Proactivity in Career Development and Smart Education: Analyzing the Mediating Role of Proactive Personality (Case study: one of the industrial organizations in the field of defense)

One of the most important career development strategies is to promote education. Smart education is planning for career advancement through purposeful upgrading of education. Having a long-term perspective and a proactive personality trait can be effective in achieving a smart education. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of proactivity in career development on the smart education of employees of one of the industrial organizations in the field of defense with the mediating role of proactive personality. The method of the present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the study was the employees of one of the industrial organizations in the field of defense and Based on random sampling, 225 of them were selected as the sample. SPSS and AMOS software were used for data analysis. Questionnaires (Presbytero 2015; Tikhmiro 2015; Ink and Liu 2016) were used to measure the research variables, the reliability of which was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. The results of data analysis show that proactivity in career development has a direct and indirect effect on the smart education of employees through both direct and indirect proactive personality mediation. The results of research in the field of career path development have brought innovations and help managers of companies and organizations to understand the impact of proactivity approach in career path development on smart education of employees through the mediation of proactive personality