Abstract
The concept of positive organizational behavior (POB) was introduced several years ago as a way to create competitive advantage. Therefore, organizations pay more attention to Positive Organizational Behavior due to the changing and competitive nature of organizations. And it becomes a major focus area for theory building, research, and application in psychology and now organizational behavior. This paper introduces the emergent concept of POB and its role in organizational work-related performance, and determines its relationship with job satisfaction, OCB, and employee’s engagement. Statistical population of this survey includes the employees of a public organization in Iran, that a sample (N=108) of them were tested of the POB different states of hope, optimism, and resiliency and overall psychological capital. The findings generally support that POB has strong relationship with job satisfaction, OCB, and employee’s engagement, and these relationships will be stronger when POB is high. This study adds to our understanding of positive organizational behavior’s key-role in organization and work-related performances.
Highlights
The workplace is increasingly becoming a place of success and survival which forces organizations to compete with others in order to gain a competitive advantage
Current researchers have turned their attention to Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap) as a source for competitive advantage (Hodges, 2010) and positive organizational behavior becomes important for all organization
Youssef and Luthans reported that employees‘ optimism related to their performance evaluations, their job satisfaction, and work happiness (Avey et al, 2007)
Summary
The workplace is increasingly becoming a place of success and survival which forces organizations to compete with others in order to gain a competitive advantage. Current researchers have turned their attention to Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap) as a source for competitive advantage (Hodges, 2010) and positive organizational behavior becomes important for all organization. He state POB is an individual‘s positive psychological state of development that is characterized by: (1) having confidence (self-efficacy) to take on and put in the necessary effort to succeed at challenging tasks; (2) making a positive reference (optimism) about succeeding and in the future; (3) persevering toward goals and, when necessary, redirecting paths to goals (hope) in order to succeed; and (4) when beset by problems and adversity, sustaining and bouncing back, and even beyond (resilience) to attain success (Luthans et al, 2007b). Since POB has become important for organizations and researchers have applied positive psychological behavior in work place, they have become aware of its role. We conclude the study with implications and directions for future research
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