Influences ff Proactive Personality to Employee Innovative Behavior Mediated by Work Engagement of Provincial Revenue Office, North Sulawesi Province

Abstract

Amid rapid social, economic and technological change, the global work environment has undergone significant transformation. Employees around the world are currently faced with increasingly complex and dynamic challenges. Proactive personality has a close correlation with the innovative behavior of employees at the Provincial Revenue Office (BAPENDA) of North Sulawesi Province. The main focus is still focused on how things work and existing regulations, such as bureaucratic reform, revising or reducing regulations that slow down processes, as well as creating useful policies. Efforts are also made to change or adapt work systems to suit and improve quality and effectiveness. Therefore, the proactive personality and innovative behavior of employees not only increases the individual's ability to innovate, but also provides motivation for them to act proactively in seeking and implementing innovative ideas, such as in public services. The aim of the research is to analyze the influence of proactive personality on work engagement and testing the influence of proactive personality and work engagement on employee innovative behavior and testing the mediating influence of work engagement on proactive personality on employee innovative behavior at BAPENDA North Sulawesi Province. The population was 271 employees at BAPENDA North Sulawesi Province and the research sample used the Slovin formula so that there were 170 samples in this study. The analysis method uses a structural equation model with the AMOS version 24 application. The research results show that proactive personality has a positive and significant effect on work engagement. Proactive personality and work engagement have a positive and significant effect on employee innovative behavior at BAPENDA North Sulawesi Province. Apart from that, work engagement can act as a mediator in the relationship between proactive personality and employee innovative behavior at BAPENDA North Sulawesi Province.