Practical tips for promoting proactivity in the workplace.
According to a new research, employees with empowering leaders are more proactive. This is the first study that demonstrates this effect that causes due to increasing role breadth self-efficacy. In other words, it occurs due to the confidence to do a variety of tasks beyond the job description.
Scientists also demonstrated that when subordinates trust the leader's competency, the leader's power-sharing behavior increases the subordinates' role breadth self-efficacy.
In contrast, scientists suggest that when subordinates confide in the pioneer's competency, it is less important for the pioneer to share their energy to rouse proactive practices.
Many studies suggest that proactive behaviors can improve organizational creativity, effectiveness, and competitiveness as well. Although, it is associated with empowering leadership, where managers share power with their subordinates and grant them a fair amount of autonomy.
Those studies had demonstrated the efficiency of proactive behaviors. But, the details of how empowering leadership influences proactivity remains concealed.
For detail analysis, scientists employed 280 leader-follower dyads from a large state-owned Chinese company. They evaluated the level of engaging initiative in bosses, while subordinates were surveyed for proactive conduct, confide in pioneer fitness, proactive identity, and part broadness self-adequacy.
They found that empowering leadership is linked to proactive behavior. It works by sharing power leads to higher role breadth self-efficacy in subordinates, which in turn encourages their proactive behavior.
In addition, the study recommends that it is not essential for trusted pioneers to share their energy keeping in mind the end goal to inspire subordinates' proactive practices.