Empirical test of the moderating role of proactive personality and mediating role of developmental idiosyncratic deals on managing job content plateau

Purpose. This study examines the impact of job content plateau on the professional development of a group of employees. It looks at the likelihood that workers going through a job content plateau would decide to make developmental idiosyncratic bargains to affect their careers. People can handle the adverse effects of job content plateau and boost their career commitment through developmental idiosyncratic deals as an employee's psychological contract for learning new skills. This study evaluated the moderating effect of a proactive personality, which is a component of positive psychology because individuals with proactive personalities are more likely to choose developmental idiosyncratic deals. Study design. By using survey at three points of times, information was gathered from 421 executives working in various industries throughout India. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was performed to evaluate the hypotheses in this case. Findings. According to the study's findings, developmental idiosyncratic deals serve as a mediating factor that can trigger the link between job content plateau and career commitment via proactive personality. In this study, career commitment, proactive personality, developmental idiosyncratic deals, and job content plateau merged into a single model by using empirical data from Indian executives. Implications for practice. Offer some recommendations for increasing employee's career commitment and avoiding job content plateau by facilitating developmental ideals. Research limitations. Indian employees made up the sample of respondents. Additionally, the majority of them are in the middle of their career. These particular characteristics limit how widely other trail samples and countries will adopt these findings. Value of the results. Overall, the model provides a strategy based on applied psychology's developmental aspect and proactive personality to deal with the adverse effects of job content plateau.