Emotion and Proactivity at Work: Prospects and Dialogues

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Individuals’ behaviours at work are known to be shaped by cold or cognitive-motivational processes as well as hot or affect-motivational processes. To date employee proactivity research has mainly focused on the ‘cold’ side. But emotion has been proposed to ‘energize’ employees’ proactivity especially in interdependent and uncertain work environments.In this pioneering work expert scholars offer new thinking on the process by examining how emotion can drive employees’ proactivity in the workplace and how in turn that proactivity can shape one’s emotional experiences.