What It Takes to Get Proactive: An Integrative Multilevel Model of the Antecedents of Personal Initiative

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hong, Ying; Liao, Hui; Raub, Steffen; Han, Joo Hun
• 署名单位: Fordham University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Peking University; University of Applied Sciences & Arts Western Switzerland; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/apl0000064
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 687-701
• 关键词: personal initiative; proactive motivational states; initiative climate; EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP; HRM systems

摘要

Building upon and extending Parker, Bindl, and Strauss's (2010) theory of proactive motivation, we develop an integrated, multilevel model to examine how contextual factors shape employees' proactive motivational states and, through these proactive motivational states, influence their personal initiative behavior. Using data from a sample of hotels collected from 3 sources and over 2 time periods, we show that establishment-level initiative-enhancing human resource management (HRM) systems were positively related to departmental initiative climate, which was positively related to employee personal initiative through employee role-breadth self-efficacy. Further, department-level empowering leadership was positively related to initiative climate only when initiative-enhancing HRM systems were low. These findings offer interesting implications for research on personal initiative and for the management of employee proactivity in organizations.