Valores pessoais como antecedentes do comportamento proativo nas organizações

• Autor(a) principal: Kamia, Meiry
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/23510
• topic: valores pessoais; comportamento proativo; iniciativa pessoal; personal values; proactive behavior; personal initiative; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::ADMINISTRACAO DE EMPRESAS

Due to the increase of complexity and competitiveness in the global economy, researches on pro-activity have gained strength in the last fifteen years. From this perspective, the proactive behavior has acted as one of the most critical determinant for the organizational success. The proactive behavior is defined as a set of non-formal behaviors that allow the workers to spontaneously search for changes in the work environment, looking forward to solutions and aiming to long term goals that provide benefits to the company. Literature points to the fact that personal values are strongly connected to the behavior. However, up to the moment, little has been investigated regarding the relation between personal values as the antecedent of the proactive behavior in the organizational environment. This study aimed to investigate the relation between personal values and its impact on the proactive behavior in organizations. It is characterized as a descriptive and transversal research. Some instruments were used as measurement tools, such as the Personal Values Questionnaire (PVQ) already validated and the scale of Proactive Behavior in Organizations (ECPO), which has been developed, used and validated in this study. The ECPO presented good levels of reliability, being nominated to be used in researches and organizational diagnosis. Those two scales were answered by a sample of 369 workers. After eliminating extreme cases, the sample was constituted of 325 employees. The linear regression analysis showed that values predict the proactive behavior, and the most significant motivational type is Stimulation. However, the impact of the values over the proactive behavior was low, justifying only 6.7% of the behavior. This low prediction may indicate the existence of variable mediators that affect the impact of the values on the behavior. The implications and limitations of this research are argued in this work.