Sustainability of Positive Psychological Status in the Workplace: The Influence of Organizational Psychological Ownership and Psychological Capital on Police Officers’ Behavior

Yu-Shan Chen,Wei-Yuan Lo,Chun-Ming Lien,Fuh-Shyong Tsay

doi:10.3390/su13052689

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Mar 2, 2021
Citations: 5	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: National Taipei University

Abstract

Drawing on the theory of conservation of resources (COR), the purpose of this study is to examine the mechanisms through which employee organizational citizenship behavior and job performance are affected by positive psychological status at work. Structural equation modeling was applied to analyze the data collected from 543 police officers in Northern Taiwan. The empirical results reveal that organizational psychological ownership positively associated with psychological capital, and psychological capital positively associated with both job performance and organizational citizenship behavior. Additionally, this study demonstrates that the relationship between organizational psychological ownership and job performance and organizational citizenship behavior are both fully mediated by psychological capital. Organizational psychological ownership and psychological capital are both positive psychological strengths to assist employees facing stressful work circumstances. The importance of examining the relationship between the components of organizational psychological ownership, psychological capital, job performance, and organizational citizenship behavior is pointed out due to the importance of organizations promoting the development of psychological resources to promote sustainable positive behavior and results in the workplace.

Highlights

Both in public and private organizational contexts, organizations are facing critical economic and managerial difficulties to survive in the market [1]
We suggested that organizational psypsychological capital will be the critical factors to organizational sustainability and retaining chological talents [97].ownership could help employees build positive psychological resources so that In they bettercontext, handleDutton positive behaviors to accomplish their goals
Based on the conservation of resources theory [17], the empirical results of this study reveal an incremental contribution by verifying effects of organizational psychological ownership on psychological capital, job performance, and organizational citizenship behavior

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Introduction

Both in public and private organizational contexts, organizations are facing critical economic and managerial difficulties to survive in the market [1]. Human resources are the first and most important capital of the organization, and they are considered the key resource of an organization, cannot be imitated by competitors, and enable the generation of unique competitive advantage for organizational sustainability [3]. According to this argument, employees are assets of a skillful and committed workforce and are driven to create and maintain to achieve organizational goals. These negative experiences of employees may trigger them to disconnect or detach from their organizations and organizational members [6]

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