Why Does Proactivity Relate to Favourable Employee Attitudes and Behaviours?

Authors

Knowledge@SMU

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

5-2007

Abstract

Responding to fierce global competition for talent, organisations are increasingly developing and using innovative strategies to attract, hire, and retain employees. One strategy aimed at acquiring top-notch talent has been to consider applicants’ personality traits in the hiring process. One personality trait linked to favourable employee behaviours and attitudes is employee proactivity. Integrating several different literatures, Singapore Management University associate professor of organisational behaviour Gary Greguras, and University of Akron assistant professor of psychology James Diefendorff, developed and tested a model which explicates the processes through which proactivity relates to employee job satisfaction, life satisfaction, performance, and organisational citizenship behaviours.

Disciplines

Business | Human Resources Management

Copyright Owner and Holder

Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012

Licece/Creative Commons Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Article ID

1012

Subject(s)

Human Resources

Citation

Knowledge@SMU. Why Does Proactivity Relate to Favourable Employee Attitudes and Behaviours?. (2007).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/138