Employee Proactivity in Organizations: An Attachment Perspective
Chia-Huei Wu
Abstract
What makes some people more likely to initiate positive change within their organizations? Why some employees are more proactive than others? Can this behavior be influenced by management? What supervisors, team managers and organizations can do to promote employees’ proactivity? Employee proactivity has largely been understood in terms of employees changing their environment or changing themselves. People who are proactive envision a better future and take action to achieve it. They should be confident, motivated, and energetic, as it is not always easy to bring about change. Being supported ... More
Keywords: proactivity, attachment theory, organizational behavior, exploration, employee work behavior, relationships at work, attachment security
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9781529200577 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2020 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529200577.001.0001 |
