Psychological and Emotional Capital
Farshid Aslani; Marziyeh Malekiha; Atefeh Heshmat Zadeh
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of organizational climate on informal learning of teachers in Fereydunshahr city through the mediation of psychological capital. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and is one of the descriptive-survey researches. The statistical ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of organizational climate on informal learning of teachers in Fereydunshahr city through the mediation of psychological capital. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and is one of the descriptive-survey researches. The statistical population of the present study consists of 686 teachers in Fereydunshahr city. For example, using Krejcie and Morgan table, the sample number was estimated to be 244 people. The research instrument consists of three standard questionnaires of informal learning of Hong et al. (2020) which has 18 questions, the atmosphere bar questionnaire of Johnson et al. (2007) which has 21 questions and the psychological capital questionnaire of Lutans et al. (2007) which has 24 questions. In the present study, two methods of face and content validity have been used and Cronbach's alpha of 0.88 has been used to evaluate the reliability. The collected data were analyzed based on structural equation path analysis with Smsrt PLS software and Sobel test. The results showed that the organizational climate had a positive and significant effect on informal learning in the workplace with the mediating role of psychological capital.
Seyyed Hassan Aletaha; Mohsen Akbari
Volume 7, Issue 1 , March 2021, , Pages 35-71
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The abandonment of service from the organization's employees can be highly competitive, especially when experienced employees and high - ranking employees have their skills and capabilities.it is important to identify the effective factors that can reduce the willingness to leave the job. The present ...
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The abandonment of service from the organization's employees can be highly competitive, especially when experienced employees and high - ranking employees have their skills and capabilities.it is important to identify the effective factors that can reduce the willingness to leave the job. The present study is a questionnaire in terms of the purpose of the applied research in terms of the purpose of descriptive research, in terms of the nature of ali and in terms of data collection methods. The statistical population of this study includes employees of University of guilan. In order to test the hypotheses, structural equation modeling method was used using Smart PLS software. According to data analysis, the research findings showed that the climate of service delivery and psychological capital has a positive and significant effect on job aspiration. Also, job satisfaction on job satisfaction has a positive and meaningful effect on the willingness to leave services. Job satisfaction also affects the desire to leave the service negatively and significantly. The mediation of job satisfaction and job satisfaction was also confirmed. Organizations can significantly reduce the willingness to leave service by strengthening factors affecting job desire, including service climate and psychological capital.
Ghazal Ghashghaee; Farideh Hoseinsabet; Abdollah Motamedi
Volume 7, Issue 1 , March 2021, , Pages 72-89
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Psychological capital includes hope , resilience, optimism and self-efficacy as part of positive psychology, which has been considered in recent years and relies on the strengths of individuals to help improve their individual and organizational performance.On the other hand, perfectionism, which is ...
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Psychological capital includes hope , resilience, optimism and self-efficacy as part of positive psychology, which has been considered in recent years and relies on the strengths of individuals to help improve their individual and organizational performance.On the other hand, perfectionism, which is the setting of precise criteria for achieving goals, according to its positive and negative dimensions, can be beneficial or destructive in a person's performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological capital and positive and negative perfectionism. The statistical societyof this research includes all female students of Allameh Tabatabai University.The sample of this research is 200 people who have been selected by convenience sampling. The research tools are Lutans Psychological Capital Questionnaire and Frost Perfectionism Questionnaire.Information obtained from questionnaires with correlationhas been analyzed by Pearson correlation. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between research variables(psychological capital and perfectionism)and there is a positive relationship between positive perfectionism and psychological capital and a negative relationship between negative perfectionism and psychological capital so that with increasing positive perfectionism, psychological capital increases and with increasing negative perfectionism psychological capital decreases and viceversa.
Ghazal Ghashghaee; farideh hoseinsabet; Abdollah Motamedi
Volume 6, Issue 2 , September 2020, , Pages 97-109
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Psychological capital include optimism, resilience, and self-efficacy w hich has been considered in recent years and it helps to improve people's performance in different areas. On the other hand, anxiety can lead to a decrease or even destruction of a person's performance, so we examine the relationship ...
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Psychological capital include optimism, resilience, and self-efficacy w hich has been considered in recent years and it helps to improve people's performance in different areas. On the other hand, anxiety can lead to a decrease or even destruction of a person's performance, so we examine the relationship between these two concepts.The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological capital and anxiety in female students of Allameh Tabatabai University.The statistical population of this study includes all female students of Allameh Tabatabai University.The sample of this research includes 200 people who have been selected and studied by the available method.The tools of this research are Lutans (2007) Psychological Capital Questionnaire and Cattell Anxiety Questionnaire (1958). The data obtained from the questionnaire were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient.Findings showed that there is a significant relationship between research variables so that there is a negative and significant relationship between psychological capital and students' anxiety(r=-0.155&sig=0.028) .That is, with the increase of students 'psychological capital, their anxiety decreases and, conversely, with the decrease of students' psychological capital, their anxiety increases.
maryam rezaei; Behrang Esmaeilishad
Volume 4, Issue 2 , September 2018, , Pages 9-32
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The aim of this study was to examining the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship of work overload and job control. Study is practical and the type of research is descriptive and correlational. The population was all 155 employees of the Maskan Bank of Bojnourd and 110 were the sample ...
