Anticipatory Competence as a Predictor of Organizational Staff’ Proactivity

The article discusses the significance of anticipatory competence in developing proactive dispositions and proactive work behaviour of organizational staff. Based on surveying respondents-employees from organizations in St. Petersburg and Donetsk People’s Republic (N=145) and subsequent correlation and regression analyses, it is revealed that anticipation as an ability for speech-thought forecasting, along with positive basic self-esteem, are predictors of developmental proactive work behaviour manifested through changes in job structural characteristics and increased complexity of tasks. Anticipatory competence, together with basic self-esteem, can be considered personal resources for managers and specialists ensuring the development of staff’s proactivity within organizations.