Xu Angela J, Loi Raymond, Chow Cheris W C
School of Management.
Department of Management and Marketing.
J Appl Psychol. 2023 Jan;108(1):53-71. doi: 10.1037/apl0000752. Epub 2022 May 12.
Taking charge is an important form of proactive behavior that sustains organizational survival and success. Despite considerable research on how to encourage employees to take charge, little is known about whether and when supervisors will evaluate those who take charge as more or less promotable and visible. Building on and extending the theoretical notion of dyadic complementary fit, we propose that, compared with lower status-goal-striving supervisors, higher status-goal-striving supervisors regard those who take charge as helping enhance their status in the organization more (i.e., a dyadic fit condition) and subsequently evaluate these employees as more promotable and visible. In a vignette-based experiment using 175 U.S.-based supervisors (Study 1), a two-wave field survey among 143 supervisor-subordinate dyads in a hotel (Study 2), and a three-wave survey among 294 supervisor-subordinate dyads in various organizations and industries in China (Study 3), we find support for our predictions. The findings have important implications for proactivity theory and practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
主动承担责任是一种维持组织生存与成功的重要积极行为形式。尽管在如何鼓励员工主动承担责任方面已有大量研究，但对于上级是否以及何时会将主动承担责任的员工评估为更具晋升潜力和更受关注，我们却知之甚少。基于并扩展二元互补匹配的理论概念，我们提出，与地位目标追求较低的上级相比，地位目标追求较高的上级认为主动承担责任的员工更有助于提升他们在组织中的地位（即二元匹配条件），并随后将这些员工评估为更具晋升潜力和更受关注。在一项针对175名美国上级的基于 vignette 的实验（研究1）、对一家酒店中143对上级 - 下属二元组进行的两波实地调查（研究2）以及对中国不同组织和行业中294对上级 - 下属二元组进行的三波调查（研究3）中，我们的预测得到了支持。这些发现对积极行为理论和实践具有重要意义。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）
