Proactive personality and employee outcomes: The moderating role of team autonomy
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- proactive personality, employee proactivity, work engagement, helping behavior, team autonomy, self-determination
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We used self-determination theory to investigate the effects of proactive personality on employees’ work engagement and helping behavior, as well as the moderating role of team autonomy in this relationship. Two-wave data were collected from 75 sales teams (75 team leaders and 464 team members) from a large private company in South China. Multilevel path model analysis was used to test our hypotheses. The impact of proactive personality was amplified in teams with a higher level of team autonomy. Our findings not only provide empirical support for self-determination theory, but also contribute to the proactive personality literature by revealing the critical boundary condition of the effectiveness of proactive personality. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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- 2021-06-01
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- Vol. 49 No. 8 (2021)
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