Proactive Personality and Newcomer Feedback Seeking : The Moderating Roles of Supervisor Feedback and Organizational Justice

This study examined the linkage between proactive personality and feedback seeking among newcomers, and the moderating influence of feedback from supervisors and perceived overall fairness. The results from a sample of 139 Hong Kong new employees revealed a positive relationship between proactive personality and feedback seeking in a longitudinal design. However, the association between them was facilitated by perceived overall fairness and feedback from supervisors. Specifically, the positive relationship between proactive personality and feedback seeking was significant only when both perceived overall fairness and feedback from the supervisor were high