Psychological and Behavioral Responses of Leaders toward Proactive Behaviors from Subordinates

Subjects: Psychology >> Applied Psychology Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2021-11-05

郭玉冬 欧琪雯 段锦云

Abstract： Employee proactive behaviors have received extensive attention from scholars and practitioners for its benefits to the actors and their organizations. Previous studies mainly focused on its effect on employees, and left interpersonal effect (leaders’ responses) underdeveloped. Given the essential role of subordinates in the leadership process, it is necessary to review how, when and why employees’ proactive behaviors shape their leader’s psychological responses and enrich our understanding about proactive behaviors. Drawing upon attribution theory, implicit followership theory and self-other rating agreement theory, scholars have initially explored the function mechanisms and found that employees’ proactive behaviors will stimulate leaders’ different responses at different conditions. It is worthwhile to further explore leaders’ responses to proactive behaviors from subordinate, the reciprocal relationship between employee proactive behaviors and leadership, psychological process linking proactive behaviors with performance appraisal, in the future. "

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