Increasing Proactive Coping in Organizational Newcomers: Improving Job Adaptation or Rocking the Boat?

Proactivity has positive effects for the adaptation to the workplace. This study introduces an intervention that aims to enhance one important resource of newcomer adaptation, proactive coping, by a resource accumulation and controllability intervention for organizational newcomers. The effectiveness of the intervention (a structured booklet) was assessed in a sample of organizational newcomers ( N = 172) within a longitudinal evaluation design...