Proactivity at Work Making Things Happen in Organizations

Introduction

1. Proactivity at Work: A Big Picture Perspective on a Construct that Matters Sharon K. Parker and Uta K. Bindl

Part 1: Forms of Proactive Behavior

2. Feedback Seeking Behavior: A Person Environment Fit Perspective Katleen De Stobbeleir, Giverny De Boeck, and Nicky Dries

3. Career Proactivity Sabine Sonnentag

4. A Review of Job Crafting Research: The Role of Leader Behaviors in Cultivating Successful Job Crafters Haijiang Wang, Evangelia Demerouti, and Arnold B. Bakker

5. Safety Proactivity in the Workplace: The Initiative to Improve Individual, Team, and Organizational Safety Matteo Curcuruto and Mark A. Griffin

6. Issue-Selling: Proactive Efforts toward Organizational Change Madeline Ong and Susan J. Ashford

7. Foci of Proactive Behavior Frank D. Belschak and Deanne N. Den Hartog

Part 2: Individual Dynamics of Proactivity

8. Proactive Personality: A Twenty-Year Review J. Michael Crant, Jia Hu, and Kaifeng Jiang

9. Individual Differences in Proactivity: A Developmental Perspective Chia-Huei Wu and Wen-Dong Li

10. Aging and Proactivity Hannes Zacher and Dorien T. A. M. Kooij

11. Proactive Goals and Their Pursuit Thomas S. Bateman

12. An Identity-Based Perspective on Proactivity: Future Work Selves and Beyond Karoline Strauss and Ciara Kelly

13. The ‘Hot’ Side of Proactivity: Exploring an Affect-Based Perspective on Proactivity in Organizations Francesco Cangiano, Uta K. Bindl, and Sharon K. Parker

Part 3: Work and Organizational Antecedents and Outcomes of Proactive Behavior

14. Work Design and Proactivity Sandra Ohly and Antje Schmitt

15. Leadership and Employee Proactivity Deanne N. Den Hartog and Frank D. Belschak

16. Proactive Behavior Training: Theory, Design, and Future Directions Mona Mensmann and Michael Frese

17. Voice Framing and Sensemaking: A Construal-Level Perspective on Proactive Voice Effectiveness Tina Davidson and Linn Van Dyne

18. The Dark Side of Proactive Behavior: When Being Proactive May Hurt Oneself, Others, or the Organization Mark C. Bolino, William H. Turnley, and Heather J. Anderson

19. Teams and Proactivity T. Brad Harris and Bradley L. Kirkman

Conclusion

20. New Perspectives and Directions for Understanding Proactivity in Organizations Uta K. Bindl and Sharon K. Parker

Biography

Sharon K. Parker is a Professor of Management and Organisations at the Business School, University of Western Australia and an Australian Laureate Fellow. She is a world-leading expert on the topic of proactive work behavior.

Uta K. Bindl is an Assistant Professor of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is an expert on the topics of employee proactivity and well-being.

'Proactivity at Work, edited by Parker and Bindl, provides a thoughtful and useful organization of a topic that is of theoretical importance to organizational behavior scholars as well as practical relevance to work organizations. Chapters, which are written by leading scholars from around the world, are likely to stimulate and guide additional work that does not only enhance our understanding of proactivity as an influential scholarly concept, but also connect proactivity to critical organizational practices (such as staffing, training, and mentoring) and phenomena (such as the interface between employees and their leaders and work teams).' – Gilad Chen, Robert H. Smith Chair in Organizational Behavior, the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Editor, Journal of Applied Psychology.

'This is the go-to handbook for research on proactivity. The world’s leading experts to share their frameworks and evidence on the causes, consequences, mechanisms, and boundary conditions of self-starting, change-oriented action.' – Adam Grant, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Originals and Give and Take.