Does taking charge help or harm employees’ promotability and visibility? An investigation from supervisors’ status perspective.
研究了上级的地位追求动机如何影响其对主动担责员工的评价，发现高地位追求动机的上级更可能认为主动担责的员工有助于提升自身地位，从而给予更高可晋升性和可见性评价。
Taking charge is an important form of proactive behavior that sustains organizational survival and success. Despite considerable research on how to encourage employees to take charge, little is known about whether and when supervisors will evaluate those who take charge as more or less promotable and visible. Building on and extending the theoretical notion of dyadic complementary fit, we propose that, compared with lower status-goal-striving supervisors, higher status-goal-striving supervisors regard those who take charge as helping enhance their status in the organization more (i.e., a dyadic fit condition) and subsequently evaluate these employees as more promotable and visible. In a vignette-based experiment using 175 U.S.-based supervisors (Study 1), a two-wave field survey among 143 supervisor-subordinate dyads in a hotel (Study 2), and a three-wave survey among 294 supervisor-subordinate dyads in various organizations and industries in China (Study 3), we find support for our predictions. The findings have important implications for proactivity theory and practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).