To be hit or to lead: Coworkers’ reactions to proactive work behavior in work teams

Melody Jun Zhang; Kenneth S. Law; Lin Wang

To be hit or to lead: Coworkers’ reactions to proactive work behavior in work teams

Melody Jun Zhang, Kenneth S. Law, Lin Wang

Department of Management

Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review

Abstract

Proactive work behavior (PWB) refers to employee's self-initiated and anticipatory actions that aim to bring forth positive change in the immediate work environment. We explore the social consequences of employee proactive work behavior (PWB) in work teams from the lens of coworkers. Employing the warmth-competence model, we investigate how coworkers view and react to focal employee’s proactivity at work and how team context may play a critical role to make a difference. Analysis of multi-wave, multi-source survey data from 237 employees in 59 work teams demonstrated that PWB is positively related to coworkers’ competence perceptions and the focal employee’s informal leadership emergence; however, in work teams with low initiative climate, performing PWBs has a negative relationship with coworkers’ warmth perceptions of and support to the focal employee.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Jun 2019
Event	11th Asia Academy of Management conference, AAOM 2019; 12th Taiwan Academy of Management Conference - The Patra Bali Resort, Bali, Indonesia Duration: 19 Jun 2019 → 21 Jun 2019 https://aaom.asia/index.php/aaom-2019 http://www.taom.org.tw/taom2019/index.html https://ent.aom.org/ent/community/ourdiscussiongroup/viewthread?MessageKey=7bf49e5c-de67-4a85-a7c3-17b164789dc5&CommunityKey=fe00dbd4-230d-471e-a0ed-420a47166316&tab=digestviewer#bm7bf49e5c-de67-4a85-a7c3-17b164789dc5 https://aaom.asia/images/aaom2019/AAOM_2019_Program_FINAL_1904_POSTED.pdf

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Conference	11th Asia Academy of Management conference, AAOM 2019; 12th Taiwan Academy of Management Conference
Abbreviated title	AAOM
Place	Indonesia
City	Bali
Period	19/06/19 → 21/06/19
Internet address	https://aaom.asia/index.php/aaom-2019 http://www.taom.org.tw/taom2019/index.html https://ent.aom.org/ent/community/ourdiscussiongroup/viewthread?MessageKey=7bf49e5c-de67-4a85-a7c3-17b164789dc5&CommunityKey=fe00dbd4-230d-471e-a0ed-420a47166316&tab=digestviewer#bm7bf49e5c-de67-4a85-a7c3-17b164789dc5 https://aaom.asia/images/aaom2019/AAOM_2019_Program_FINAL_1904_POSTED.pdf

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Employee Proactivity
person perception
coworker reactions
workgroups/teams

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To be hit or to lead: Coworkers’ reactions to proactive work behavior in work teams. / Zhang, Melody Jun; Law, Kenneth S.; Wang, Lin.
2019. Paper presented at 11th Asia Academy of Management conference, AAOM 2019; 12th Taiwan Academy of Management Conference, Bali, Indonesia.

Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review

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