Purpose – This paper sets out to examine proactive personality in relation to job demands, job resources and engagement. Design/methodology/approach – The current study employed a two-wave complete panel study among 794 Dutch government employees. Based upon the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, previous studies, job crafting theories, and Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, hypotheses on...

Proactivity is the ability to take initiative by exhibiting goal-directed behavior. Agents with proactivity can respond to dynamic environment in a timely way. Hence the ability to anticipate the information needs of teammates and assist them proactively is highly desirable. This research is directed toward helping agents produce effective communication through observations. We show how agents ...

My research is on proactiveness in robots. By the term proactive I understand a robot that is able to generate and select among its own goals and pursue activities towards their achievement. Consider the following example: Anna, who owns a personal robot, has instructions from her physician to take pills daily at meal times. Not taking the pills can result in Anna being unwell. Throughout the d...