Farmers’ Proactive Behaviour

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Antonio Tulone ◽  
Antonino Galati ◽  
Marcella Giacomarra ◽  
Oriana La Monica ◽  
Maria Crescimanno
Keyword(s):  
Proactive Behaviour

Participative work design in lean production

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Lantz ◽  
Niklas Hansen ◽  
Conny Antoni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
Lean Production ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Proactive Behaviour ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore job design mechanisms that enhance team proactivity within a lean production system where autonomy is uttermost restricted. We propose and test a model where the team learning process of building shared meaning of work mediates the relationship between team participative decision-making, inter team relations and team proactive behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – The results are based on questionnaires to 417 employees within manufacturing industry (response rate 86 per cent) and managers’ ratings of team proactivity. The research model was tested by mediation analysis on aggregated data (56 teams). Findings – Team learning mediates the relationship between participative decision-making and inter team collaboration on team proactive behaviour. Input from stakeholders in the work flow and partaking in decisions about work, rather than autonomy in carrying out the work, enhance the teams’ proactivity through learning processes. Research limitations/implications – An investigation of the effects of different leadership styles and management policy on proactivity through team-learning processes might shed light on how leadership promotes proactivity, as results support the effects of team participative decision-making – reflecting management policy – on proactivity. Practical implications – Lean production stresses continuous improvements for enhancing efficiency, and such processes rely on individuals and teams that are proactive. Participation in forming the standardization of work is linked to managerial style, which can be changed and developed also within a lean concept. Based on our experiences of implementing the results in the production plant, we discuss what it takes to create and manage participative processes and close collaboration between teams on the shop floor, and other stakeholders such as production support, based on a shared understanding of the work and work processes. Social implications – Learning at the workplace is essential for long-term employability, and for job satisfaction and health. The lean concept is widely spread to both public bodies and enterprises, and it has been shown that it can be linked to increased stress and an increase in workload. Finding the potential for learning within lean production is essential for balancing the need of efficient production and employees’ health and well-being at work. Originality/value – Very few studies have investigated the paradox between lean and teamwork, yet many lean-inspired productions systems have teamwork as a pillar for enhancing effectiveness. A clear distinction between autonomy and participation contributes to the understanding of the links between job design, learning processes and team proactivity.

Principal Proactivity

2016 ◽  
pp. 29-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuncer Fidan ◽  
Ali Balcı
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Proactive Behavior ◽  
Strategic Learning ◽  
Feedback Seeking ◽  
Environmental Complexity ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Organizational Functioning ◽  
Proactive Behaviour ◽  
Different Levels

Increasing environmental complexity and ambiguity require organizations to rely on their members' proactive behaviors to deal with potential chaotic occurences surrounding the organizational functioning. Individuals respond these occurences by displaying various proactive behavior forms to build predictability islands in ocean of uncertainty. In this context, principal proactivity is one of key determinants of effectiveness of schools functioning in complex and anarchic environments. In this study, numerous forms of proactive behaviour were categorized under six general dimensions as innovativeness, issue selling, social networking, strategic scanning, strategic learning and feedback seeking. A causal comparative design was used to determine levels of general forms of proactive behavior performed by school principals. The data were collected from school principals working at different levels of public and private schools in Istanbul Province during 2014-2015 year. According to the results of study, the most frequent form of proactive behaviour displayed by school principals was strategic learning.

Proactive behaviour in unemployment: findings and implications

1984 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fryer ◽  
Roy Payne
Keyword(s):  
Proactive Behaviour

Employees’ perceptions of barriers to participation in training and development in small engineering businesses

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 561-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pattanee Susomrith ◽  
Alan Coetzer
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Employee Participation ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industry Sector ◽  
Proactive Behaviour

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate barriers to employee participation in voluntary formal training and development opportunities from the perspective of employees in small engineering businesses. Design/methodology/approach – An exploratory qualitative methodology involving data collection via site visits and in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 employees in five small engineering businesses was used. Interviews explored the role of developmental proactivity and employees’ perceptions of conditions in the immediate work environment and industry sector that represent barriers to their participation in formal training and development. Interview transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings – Three key findings are as follows. First, proactive behaviour regarding access to external training and development is muted in small business settings because of strong resource allocation norms. Second, factors in the internal work environment rather than the industry sector constitute the major barriers to training and development. Third, owner-managers and employees appear to have significantly differing perspectives of barriers to training and development. Research limitations/implications – The findings suggest avenues for future research. These include examining how workplace norms influence employee behaviour with regard to accessing formal training and development and investigating the learning strategies that employees use to compensate for a lack of access to training and development. Originality/value – Research into relatively low levels of employee participation in formal training and development in small businesses is deficient because it predominantly involves surveys of owner-managers’ opinions. This study is novel because it seeks to generate new insights not previously articulated by employees. The study yielded four propositions that have practical and research implications.

scholarly journals The effects of environmental context and personal resources on depressive symptomatology in older age: a test of the Lawton model

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. P. M. KNIPSCHEER ◽  
M. I. BROESE VAN GROENOU ◽  
G. J. F. LEENE ◽  
A. T. F. BEEKMAN ◽  
D. J. H. DEEG
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Functional Status ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Proactive Behaviour ◽  
Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam ◽  
Aging Study

This study examines the environmental and psychosocial determinants of depression in older adults. Based on Lawton's environmental docility thesis, the question is posed: is the strong association between functional limitations and depressive symptomatology affected when environmental conditions, objective and subjective efficacy, and docile or proactive behaviour are taken into account. Data were used from LASA (the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam), a national survey of the population between 55 and 85 years of age, stratified by age and sex. Hierarchical regression analyses were performed on the data of 2,981 respondents. Empirical support was found for the extended Lawton model, including both environmental, efficacy and behavioural factors. In particular, living in a more urbanised area, not being able to perform heavy household tasks, having a low self-efficacy, not feeling safe, receiving help from others and having few social contacts within the neighbourhood, increase depressive symptoms in general but, in particular, when combined with lower functional status. It is concluded that both being able and feeling able to influence one's environment increases proactive behaviour and decreases depressive symptomatology in older adults with low functional status.

The Impact of High Quality Relationships on Proactive Behaviour

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 13488
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bridget Farrell ◽  
Patrick Christopher Flood ◽  
Gerard P. Hodgkinson
Keyword(s):  
High Quality ◽  
Proactive Behaviour ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Quality Relationships
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