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A Finer Grained Approach to Psychological Capital and Work Performance

Madrid, Hector P.; Diaz, Maria T.; Leka, Stavroula; Leiva, Pedro I.; Barros, Eduardo

Authors

Hector P. Madrid

Maria T. Diaz

Stavroula Leka

Pedro I. Leiva

Eduardo Barros



Abstract

© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. 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.

Citation

Madrid, H. P., Diaz, M. T., Leka, S., Leiva, P. I., & Barros, E. (2018). A Finer Grained Approach to Psychological Capital and Work Performance. Journal of Business and Psychology, 33(4), 461-477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-017-9503-z

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 20, 2017
Online Publication Date Jun 16, 2017
Publication Date Aug 1, 2018
Deposit Date Jul 3, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Business and Psychology
Print ISSN 0889-3268
Electronic ISSN 1573-353X
Publisher Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 33
Issue 4
Pages 461-477
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-017-9503-z
Keywords Psychological capital; Work performance; Temporal focus; Job demands-resources; Relative weights
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/866587
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-017-9503-z
Additional Information The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10869-017-9503-z

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