DEVELOPMENT OF PROACTIVE WORK BEHAVIOR: SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

Employees' proactive work behavior can influence the organization's future development. This study examines how research on proactive work behavior has evolved through a thorough systematic literature review. This review employed PRISMA, or preferred reporting items, for systematic reviews and meta-analyses with the Watase Uake tools. The systematic literature review was conducted in three stages: planning, conducting, and reporting. The review results showed that the development of proactive work behavior in 2018–2024 indexed by Scopus was highest in 2023, reaching fifty articles. Research on proactive work behavior has grown rapidly over the past decade, with underlying theories such as attribution theory, work design theory, social exchange theory, broaden-and-build theory, job demand resources theory, socialization resource theory, social cognitive theory, self-determination theory, conservation of resources theory, relational identification theory, theory of organizational socialization, self-construal theory, trait activation theory, and self-regulatory theory. Proactive work behavior has a great chance of being published in the world's leading journals.