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Personal initiative: An active performance concept for work in the 21st century (2001)
| Venue: | RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR |
| Citations: | 89 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Frese01personalinitiative:,
author = {Michael Frese and Doris Fay},
title = { Personal initiative: An active performance concept for work in the 21st century},
booktitle = { RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR},
year = {2001},
pages = {133--188},
publisher = {}
}
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Abstract
This article reports on the development of a concept of personal initiative (PI). Personal initiative is a work behavior defined as self-starting and proactive that overcomes barriers to achieve a goal. It is argued that future workplaces will require people to show more PI than before, and that current concepts of performance and organizational behavior are more reactive than desirable. The facets of PI are developed along the lines of goals, information collection, plans, and feedback. Personal initiative enables people to deal with job difficulties more actively, for example, with stressors, unemployment, career changes, or becoming an entrepreneur. High PI changes the work situation of employees and relates to success as an entrepreneur. Personal initiative is seen to sharpen and partly modify the concepts of reciprocal determinism, organizational citizenship behavior, innovation, entrepreneurship, work performance, intrinsic motivation, and self-regulation.
Keyphrases
personal initiative active performance concept high pi elizabeth morrison radical change situation work situation bob wood intrinsic motivation deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft prior version organizational behavior future workplace work performance george bernhard shaw project ahus reciprocal determinism information collection aktives handeln principal investigator current concept organizational citizenship behavior einer umbruch-situation-active action dan ilgen personal initiative enables people job difficulty career change
