Creating meaning by taking initiative: Proactive work behavior fosters work meaningfulness
Creating meaning by taking initiative: Proactive work behavior fosters work meaningfulness
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通过主动创造意义：积极的工作行为可以培养工作的意义
DOI：
10.1111/apps.12385
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发表时间：
2022
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Urbach
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作者：
Strauss;Schwake;Urbach
我们认为，积极主动的工作行为的未来取向，使个人建立与未来的连接，从而体验他们的工作是有意义的。我们进一步预计，当个人在核心工作中面临未来的不可预测性时，这种影响会增强。我们首先在一个基于情景的实验（n= 140）中确定了积极主动的工作行为对工作意义的影响。第二个实验（n= 116）复制了这一点，也表明这种效果并不是由积极主动的工作行为对他人的好处所驱动的。一项每日日记研究（n= 107，k= 391）表明，日常积极主动的工作行为与日常工作的意义呈正相关，而且这种影响再次独立于使他人受益。结果还证实，当一个人的工作具有未来不可预测性时，这种关系更强。我们的研究结果强调了员工对工作体验的积极作用，并表明鼓励积极主动的工作行为可能是促进工作意义的一种途径。
We argue that proactive work behavior's future orientation allows individuals to establish a connection with the future and thus to experience their work as meaningful. We further expect that this effect is enhanced when individuals are faced with an unpredictability of the future in their core job.We tested our hypotheses in three independent studies with employees. We first established the effect of proactive work behavior on work meaningfulness in a scenario‐based experiment (n= 140). A second experiment (n= 116) replicated this and also demonstrated that the effect was not driven by the benefits of proactive work behavior to others. A daily diary study (n= 107,k= 391) showed that day‐level proactive work behavior was positively associated with daily work meaningfulness and that this effect was again independent from having benefitted others. The results also confirmed that this relationship was stronger when an individual's job was characterized by unpredictability of the future. Our findings highlight the active role employees play for the experience of work as meaningful and suggests that encouraging proactive work behavior may be one avenue to promote work meaningfulness.