TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding proactive leadership
AU - Wu, Chiahuei
AU - Wang, Ying
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This chapter discusses proactive leadership by elaborating the meaning of leaders' proactivity, the required competencies of proactive leadership, and the potentially different evaluations of leaders' proactivity by different observers, including leaders themselves, their supervisors, peers, and subordinates. Specifically, based on the goal generation - goal striving process view of proactivity, we define leaders' proactivity as "generating and enacting self-initiated and future-focused leading actions that are persistently sustained to bring changes toward the environment." In line with the process view, we also propose the competency requirement of proactive leadership, by benchmarking against a scientifically developed, comprehensive competency dictionary, the Universal Competency Framework (UCF). Finally, we discuss the possibility that leaders' proactivity can be observed and evaluated differently by raters at different positions. Overall, this chapter provides a conceptual analysis of proactive leadership and points to potential research directions subject to empirical investigation.
AB - This chapter discusses proactive leadership by elaborating the meaning of leaders' proactivity, the required competencies of proactive leadership, and the potentially different evaluations of leaders' proactivity by different observers, including leaders themselves, their supervisors, peers, and subordinates. Specifically, based on the goal generation - goal striving process view of proactivity, we define leaders' proactivity as "generating and enacting self-initiated and future-focused leading actions that are persistently sustained to bring changes toward the environment." In line with the process view, we also propose the competency requirement of proactive leadership, by benchmarking against a scientifically developed, comprehensive competency dictionary, the Universal Competency Framework (UCF). Finally, we discuss the possibility that leaders' proactivity can be observed and evaluated differently by raters at different positions. Overall, this chapter provides a conceptual analysis of proactive leadership and points to potential research directions subject to empirical investigation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84863016507&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/S1535-1203(2011)0000006015
DO - 10.1108/S1535-1203(2011)0000006015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84863016507
SN - 1535-1203
VL - 6
SP - 299
EP - 314
JO - Advances in Global Leadership
JF - Advances in Global Leadership
ER -