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  • Workplace involution is prevalent in Chinese organizations, yet its impact on employee cognition and behavior remains understudied.
  • Existing research lacks understanding of how workplace involution affects employee proactivity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of workplace involution on proactive career behavior.
  • To examine the moderating role of construal level (CLT) in this relationship.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: Survey design with 284 employees measuring workplace involution, proactive career behavior, and construal levels.
  • Study 2: Scenario-based experiment manipulating workplace involution and construal level.

Main Results:

  • Workplace involution significantly negatively impacts proactive career behavior.
  • Construal level theory (CLT) positively moderates this relationship, with high construal levels buffering negative effects.

Conclusions:

  • Workplace involution inhibits positive career behaviors.
  • Cognitive factors, specifically construal level, act as boundary conditions influencing the involution-proactivity link.
  • Findings offer theoretical insights and practical strategies for fostering career proactivity in competitive work settings.