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    When and why people engage in different forms of proactive behavior: Interactive effects of self-construals and work characteristics

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    Authors
    Wu, C.
    Parker, Sharon
    Wu, L.
    Lee, C.
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Wu, C. and Parker, S. and Wu, L. and Lee, C. 2018. When and why people engage in different forms of proactive behavior: Interactive effects of self-construals and work characteristics. Academy of Management Journal. 61 (1): pp. 293-323.
    Source Title
    Academy of Management Journal
    DOI
    10.5465/amj.2013.1064
    ISSN
    0001-4273
    School
    Future of Work Institute
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69695
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    When and why do people engage in different forms of proactive behavior at work? We propose that as a result of a process of trait activation, employees with different types of self-construal engage in distinct forms of proactive behavior if they work in environments consistent with their self-construals. In an experimental Study 1 (n 5 61), we examined the effect of self-construals on proactivity and found that people primed with interdependent self-construals engaged in more work unit-oriented proactive behavior when job interdependence was also manipulated. Priming independent self-construals did not enhance career-oriented proactive behavior, even when we manipulated job autonomy. In a field Study 2 (n 5 205), we found that employees with interdependent self-construals working in jobs with high interdependence reported higher work unit commitment and higher work unit-oriented proactive behavior compared to employees in low interdependent jobs. Employees with independent self-construals working in jobs with high autonomy also exhibited stronger career commitment and more careeroriented proactive behavior than did those in jobs with low autonomy. This research offers a theoretical framework to explain how dispositional and situational factors interactively shape people's engagement in different forms of proactive behavior.

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