A Studying on Proactive and Reactive Counterproductive Work Behavior

As a bad behavior, CWB has attract many researches attention. However, we know little about whether CWB is employees´ compulsive action or intentional behavior. This paper put forwards some propositions about proactive and reactive CWB. Proactive CWB is private, intentional behavior, and reactive CWB is overt, implusive behavior. Proactive CWB relate to instrumental motivation more, and reactive CWB due to expressive motivation more. Triggers and internal control variables are reactive CWB´ main antecedents, and opportunity and propensity variables are proactive CWB main antecedents. Proactive CWB and reactive CWB both have positive and negative consequences, but the consequences also are different. Future research can test these propositions in empirical study.