臺大管理論叢 NTU Management Review VOL.29 NO.3

The Mediating Effect of Glass Ceiling Beliefs in the Relationship between Women’s Personality Traits and Their Subjective Career Success 206 Openness to experience is related to creativity and an artistic approach (Tupes and Christal, 1961). Openness to experience leads to intellectual stimulation and creativity, which are instrumental to the career success of employees (Costa Jr and McCrae, 2013; Judge et al., 1999). On the other hand, people with less openness to experience are traditional and conventional and not curious about the world (Tupes and Christal, 1961). Past researchers also find a significant relationship between openness to experience and career success (Judge et al., 1999). We argue that in the case of female employees, desire for success and achievement orientation lead to optimism in the form of denial and resilience, and vice versa. Therefore, we offer the following proposition: Proposition 5: Women’s glass ceiling beliefs mediate the relationship between openness to experience and their subjective career success such that a high level of openness to experience increases resilience and denial and decreases acceptance and resignation, which in turn increases subjective career success. Resilience Denial Acceptance Resignation Personality Traits Glass Ceiling Beliefs Subjective Career Success Extroversion Agreeableness Conscientious- ness Emotional Stability Openness to Experience Figure 1 Proposed Mediation Model