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1、JournalofAppliedPsychologyWheninDoubt,SeizetheDay?SecurityValues,ProsocialValues,andProactivityUnderAmbiguityAdamM.GrantandNancyP.RothbardOnlineFirstPublication,April29,2013.doi:10.1037/a0032873CITATIONGrant,A.M.,&Rothbard,N.P.(2013,April29).WheninDoubt,SeizetheDay?SecurityValues,ProsocialValues,
2、andProactivityUnderAmbiguity.JournalofAppliedPsychology.Advanceonlinepublication.doi:10.1037/a0032873JournalofAppliedPsychology©2013AmericanPsychologicalAssociation2013,Vol.98,No.4,0000021-9010/13/$12.00DOI:10.1037/a0032873RESEARCHREPORTWheninDoubt,SeizetheDay?SecurityValues,ProsocialValues,andPr
3、oactivityUnderAmbiguityAdamM.GrantandNancyP.RothbardUniversityofPennsylvaniaResearchershavesuggestedthatbothambiguityandvaluesplayimportantrolesinshapingemployees’proactivebehaviors,buthavenottheoreticallyorempiricallyintegratedthesefactors.Drawingontheoriesofsituationalstrengthandvalues,wepropos
4、ethatambiguityconstitutesaweaksituationthatstrengthenstherelationshipbetweenthecontentofemployees’valuesandtheirproactivity.Afieldstudyof204employeesandtheirdirectsupervisorsinawatertreatmentplantprovidedsupportforthiscontingencyperspective.Ambiguitymoderatedtherelationshipbetweenemployees’securi
5、tyandproso-cialvaluesandsupervisorratingsofproactivity.Underhighambiguity,securityvaluespredictedlowerproactivity,whereasprosocialvaluespredictedhigherproactivity.Underlowambiguity,valueswerenotassociatedwithproactivity.Wereplicatedthesefindingsinalaboratoryexperimentwith232participantsinwhichwem
6、easuredproactivityobjectivelyasinitiativetakentocorrecterrors:Participantswithstrongsecurityvalueswerelessproactive,andparticipantswithstrongprosocialvaluesweremoreproactive,butonlywhenperformanceexpectationswereambiguous.Wediscusstheoreticalimplicationsforresearchonproactivity,values,andambiguit
7、yanduncertainty.Keywords:values,proactivebehavior,ambiguityAscompetitivepressuresriseandthepaceofchangeacceler-ambiguity(Grant&Ashford,2008;Griffinetal.,2007).Ambi-ates,organizationsneedemployeestoscantheenvironmentfor