Getting credit for proactivity? The effects of gender
- With our research, we contribute to the research on proactive work behavior in two ways. First, we examine a person's gender as a boundary condition for proactive behavior at work. Based on social role theory, we argue that women are less likely to receive credit for showing personal initiative (PI) than men. Second, we examine agency and communion as underlying mechanisms that translate PI into a person's evaluation and drive backlash effects. The hypotheses were tested in two complementary experimental studies (Study 1; N = 114, Study 2: N = 163) using simulated job interviews. Our results show that PI relates to better evaluations (likeability, perceived competence, performance evaluations, expected success and hireability) of the job applicant and that these effects are mediated by agency and communion. Further, we find backlash effects for women high in agency and men high in communion on likeability (Study 2). The implications of these results for organizations and future research are discussed.
Author: | Alina S. Hernandez BarkORCiDGND, Kseniya Seliverstova, Sandra OhlyORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-644167 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12833 |
ISSN: | 1559-1816 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of applied social psychology |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Place of publication: | Oxford [u.a.] |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/09/02 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/09/02 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/01/13 |
Tag: | backlash effect; gender role theory; gender stereotypes; personal initiative; proactive work behavior |
Volume: | 2021 |
Issue: | online version before inclusion in an issue |
Page Number: | 16 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 16 |
Note: | Early View: Online Version before inclusion in an issue |
HeBIS-PPN: | 491336470 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |