TITLE:
A Review and Prospects of Literature on Proactivity
AUTHORS:
Huishan Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Proactivity, Proactive Personality, Proactive Behavior, Approach-Avoidance Framework
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.2,
February
28,
2020
ABSTRACT: Proactivity refers to the
tendency of individuals to proactively promote the meaning of others and/or the
environment, such as employees proactively proposing solutions, actively
seeking job feedback, and actively innovating. Proactivity is very important for
the development of employees and organizations. Since the domestic scholars Liu
Mi and others and Hu Qing and others have reviewed the relevant research on
employee’s proactive personality and proactive behavior in 2007 and 2011
respectively, other domestic scholars have published relevant employees in
well-known journals at home and abroad. Dozens of proactive research are based on different
theoretical perspectives. This paper firstly reviews the development of
proactivity’s construction, measurement and research methods, then analyzes the
formation and mechanism of proactivity based on two perspectives of personal
characteristics and behavior process, and further proposes the direction and
prospect of future research.