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Organizations are recognizing that contextual performance, which improves the social and psychological base of the organization, is as important for organizational effectiveness as employees’ task performance. However, many activities contributing to contextual performance are not easily captured in the standard job description. Also, the standard management processes that reduce employee activity to the mandated job tasks fail to do justice to the innate human desire for autonomy and self-initiated effort. This course aims to educate students about the theoretical bases of proactive behaviour in organizations; the different ways in which proactive behaviour are classified; the organizational benefits of employee proactive behaviour and the methods to encourage proactive behaviour among employees. Proactive behaviour falls within the broad rubric of positive organizational behaviour and is increasingly becoming important in the knowledge economy where employee quality, motivation, and proactivity, rather than financial or physical assets, is becoming the prime driver of success.

2. Student Learning Outcomes
· Be able to understand the importance of proactive work behaviours for organizational effectiveness
· Be able to understand the role of organizational processes in facilitating proactive work behaviour
· Be able to identify the differences between different forms of proactive behaviour
· Be able to analyze the type of proactive behavior required in their organizations

The course is mostly based on research articles. The reading materials for each session are mentioned in the session plan.

4. Tentative Session Plan

Session No.	Topics / Activities	Reading/Case List, etc.
1	Introduction to Proactive Personality	The proactive component of organizational behavior: A measure and correlatesa
2	Promoting Proactivity and Innovation in Workplace	Promoting a Proactive and Innovative Workforce for the New Workplaceb
3	OCB and Contextual Performance	Implications of OCB and Contextual Performance for Human Resource Managementa
4	OCB – Dimensions, Antecedents and Consequences	Exploring the Nomological Network of Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Review of Dimensions, Antecedents and Consequencesa
5	Role Efficacy and Role Making	Udai Pareek’s book- Making Organisational Roles Effective
6 & 7	Personal Initiative	Personal initiative: An active performance concept for work in the 21st centurya
8	Introduction to Job Crafting	Crafting a job: Revisioning employees as active crafters of their worka
9	Facilitation of Job Crafting	Job Crafting Exercise; Turn the Job you have into the job you wanta
10	Integrated Framework	Proactive Behavior in Organizations

The articles marked with the superscript a can be downloaded from EBSCO. The articles marked b are available for free download. The web link for each of them is mentioned below:

Promoting a Proactive and Innovative Workforce for the New Workplace: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/2949/2/2949.pdf

Proactive Behavior in Organizations: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215915558_Proactive_Behavior_in_Organizations

The dynamics of proactivity at work: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191308508000038

5. Evaluation

The different components of evaluation are:

Group Presentation	30%
Quiz Quizzes (Online)	30%
End-term	40%

The details of the group assignment will be discussed in the first or second sessions of the course.

6. Academic Integrity

Students are expected to adhere to the norms and rules of academic conduct. This includes refraining from using unfair means in examination and plagiarism in projects and citing documents properly. Any incidence of academic misconduct will be dealt with as per institute rules. Projects and assignments will be checked for plagiarism and those exceeding the 20% limit will not be awarded any marks. Use of laptops and mobiles is not allowed in the classroom. Faculty will be glad to provide help through online medium or personal meetings..

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