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Individuals’ behaviours at work are known to be shaped by cold, or cognitive-motivational, processes as well as hot, or affect-motivational, processes. To date, employee proactivity research has mainly focused on the ‘cold’ side. But emotion has been proposed to ‘energize’ employees’ proactivity, especially in interdependent and uncertain work environments.


In this pioneering work, expert scholars offer new thinking on the process by examining how emotion can drive employees’ proactivity in the workplace and how, in turn, that proactivity can shape one’s emotional experiences.

Foreword by: Sharon Parker
Contributions by: Hannes Zacher, Francesco Cangiano, Zhijun Chen, Shunhong Ji, Nai-Wen Chi, Malcolm Patterson, Hector Madrid, Zhenyu Liao, Fenghao Wang, Wu Liu, Chenwei Li, Cynthia Lee, Bingjie Yu, Emily Huang, Kan Ouyang, Laura Venz, Sandra Ohly, Neal Ashkanasy, Daniya Kamran-Morley, David Lebel, Uta Bindl, Wanlu Li