Employee Proactivity in Organizations: A Comparative Meta-Analysis of Emergent Proactive Constructs

By Jeffrey Thomas, Daniel S. Whitman, C. Viswesvaran. 2010

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Within-Person Fluctuations of Proactive Behavior: How Affect and Experienced Competence Regulate Work Behavior (2012, background): “Similarly, the meta-analytic finding that between-person variation in proactivity is positively related to between-person variation in task performance ( Thomas, Whitman, & Viswesvaran, 2010 ) may not hold when looking at within-person variation of proactivity.”
When Voice Matters (2015, background): “In the proactive work behavior literature, the relationships between challenging and change- and improvement-oriented voice and job attitudes are also positive (job satisfaction: rcorrected = .20; affective organizational commitment: rcorrected = .25; Thomas et al., 2010).”
Proactive motivation and engagement in career behaviors: Investigating direct, mediated, and moderated effects (2013, background): “Previous research established direct effects of proactive personality on proactive behaviors (Fuller & Marler, 2009; Thomas et al., 2010) and the current study adds to this literature by showing that the effects on career engagement are partially mediated by higher self-efficacy beliefs.”
A meta-analysis on promotion- and prevention-focused job crafting (2018, background): “For example, research on proactivity so far has predominantly focused on the positive effects of promotion-focused proactive work behaviours on work performance (Thomas et al., 2010; Tornau & Frese, 2013).”
Personal Initiative and Job Performance Evaluations: Role of Political Skill in Opportunity Recognition and Capitalization (2017, background): “Previous research has documented favorable (Thomas et al., 2010) bivariate relationships between personal initiative and evaluations of work performance (Thompson, 2005).”
Proactive Personality and Job Satisfaction: the Mediating Effects of Self-Efficacy and Work Engagement in Teachers (2017, background): “Other factors such as work motivation (Li and Wang 2014) and job affection (Thomas et al. 2010), may play important role in this relation.”
Career adaptivity, adaptability, and adapting: A conceptual and empirical investigation (2015, background): “Meta-analyses have shown that proactive personality is positively related to networking behaviors and career initiative, as well as subjective and objective indicators of career success (Fuller & Marler, 2009; Thomas et al., 2010). Tolentino et al. (2014) also conceptualized proactivity as a form of”