期刊名称：Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
电子版ISSN：1175-2882
出版年度：2016
卷号：17
期号：3
页码：309-323
出版社：New Zealand Association for Cooperative Edcuation
摘要：Proactive dispositions are increasingly becoming a prerequisite qualification for employment across occupations, whilst concurrently internships are increasingly viewed by employers and graduates as a preferred entry point into a range of professional occupations. To date, however, these two contemporary trends have not been examined simultaneously. This study investigates how intern proactive dispositions interact with intern-supervisor exchange relationships, to produce key internship outcomes. The study collected two waves of longitudinal data from both interns and supervisors, representing 303 intern-supervisor dyads (n=303). The findings indicate that an intern’s proactive dispositions predicted high quality intern-supervisor exchange, and consequently this exchange mediated the influence of intern proactive personality on both intern in-role performance and intern-satisfaction. These findings highlight important parallels between interns and newcomer employee’s experiences of organizational life, and advocate the reconceptualization of internships from a host organization perspective as an employee recruitment and selection context.
关键词：University to work transition; proactive personality; leader-member exchange; internships
