4. Personal initiative: An active performance concept for work in the 21st century

By Michael Frese, D. Fay. 2001

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Received Respect and Constructive Voice: The Roles of Proactive Motivation and Perspective Taking (2019, background): “However, like other forms of proactivity, voice involves psychological hurdles because others may not welcome it (Burris, 2012; Frese & Fay, 2001).”
Moderators of the Relationship Between Leadership Style and Employee Creativity: The Role of Task Novelty and Personal Initiative (2013, background): “Second, intellectual stimulation meets the need to anticipate problems and opportunities and react proactively about them (Frese & Fay, 2001).”
Beyond top‐down and bottom‐up work redesign: Customizing job content through idiosyncratic deals (2010, background): “Initiative is defined as the future-oriented, persistent pursuit of individual and organizational goals (Frese & Fay, 2001).”
Active on the Job—Proactive in Change (2007, background): “PI differs from other concepts related to self-initiated active worker behavior such as organizational citizenship (Organ, 1988): PI goes beyond mere overfulfillment of existing roles or organizational values (Frese & Fay, 2001; Parker, 1998), manifesting in novel behaviors in pursuit of goals.”
Unfolding the Proactive Process for Creativity (2012, background): “With the goal of effecting constructive changes (Frese & Fay, 2001), proactive employees may interact with others to exchange information in order to identify opportunities (Crant, 1995).”
Proactive Personality and Innovative Work Behavior: the Mediating Effects of Affective States and Creative Self-Efficacy in Teachers (2016, background): “…proactive personality has been noted as an important factor for predicting positive affect and creative self-efficacy (Bergeron et al. 2014; Frese and Fay 2001; Ng et al. 2005; Seibert et al. 1999), thus, it was hypothesized that the relationship between a proactive personality and…”
Knowledge and entrepreneurial employees: a country-level analysis (2013, background): “ial employee activity, and this individual should be in a leading role in the recognition of the opportunity or the pursuit of the opportunity, emphasizing proactiveness, which has been acknowledged as a key element of entrepreneurial behavior (Crant 2000; Frese and Fay 2001; Parker and Collins 2010”
Employee, manage thyself: The potentially negative implications of expecting employees to behave proactively (2010, background): “Much of the research in this area has found that proactive behaviours, such as seeking feedback (Ashford et al., 2003), demonstrating initiative (Frese & Fay, 2001), building networks (Ashford & Black, 1996), seeking information (Morrison, 1993a), helping others (Organ, 1988), taking charge…”
The dynamics of proactivity at work (2008, background): “…feedback (Ashford, Blatt, & VandeWalle, 2003; Ashford & Cummings, 1983, 1985), taking initiative in pursuing personal and organizational goals (Frese & Fay, 2001; Roberson, 1990), actively adapting to new environments (Ashford & Black, 1996; Kim, Cable, & Kim, 2005; Saks & Ashforth, 1996;…”
Making Things Happen: A Model of Proactive Motivation (2010, methodology): “A further development has been to recognize that there are likely common motivational processes across different types of proactive behavior, beyond proactive personality as a driver (Crant, 2000; Frese & Fay, 2001; Grant & Ashford, 2008; Parker & Collins, 2010).”
Taking personal initiative and communicating about ideas: What is important for the creative process and for idea creativity? (2007, background): “In addition, PI involves being oriented towards organizational goals (Frese & Fay, 2001).”
Post-retirement work: The individual determinants of paid and volunteer work (2008, neutral): “This 11-item scale was developed to include all of Frese and Fay’s (2001) components of proactivity such as active exploration, planning and monitoring.”
Effective and sustained proactivity in the workplace: A self-determination theory perspective (2014, background): “…& Tag, 1997; Frese, et al., 2002; Frese, Kring, Soose, & Zempel, 1996) identified the concept of personal initiative, an “active performance concept” (Frese & Fay, 2001, p. 133) that captures a constellation of work behaviors defined as selfstarting, proactive and persistent in the face of…”
Staying vigorous until work is over: The role of trait vigour, day-specific work experiences and recovery (2008, background): “For example, employees may show more personal initiative ( Frese & Fay, 2001 ) and other types of proactive behaviour (Grant & Ashford, in press) when they experience a high level of vigour.”