From Passive to Proactive Motivation: The Importance of Flexible Role Orientations and Role Breadth Self-efficacy

Despite the widely held belief that a proactive workforce is necessary for competitive advantage, research investigating how to assess and promote such change is limited. Two potentially important precursors to proactivity include flexible role orientation (FRO) and role breadth self‐efficacy (RBSE)...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied psychology 2000-07, Vol.49 (3), p.447-469
1. Verfasser: Parker, Sharon
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Despite the widely held belief that a proactive workforce is necessary for competitive advantage, research investigating how to assess and promote such change is limited. Two potentially important precursors to proactivity include flexible role orientation (FRO) and role breadth self‐efficacy (RBSE). These concepts have been shown to have construct validity and to be distinct from related dispositional variables, but their discriminant validity in terms of outcome variables has not been demonstrated. In this article, I show that FRO and RBSE are factorially distinct from outcomes commonly used in organisational research (job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and job strain). I also show that, as expected, the proactive motivation and traditional outcome variables have different relationships with various predictor variables. I outline the study implications, and suggest a broader research agenda on proactive motivation. En de´pit de la conviction largement re´pandue qu’une force de travail proactive est ne´cessaire pour faire face a` la concurrence, les recherches portant sur l’e´valuation et la promotion de tels changements sont en nombre limite´. Deux de´terminants virtuellement importants de la proactivite´ sont la disposition a` la flexibilite´ de rôle (FRO) et l’efficacite´ de l’ampleur du rôle (RBSE). Ces concepts be´ne´ficient d’une validite´ de construction et se diffe´rencient de variables psychologiquement proches, mais leur validite´ discriminante en terme de variables de´pendantes n’a pas e´te´ prouve´e. Je montre dans cet article que la FRO et la RBSE sont factoriellement distinctes des V.D. couramment utilise´es en psychologie des organisations (satisfaction professionnelle, implication vis‐a`‐vis de l’organisation, effort de´ploye´). Je montre aussi que la motivation proactive et les classiques variables de´pendantes ont comme pre´vu des relations qui leur sont propres avec les diffe´rent pre´dicteurs. J’en esquisse les impacts sur la recherche et dresse un programme d’investigation plus vaste qui porterait sur la motivation proactive.
ISSN:0269-994X
1464-0597
DOI:10.1111/1464-0597.00025