Powering Workplace Proactivity

How to Build a Future-Focused, Change-Oriented Culture
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-76735-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Empowering, customizable, and backed by organizational research, this book introduces the PROACTIVE work design model and diagnostic tool to help organizations create optimal conditions for proactivity at work to flourish.

The pressures and expectations of 21st-century life have led to short-term, reactive behavior in the workplace, however, long-term business success relies on proactive behavior, which is self-directed, future-focused, and change-orientated. But proactivity does not occur in a vacuum – it is a complex, social process heavily affected by contextual and situational factors. With its distinct and flexible design model, this book solves the problem of ‘how’ to create the optimal conditions for proactivity at work to flourish, and to drive sustainability and competitive advantage. And its diagnostic feature recognizes that readers are time-pressured and may already be doing some things well within their organizations, so it offers a solution to their problems without having to read the entire book before they can start making a difference. Uniquely, this book recognizes how important it is for leaders to shape the work environment and to be a positive role model to stimulate employee proactive behavior.

Intended as a practical resource, this book provides a range of evidence-based tools and techniques and includes insightful case studies that will be useful for leaders, managers, HR professionals, OD practitioners, and consultants who want to drive proactive behaviors within their organizations.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Joanne

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments. Part One – Proactivity at Work. Introduction – The Inspiration for This Book. Chapter 1: What Is Proactivity at Work and Why Is It Important Chapter 2: Proactive Motivation. Chapter 3: How Does Your Organization Shape Up? Part Two – PROACTIVE Work Design Model. Chapter 4: Psychological Safety. Chapter 5: Role and Remit. Chapter 6: Organizational Fairness. Chapter 7: Autonomy. Chapter 8: Communication. Chapter 9: Time. Chapter 10: Influence. Chapter 11: Values and motivation. Chapter 12: Energy. Part Three – Diversity in Focus. Introduction – Through Different Lenses. Chapter 13: The Under-Recognized Voice. Chapter 14: Implications Of an Aging Workforce. Chapter 15: The Neurodivergent Lens.

Über Autor(innen)

Joanne Gray, Chief Progressivist at The Progress Lab, is a business psychologist and EMCC-accredited executive coach who embodies proactivity. With a focus on understanding and harnessing human motivation, she helps leaders and organizations unlock their full potential. She holds a Professional Doctorate in Occupational Psychology from Birkbeck, University of London, UK.