Welcome to the club? Unethical behavior and proactivity in promotion and derailment decisions
研究从组织决策者视角出发，发现管理者主动性通过匹配领导原型促进晋升、抑制脱轨，但若伴随不道德行为，主动性的积极效应会被抵消，解释了为何有些主动型管理者反而脱轨。
Summary Challenging research that touts positive career outcomes for proactive individuals, this study takes the organizational decision‐maker's perspective and draws on tournament theory to qualify and better understand the link between manager proactivity and subsequent promotion into the executive ranks. Results from three studies support a moderated mediation model wherein proactivity is associated with leader schema matching, which, in turn, enhances promotion and inhibits derailment. However, the positive effects of proactivity are nullified when managers also engage in unethical behavior, which operates as a boundary condition on the indirect relations between proactivity and subsequent job mobility. These findings help explain why some proactive managers are derailed rather than promoted into senior leadership.