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Information Sciences Letters

Information Sciences Letters

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the impact of proactive personality on the innovative work behavior of employees at Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The study applied the descriptive- analytical approach using a survey questionnaire as a main tool for data collection and to answer the research questions as well as to test its hypotheses, where 220 survey were distributed to the employees of this company, and 205 questionnaires were retrieved constituting a response rate of 93.18%. The results of the study showed a positive and statistically significant impact of proactive personality on the four dimensions of innovative work behavior; (opportunity exploration, idea generation, idea promotion, and idea implementation). The results also revealed that there were statistically significant differences between the opinions of those employees about the innovative work behavior of employees that was attributed to to the age variable, while there were no statistically significant differences between their opinions regarding innovative work behavior of employees attributed to the rest of the demographic variables; (gender, years of experience, job level, and educational level). Idea generation was the most positively affected dimensions of innovative work behavior by the proactive personality of these employees, and idea promotion ranked in the third place. This was attributed to that most of the study participants explains to others how a new idea can be applied gradually. Finally, idea implementation was ranked fourth, which may be due to the fact that most of the study participants seek to have their colleagues at work informed about the progress made in realizing the idea. Based on the previous results; a number of recommendations were formulated including; conducting benchmarking with the worlds leading companies in the petrochemical industries to find out the latest developments that these companies have introduced regarding their operational processes and the procedures they follow in all stages of their production lines, as well as involving all company employees in specialized workshops according to each professional domain within the company in which previous models are distributed to them that implies some innovative ideas.

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