TY - JOUR
T1 - The affect-proactive performance link and its reciprocal process
T2 - A hedonic contingency theory perspective
AU - Peng, Kelly Z.
AU - Huang, Guohua Emily
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/3
Y1 - 2024/3
N2 - Employees’ proactive performance is future-oriented and contributes to organizational effectiveness and sustainability. The proactivity literature shows that positive affect and negative affect may have differential effects to motivate various proactive behaviors at work. However, direct empirical evidence of the impact of affect on proactive performance is limited. It is also important to investigate whether the motivational effect of positive and negative affect on proactive performance can be sustained over time. Responding to these knowledge gaps, we apply the Hedonic Contingency Theory (HCT), and hypothesize a positive reciprocal relationship between positive affect and proactive performance over time, while such effect does not exist for negative affect. Results from two independent studies – a cross-sectional and a longitudinal one – provide support for hypotheses drawn from HCT. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
AB - Employees’ proactive performance is future-oriented and contributes to organizational effectiveness and sustainability. The proactivity literature shows that positive affect and negative affect may have differential effects to motivate various proactive behaviors at work. However, direct empirical evidence of the impact of affect on proactive performance is limited. It is also important to investigate whether the motivational effect of positive and negative affect on proactive performance can be sustained over time. Responding to these knowledge gaps, we apply the Hedonic Contingency Theory (HCT), and hypothesize a positive reciprocal relationship between positive affect and proactive performance over time, while such effect does not exist for negative affect. Results from two independent studies – a cross-sectional and a longitudinal one – provide support for hypotheses drawn from HCT. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
KW - Hedonic contingency theory
KW - Negative affect
KW - Positive affect
KW - Proactive performance
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-022-09847-4
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85136220738
U2 - 10.1007/s10490-022-09816-x
DO - 10.1007/s10490-022-09816-x
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0217-4561
VL - 41
SP - 171
EP - 191
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
IS - 1
ER -