How does the social context fuel the proactive fire? A multilevel review and theoretical synthesis

The role of social context (e.g., leadership, team climate, and organizational support) in shaping employee proactive behavior has received considerable attention and has been investigated across multiple forms of proactive behavior. However, the research has not been well integrated. In this review...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of organizational behavior Jg. 40; H. 2; S. 209 - 230
Hauptverfasser: Cai, Zijun, Parker, Sharon K., Chen, Zhijun, Lam, Wing
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chichester Wiley (Variant) 01.02.2019
Wiley Periodicals Inc
Schlagworte:
Behavior
Employees
Leadership
multilevel
Organizational behavior
Organizational change
Organizational support
proactive behavior
proactive motivation model
Proactivity
social context
Social environment
Social factors
Synthesis
Teams
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Work environment
ISSN:0894-3796, 1099-1379
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Zusammenfassung:The role of social context (e.g., leadership, team climate, and organizational support) in shaping employee proactive behavior has received considerable attention and has been investigated across multiple forms of proactive behavior. However, the research has not been well integrated. In this review, we adopt a multilevel approach to synthesize what is known about how social context factors influence employees’ proactive behavior, as well as what mechanisms underpin these effects. Our analyses show that leader-, team-, and organization-related social context factors mainly influence employee proactivity through shaping “reason to,” “can do,” and “energized to” states (i.e., proactive motivational states) via individual-, team-, and cross-level processes. That has been most frequently investigated is the effect of the discretionary social context, particularly leadership, on proactive behavior. We also review the interaction effects between social context factors and other factors on employee proactive behavior and found inconsistent support for the motivational-fit perspective that stimuli with the same directions enhance each other’s effect. We offer a research agenda to advance theoretical insights on this important topic.
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ISSN:0894-3796
1099-1379
DOI:10.1002/job.2347