A finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance
Purpose Psychological capital is a set of personal resources comprised by hope, efficacy, optimism, and resilience, which previous research has supported as being valuable for general work performance. However, in today’s organizations, a multidimensional approach is required to understanding wor...
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| author | Madrid, Hector P. Diaz, Maria T. Leka, Stavroula Leiva, Pedro I. Barros, Eduardo |
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Psychological capital is a set of personal resources comprised by hope, efficacy, optimism, and resilience, which previous research has supported as being valuable for general work performance. However, in today’s organizations, a multidimensional approach is required to understanding work performance, thus, we aimed to determine whether psychological capital improves proficiency, adaptivity, and proactivity, and also whether hope, efficiency, resilience, and optimism have a differential contribution to the same outcomes. Analyzing the temporal meaning of each psychological capital dimension, this paper theorizes the relative weights of psychological capital dimensions on proficiency, adaptivity, and proactivity, proposing also that higher relative weight dimensions are helpful to cope with job demands and perform well.
Methodology
Two survey studies, the first based on cross-sectional data and the second on two waves of data, were conducted with employees from diverse organizations, who provided measures of their psychological capital, work performance, and job demands. Data was modeled with regression analysis together with relative weights analysis.
Findings
Relative weights for dimensions of psychological capital were supported as having remarkable unique contributions for proficient, adaptive, and proactive behavior, particularly when job demands were high.
Originality/Value
We concluded that organizations facing high job demands should implement actions to enhance psychological capital dimensions; however, those actions should focus on the specific criterion of performance of interest. |
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| spelling | nottingham-439412020-05-04T18:50:34Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43941/ A finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance Madrid, Hector P. Diaz, Maria T. Leka, Stavroula Leiva, Pedro I. Barros, Eduardo Purpose Psychological capital is a set of personal resources comprised by hope, efficacy, optimism, and resilience, which previous research has supported as being valuable for general work performance. However, in today’s organizations, a multidimensional approach is required to understanding work performance, thus, we aimed to determine whether psychological capital improves proficiency, adaptivity, and proactivity, and also whether hope, efficiency, resilience, and optimism have a differential contribution to the same outcomes. Analyzing the temporal meaning of each psychological capital dimension, this paper theorizes the relative weights of psychological capital dimensions on proficiency, adaptivity, and proactivity, proposing also that higher relative weight dimensions are helpful to cope with job demands and perform well. Methodology Two survey studies, the first based on cross-sectional data and the second on two waves of data, were conducted with employees from diverse organizations, who provided measures of their psychological capital, work performance, and job demands. Data was modeled with regression analysis together with relative weights analysis. Findings Relative weights for dimensions of psychological capital were supported as having remarkable unique contributions for proficient, adaptive, and proactive behavior, particularly when job demands were high. Originality/Value We concluded that organizations facing high job demands should implement actions to enhance psychological capital dimensions; however, those actions should focus on the specific criterion of performance of interest. Springer 2017-06-16 Article PeerReviewed Madrid, Hector P., Diaz, Maria T., Leka, Stavroula, Leiva, Pedro I. and Barros, Eduardo (2017) A finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance. Journal of Business and Psychology . ISSN 1573-353X Psychological capital; Work performance; Temporal focus; Job demands-resources; Relative weights https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-017-9503-z doi:10.1007/s10869-017-9503-z doi:10.1007/s10869-017-9503-z |
| spellingShingle | Psychological capital; Work performance; Temporal focus; Job demands-resources; Relative weights Madrid, Hector P. Diaz, Maria T. Leka, Stavroula Leiva, Pedro I. Barros, Eduardo A finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance |
| title | A finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance |
| title_full | A finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance |
| title_fullStr | A finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | A finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance |
| title_short | A finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance |
| title_sort | finer grained approach to psychological capital and work performance |
| topic | Psychological capital; Work performance; Temporal focus; Job demands-resources; Relative weights |
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