The Effect of Self-Leadership Training on Detached Concern and the Proactivity of Human Service Professionals
| Title: | The Effect of Self-Leadership Training on Detached Concern and the Proactivity of Human Service Professionals |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Botke, Jolanda A. (ORCID |
| Source: | International Journal of Training and Development. Jun 2023 27(2):281-300. |
| Availability: | Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 20 |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Leadership Training, Human Services, Professional Personnel, Altruism, Interaction, Behavior Change, Leadership Effectiveness, Emotional Response, Self Efficacy, Program Effectiveness, Intervention |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ijtd.12300 |
| ISSN: | 1360-3736 1468-2419 |
| Abstract: | This paper describes a field experiment with a self-leadership training aimed at helping human service professionals to improve their detached concern and proactivity. Whereas detached concern refers to a state in which human service professionals blend compassion with emotional distance in their interaction with clients, proactivity refers to self-starting and change-oriented behaviour to enhance personal or organizational effectiveness. Based on self-leadership theory, we hypothesized that self-leadership training can enhance detached concern and proactivity. Moreover, based on behavioural plasticity theory, we hypothesized that training participants who are low in occupational self-efficacy are more susceptible to the external influence of self-leadership training, than individuals with higher levels of occupational self-efficacy. We conducted a field experiment with a sample of 223 human service professionals who were either assigned to a training group (n = 94), or a wait-list control group (n = 129). In a 3-month follow-up study, we found that self-leadership training had a positive effect on detached concern and that the intervention was especially effective for participants with low to medium initial levels of pretraining occupational self-efficacy. However, the intervention did not affect participants' level of proactivity. This study adds to the literature on workplace learning by demonstrating the potential of a self-leadership training for the transfer maintenance of newly developed soft skills (i.e., detached concern and proactive behaviour) to the workplace and by pinpointing occupational self-efficacy as an individual predisposition that influences training success. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2023 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1376350 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| ISSN: | 1360-3736 1468-2419 |
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| DOI: | 10.1111/ijtd.12300 |
| Published in: | International Journal of Training and Development |
| Language: | English |