Subjective Career Success of Working Women: A Study from Private Sector Universities of Pakistan

Abstract

Purpose: To examine the effect of career skills and servant-leadership on intrinsic career success with surrogating effect of proactive personality traits. Design/method/approach: Structural equation modeling has been applied to extract the statistical finding by applying MPlus Software. Findings: Proactive personality traits mediates between the relationship of career skills, servant-leadership, and intrinsic career success. Research implications: The model have a look at providing the suggestion for policy makers to hire and train highly educated faculty to participate in servant-leadership for the betterment of career skills and intrinsic career success, which improves institutional performance. Originality: The research study examined the P-E fit theory and the model in this particular context of Pakistan is unique and constructed to suggest policy makers the techniques for advancing the career success of working women in academia.