Abstract
We expand Karasek’s (1979) Job Demand-Control model to examine the moderating effects of proactive personality and role breadth self-efficacy (RBSE). These two different approaches to employee proactivity have the potential explain when control moderates the impact of job demand on such outcomes as employee strain and innovation. Data from 112 Australian employees showed higher demands were associated with more strain and suggestions, while higher control was associated with more suggestions and their implementation. RBSE interacted with work design such that control reduced the impact of demands on strain for those higher in RBSE; however, among such people low control and low demands were particularly detrimental for idea implementation. Similar effects for proactive personality indicate the
influential role of proactivity on the effects of work design.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 131 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Australian Journal of Psychology |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | Suppl. |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
| Event | Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference (7th : 2007) & Asia Pacific Congress on Workplace and Organisational Psychology (1st : 2007) - Adelaide Duration: 25 Sept 2007 → 29 Sept 2007 |