TY - JOUR AU - Vogt, Catharina AU - van Gils, Suzanne AU - Van Quaquebeke, Niels AU - Grover, Steven AU - Eckloff, Tilman T1 - Proactivity at work: The roles of respectful leadership and leader group prototypicality JF - Journal of Personnel Psychology SP - 114 EP - 123 IS - 3 VL - 20 PY - 2021 AB - We propose that two aspects of leadership, perceived respectful leadership and the degree of leaders’ prototypicality, positively affect employee proactivity. A multisource and multilevel field study of 234 employees supervised by 62 leaders shows that respectful leadership relates positively to employee proactivity in terms of personal initiative and that leader group prototypicality diminishes this effect. Moreover, perceived respectful leadership and prototypicality substitute for one another in their relation to follower proactivity. This study contributes to previous research that shows leader–follower relationships enhance proactivity by showing the impact of perceived respectful leadership and leader group prototypicality. DO - 10.1027/1866-5888/a000275 M4 - Citavi ER -