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    Is leader proactivity enough: Importance of leader competency in shaping team role breadth efficacy and proactive performance

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    Authors
    Chiu, C.Y.
    Wu, C.H.
    Bartram, A.
    Parker, Sharon
    Lee, C.
    Date
    2023
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Chiu, C.Y. and Wu, C.H. and Bartram, A. and Parker, S.K. and Lee, C. 2023. Is leader proactivity enough: Importance of leader competency in shaping team role breadth efficacy and proactive performance. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 143: 103865.
    Source Title
    Journal of Vocational Behavior
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103865
    ISSN
    0001-8791
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    School
    Future of Work Institute
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/93201
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The present study is designed to investigate how leader proactive personality and competency jointly relate to team proactivity. Drawing on social cognitive theory, we hypothesize that proactive yet incompetent leaders diminish the magnitude and enhance the dispersion of team role breadth efficacy, defined as the collective confidence to engage in a range of integrative, interpersonal, and proactive tasks, which lowers team proactive performance. The test of the hypotheses, based on two waves of surveys of members of 66 professional work teams and their leaders, reveals three main findings. First, leaders' proactive personality is negatively associated with the magnitude and positively related to the dispersion of team role breadth efficacy when their competency is low. Second, proactive personality is positively associated with the magnitude, but not the dispersion, of team role breadth efficacy if their competency is high. Third, the leader proactivity-competency interactive effect relates positively to team proactive performance, through the mediation of the optimal configuration of team role breadth efficacy (high magnitude + low dispersion). This study thus highlights the need to consider both proactive personality and competency for team management and their implications for leaders' own career success.

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