@article{PingelFayUrbach2019,
  author    = {Pingel, Ruta and Fay, Doris and Urbach, Tina},
  title     = {A resources perspective on when and how proactive work behaviour leads to employee withdrawal},
  series = {Journal of occupational and organizational psychology},
  volume    = {92},
  journal   = {Journal of occupational and organizational psychology},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0963-1798},
  doi       = {10.1111/joop.12254},
  pages     = {410 -- 435},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Previous organizational behaviour research has mainly focused on the benefits of proactivity while disregarding its possible drawbacks. The present study examines the ways in which proactive behaviour may foster counterproductive behaviour through increased emotional and cognitive strain. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we propose that proactive behaviour is a resource-consuming activity that causes irritability and work-related rumination, which, in turn, leads to instrumentally driven employee withdrawal. Further, we hypothesize that external motivation towards proactivity amplifies its strain-eliciting effects. We conducted a longitudinal three-wave questionnaire study (N = 231) and tested hypotheses using an autoregressive, time-lagged model with latent variables. Results showed that when external motivation for proactivity was high, proactivity led to increased irritability and rumination; irritability was, in turn, related to higher levels of withdrawal. The moderated mediation analysis revealed that when external motivation towards proactive behaviour was high, proactive behaviour had an indirect effect on withdrawal behaviour via irritability. The direct effect of proactivity on work-related rumination was in the expected direction, but failed to reach conventional levels of significance (beta = .09, p = .08). Our results indicate that proactivity is not without costs, most clearly if motivated by external reasons.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WeigeltSyrekSchmittetal.2019,
  author    = {Weigelt, Oliver and Syrek, Christine J. and Schmitt, Antje and Urbach, Tina},
  title     = {Finding peace of mind when there still is so much left undone},
  series = {Journal of occupational health psychology},
  volume    = {24},
  journal   = {Journal of occupational health psychology},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {American Psychological Association},
  address   = {Washington, DC},
  issn      = {1076-8998},
  doi       = {10.1037/ocp0000117},
  pages     = {373 -- 386},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Unfinished work tasks have been identified as a significant job-related stressor in recent occupational stress research. Extending this research, we examine how and when not finishing one's tasks by the end of the work week affects work-related rumination at the weekend. Drawing on control theory, we examined competence need satisfaction as a mediating mechanism that links unfinished tasks at the end of the work week to work-related rumination at the weekend. Furthermore, we scrutinized whether proactive work behavior within the work week may neutralize the detrimental effects of unfinished tasks on competence need satisfaction and rumination. Using diary methodology, we collected weekly observations from 58 employees at the beginning and at the end of the work week over a period of 12 consecutive weeks, yielding 377 matched observations. Multilevel modeling analyses provided evidence for the assumed indirect effect at the intraindividual level. Higher levels of unfinished tasks were associated with lower levels of competence need satisfaction during the weekend. Competence need satisfaction, in turn, was negatively related to work-related rumination. Proactive work behavior attenuated the detrimental effects of unfinished tasks on competence need satisfaction and rumination at the weekend. These results imply that proactive work behavior facilitates switching off mentally during the weekend as it may restore competence need satisfaction in the face of unfinished tasks.},
  language  = {en}
}