The Influence Of Proactive Personality On Career Succcess Through Political Influence Behavior Of Employees Pt. Bank Sulselbar

The element of trust is the key to win the competition in the field of banking. This research aimed to investigate and analyze the influence of proactive personality on the career success through the political influence behavior. The research approach used was the quantitative approach. The research population was the generalization areas which consisted of a group of objects or subjects made as the sources of the research data. The types of the data comprised the qualitative data and the quantitative data. The data used in the research included the primary and secondary data. The data collection was done through questionnaires, observation, interviews, and documentation. The calculation in the descriptive statistical analysis was performed using the computer program of SPSS package, AMOS version and 19.0 20.0. The research results indicated that a proactive personality had a significant effect on the career success through the Political Influence Behavior. Consequently, at the moment when the proactive personality of the employees of Bank Sulselbar was able to affect the environment, it would raise political influence behavior which would increase the career of the employees.

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