Week 6: Introduction to Proactive Behaviour Flashcards
Proactivity is a _____ process and it is essentially about taking control to…
Proactivity involves ____ and ____ to bring about change in the environment and or oneself to achieve ____.
goal-driven
make things happen, rather than watch them unfold
aspiring and striving
a different future
Proactivity has three attributes. What are they?
self-starting, change-oriented and future-focused
In what ways does proactivity enhance workplace performance and career success?
proactivity helps in terms of
job performance, promotions, rank and salary level (objective), career and job satisfaction (subjective), stress management
More proactive employees may benefit the company in what ways?
more voice, creativity and innovation
A proactive personality is ones tendency to be relatively…
unconstrained by situational forces in effecting environmental change
People high on conscientiousness usually want to achieve what?
they value properly finishing tasks according to rules and guidelines, so they seek to have a good fit between them and the company
What are the individual differences and values enhancing proactive behaviour?
- _____ - the tendency of an individual to be relatively unconstrained by situational forces in effecting environmental change
- _____ - people high on this want to achieve a good fit with the company
- _____ - people high on this may use proactivity to reduce uncertainty and increase a sense of control
- _____ - encompass freedom of thought and change and innovation orientation (proactivity is an expression of these values)
- _____ - positive self-belief enhance motivational states
- _____ - find productivity less risky because they see everything as a learning opportunity and are generally more persistent and quicker to recover from set-backs
- ______ - people high on this usually have higher self-efficacy
- _____ - enhances the individual belief that they can set and strive for proactive goals as well as their reasons to do so (it has a direct effect on goal generation and goal striving and an indirect effect on motivational states)
- proactive personality
- conscientiousness
- desire for control
- openness to change values
- core self-belief
- learning goal orientation
- knowledge, skill and abilities
- positive affect
Those high on desire for control may use proactivity to reduce ____ and increase a _____.
uncertainty, sense of control
Those who score high on openness to change values encompass _____ , _____ and _____ orientation (proactivity is an expression of these values)
freedom of though, change, innovation
Those with a high core self-belief are likelier to….
enhance motivational and proactivity states
Those with high learning goal orientation find proactivity less risky, because…
they see everything as a learning opportunity and are generally more persistent and quicker to recover from negative setbacks
Those with high knowledge, skills and activities usually also have higher ____.
self-efficacy
Those with strong positive affect have an enhanced belief that they can…
set and strive for proactive goals
Name 4 contextual variables affecting proactive behaviour.
work design
job stressors
leadership
interpersonal climate and social processes
Name three ways in which work design affects proactive behaviour?
enriched jobs influence perceptions of control over the work environment and self-efficacy and thus influence the ‘can do’ proactive motivation mindset
enriched jobs create conditions under which individuals experience enjoyment and flow and are thus intrinsically motivated to be proactive in their work (reason-to)
enriched jobs promote energised states (energised-to)
