Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T14:35:47.756Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Word Is Out: We Need an Active Performance Concept for Modern Workplaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Michael Frese
Michael Frese*
Affiliation:
Justus-Liebig University of Giessen
*
Web site: www.frese.org, Address: Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Evidence-Based Management and Entrepreneurship, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel-Str. 10F, D-35394 Giessen, Germany
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Commentaries
Information
Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 67 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

*

Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Evidence-Based Management and Entrepreneurship, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen

References

Ashford, S. J., & Black, J. S. (1996). Proactivity during organizational entry: The role of desire for control. Journal of Applied Psychology, 81, 199–214.Google Scholar
Baer, M., & Frese, M. (2003). Innovation is not enough: Climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 24, 45–68.Google Scholar
Bateman, T. S., & Crant, J. M. (1993). The proactive component of organizational behavior: A measure and correlates. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 14, 103–118.Google Scholar
Bridges, W. (1995). Jobshift. London: Allen & Unwin.Google Scholar
Crant, J. M. (1995). The proactive personality scale and objective job performance among real estate agents. Journal of Applied Psychology, 80, 532–537.Google Scholar
Fay, D., & Sonnentag, S. (2002). Rethinking the effects of stressors: A longitudinal study on personal initiative. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 7, 221–234.Google Scholar
Frese, M., Kring, W., Soose, A., & Zempel, J. (1996). Personal initiative at work: Differences between East and West Germany. Academy of Management Journal, 39, 37–63.Google Scholar
Grant, A. M., & Ashford, S. J. (2007). The dynamics of proactivity at work. Research in Organizational Behavior.Google Scholar
Griffin, M. A., Neal, A., & Parker, S. K. (2007). A new model of work role performance: Positive behavior in uncertain and interdependent contexts. Academy of Management Journal, 50, 327–347.Google Scholar
Ilgen, D. R., & Pulakos, E. D. (Eds.). (1999). The changing nature of performance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Google Scholar
Kahn, W. A. (1990). Psychological conditions of personal engagement and disengagement at work. Academy of Management Journal, 33, 692–724.Google Scholar
Koop, S., De Reu, T., & Frese, M. (2000). Sociodemographic factors, entrepreneurial orientation, personal initiative, and environmental problems in Uganda. In Frese, M. (Ed.), Success and failure of microbusiness owners in Africa: A psychological approach (pp. 55–76). Westport, CT: Quorum.Google Scholar
Krauss, S. I., Frese, M., Friedrich, C., & Unger, J. (2005). Entrepreneurial orientation and success: A psychological model of success in southern African small scale business owners. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 14, 315–344.Google Scholar
Macey, W. H., & Schneider, B. (2008). The meaning of employee engagement. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 1, 3–30.Google Scholar
Maslach, C., Schaufeli, W. B., & Leiter, M. P. (2001). Job burnout. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 397–422.Google Scholar
Miron, E., Erez, M., & Naveh, E. (2004). Do personal characteristics and cultural values that promote innovation, quality, and efficiency compete or complement each other? Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25, 175–199.Google Scholar
Utsch, A., & Rauch, A. (2000). Innovativeness and initiative as mediators between achievement orientation and venture performance. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 9, 45–62.Google Scholar