At AOM, one of the events involving our staff was a Professional Development Workshop on "The Future of Proactivity in Organizations", hosted by Uta Bindl and Sharon Parker. The PDW was intended to promote our forthcoming book about proactivity. We had a fantastic line up of panelists and presenters including:
Issue Selling – Sue Ashford
Feedback Seeking – Katleen de Stobbeleir
Personal Initiative – Michael Frese
Job Crafting –Amy Wrzesniewski
Career Proactivity – Sabine Sonnentag
Work Design and Proactivity – Sharon Parker
Leading for Proactivity – Deanne den Hartog
Consequences of Employee Voice – Linn Van Dyne
The Dark Side of Proactivity – Mark Bolino
Teams and Proactivity – Brad Kirkman
Proactive Personality – Mike Crant
Individual Differences – Wen-Dong Li
Pursuing Proactive Goals – Tom Bateman
Identity and Proactivity – Karoline Strauss
Well-being and Proactivity – Uta Bindl
Many participants came along to the PDW, and we had an excellent discussion about future research ideas. Several people commented that the workshop was a "highlight" of the conference for them.
