Emerging Positive Organizational Behavior

By Fred Luthans, Carolyn M. Youssef. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Can Positive Employees Help Positive Organizational Change? Impact of Psychological Capital and Emotions on Relevant Attitudes and Behaviors (2008, methodology): “…been offered: “the study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement” (Luthans, 2002b, p. 59; also see Luthans & Youssef, 2007; Nelson & Cooper, 2007; Wright, 2003).”
Antecedents of academic performance of university students: academic engagement and psychological capital resources (2019, background): “PsyCap is a derivative from positive organizational behavior (Luthans & Youssef, 2007; Nelson & Cooper, 2007; Wright, 2003) and positive organizational scholarship (Cameron & Spreitzer, 2012), both of which are recognized movements in the organizational literature that apply positive psychology…”
Experimental Analysis of a Web-Based Training Intervention to Develop Positive Psychological Capital (2008, background): “…in such an integrated, interactive, and broadening way with its factors of hope, efficacy, optimism, and resiliency in the motivated and motivating pursuit of success and desirable organizational outcomes (see Luthans, Avolio et al., 2007; Luthans & Youssef, 2007; Luthans, Youssef, & Avolio, 2007).”
Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress: An Integrative Theoretical Approach to Work Stress (2011, background): “However, Luthans and Youssef (2007, p.332) noted that helplessness is the “conceptual opposite of an optimistic explanatory style.” Using the CATS formulations, hopelessness (i.e., negative outcome expectancy regardless of coping response) could be considered conceptually opposite of optimism, but h”
Prozac leadership and the limits of positive thinking (2012, background): “Its popularity has also influenced the emergence of ‘positive psychology’ (Seligman, 1998, 2002) and ‘positive organizational behaviour’ (Bernstein, 2003; Luthans, 2003; Luthans and Yousef, 2007; Wright, 2003).”
Thriving at work: Toward its measurement, construct validation, and theoretical refinement (2012, neutral): “Scholars have explicitly called for development and validation of measures of positive constructs that are “specific and valid for the workplace” (Luthans & Youssef, 2007, p. 340).”
Positive organizational psychology, behavior, and scholarship: A review of the emerging literature and evidence base (2010, methodology): “Among the various areas of inquiry, research and scholarship about positive organizations have received considerable attention from both researchers and practitioners.”
Relational job crafting: Exploring the role of employee motives with a weekly diary study (2018, background): “In experiencing positive feelings like enthusiasm and eagerness, engaged employees build a range of physical, social and intellectual resources that help them perform better at work (Bakker and Xanthopoulou, 2009; Luthans and Youssef, 2007).”
Psychological capital: A positive resource for combating employee stress and turnover (2009, background): “…Snyder & Lopez, 2002), the emerging positive organizational behavior approach (introduced by Luthans, 2002a, 2002b; for a recent review article see Luthans & Youssef, 2007, and also see Nelson & Cooper, 2007; Wright, 2003) provides such a positive perspective and serves as the foundation for this…”
Engaged in Engagement: We Are Delighted We Did It (2008, background): “Thus, work on organizational energy (Bruch, Cole, Vogel, &Menges, in press) and positive organizational behavior (Luthans & Youssef, 2007), as well as our own work on engagement (Schneider et al., 2007), is encouraging.”
Work engagement and financial returns: A diary study on the role of job and personal resources (2009, background): “Unlike positive personality traits that are fixed, these personal resources are by definition malleable ( Luthans & Youssef, 2007 ), and thus are considered appropriate for the present study.”
Positive psychological capital and emotional labor in Korea: the job demands-resources approach (2016, background): “Luthans and colleagues introduced the term ‘psychological capital’ to refer to four elements which comprise individuals’ positive psychological resources or capacities: efficacy, optimism, hope and resilience (Luthans, 2002; Luthans & Youssef, 2007; Youssef & Luthans, 2007).”
A diary study on the happy worker: How job resources relate to positive emotions and personal resources (2012, result): “…in the current study (since we did not measure participants’ enduring personal resources after the completion of the diary study), it is in line with Luthans and Youssef (2007), who proposed that repeated increments of positive selfbeliefs can build positive dispositions that generalize over time…”