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The aim of this study was to examining the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship of work overload and job control. Study is practical and the type of research is descriptive and correlational. The population was all 155 employees of the Maskan Bank of Bojnourd and 110 were the sample according to table-Morgan and method of sampling is stratified random. The data was collected by three questionnaires: work overload Goudarzi (2007), Job Control of Daniels and Harris (2005) and Psychological Capital of Luthans (2007). A Cronbach's reliability through the alphabet, respectively, 0.98, 0.88, 0.92, and validity of questionnaires was the content and were approved by Professors and experts. To analyze the findings in the descriptive statistics of frequency distribution tables, graphs, mean and standard deviation. And inferential statistics to analyze the data using structural equation modeling software is used LISREL version 8. Statistical test results showed that there is a significant relationship between role overload and job control. There is a significant relationship between role overload and psychological capital.
hossein khanifar; ali asghar rashid; sahel sadeghi matin; soheil nejat
Volume 4, Issue 1 , March 2018, , Pages 9-32
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In recent years, the concept of positive psychology has attracted the attention of psychologists, so that the movement also spread to the field of management and organizational behavior. Since today's organizations place great emphasis on knowledge resources rather than financial resources, this study ...
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In recent years, the concept of positive psychology has attracted the attention of psychologists, so that the movement also spread to the field of management and organizational behavior. Since today's organizations place great emphasis on knowledge resources rather than financial resources, this study exploring the impact of psychological capital on intellectual capital through social capital. Hence, this study examines the impact of Psychological capital on Intellectual capital through Social capital. Statistical population in this study was all employees of the Department of Education in Tehran in 1395. 214 people were selected according to the latest statistics of the total of 480 persons was estimated based on Morgan table and using simple random sampling. The study was a descriptive survey and questionnaires were used to collect data. Data has been analyzed by structural equation modeling. Results showed that psychological capital has a positive and significant impact on intellectual capital and social capital. Also, social capital has a positive and significant impact on intellectual capital. Finally, the indirect impact of Psychological Capital on Intellectual Capital through Social Capital was confirmed.
nour mohammad yaghoubi; samaneh mohammadpour; amin reza kamalian
Volume 2, Issue 2 , September 2016, , Pages 9-42
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Organizational Identification is one of the most challenging organizational issues. That's why a lot of attention has been paid to it in the literature on organizational behavior and management research. The purpose of the present study is to study the impact of the most recent leadership approach called ...
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Organizational Identification is one of the most challenging organizational issues. That's why a lot of attention has been paid to it in the literature on organizational behavior and management research. The purpose of the present study is to study the impact of the most recent leadership approach called authentic leadership on the Personal and Organizational Identification, Given the Mediatory Role of Psychological Capital. Research methodology is descriptive-correlational, and in terms of purpose, it is an applied study. Statistical population includes the employees of National Oil Products Distribution Company of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, out of which 165 individuals were selected through random sampling. Data collection tool includes the standard questionnaires of Avolio et al authentic leadership (2007), questionnaire of Luthans Psychological capital (2007), questionnaire of Cheek & Briggs Personal Identification (2013), questionnaire of Mael & Ashforth Organizational Identification (1992), whose content validity was confirmed by experts’ comments and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha. In this research, correlation test, regression test and structural equations model were used, and data were analyzed using LISREL and SPSS Software. Results indicated that authentic leadership directly and indirectly affects Personal and Organizational Identification through psychological capital. Also, the psychological capital, as a mediator variable, is relatively effective in the relationship between authentic leadership and Psychological capital and Organizational Identification.
Mohammad Ranjbar; Hassan Zarei Matin
Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2016, , Pages 9-33
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Wealth creation, technology development and creation of generative employment are three important reasons for studying the issue of entrepreneurship. Based on the experts' perspective in the competitive and changing global environment, entrepreneurship is an effective method for economic and social development. ...
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Wealth creation, technology development and creation of generative employment are three important reasons for studying the issue of entrepreneurship. Based on the experts' perspective in the competitive and changing global environment, entrepreneurship is an effective method for economic and social development. Creation, development and promotion of entrepreneurial behavior depends on variety of factors such as psychological characteristic and personality, as well as environmental and structural factors. This paper aims to examine the role of psychological capital in Intrapreneurship through Fuzzy logic among faculty members of Farabi College of University of Tehran. To assess the role of psychological capital in Intrapreneurship, the provided model is accompanied by identifying the four components of psychological self-efficacy, hope, optimism and resiliency (flexibility). So that the analysis has been carried out by a fuzzy logic approach. The method of doing this research is descriptive survey and measuring tools are “Luthans et al Psychological Capital Questionnaires”(2007) and interview. The results suggested that between psychological capital and Intrapreneurship dimensions is a positive and significant relationship. At the end, it has been concluded that managers and officials can also improve and develop the process of Intrapreneurship through paying attention to the psychological aspect and their development through education
Mehdi Yazdan Shenas; Amir Hossein Mazidabadi Farahani
Volume 1, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 31-59
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This study tries to investigate the effects of positive organizational behavior in reducing employees` negativity. In this regard, different relationships between positive psychological capital and transformational leadership with organizational cynicism and employees` intention to quit have been analyzed ...
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This study tries to investigate the effects of positive organizational behavior in reducing employees` negativity. In this regard, different relationships between positive psychological capital and transformational leadership with organizational cynicism and employees` intention to quit have been analyzed within the conceptual framework. An important idea is that the psychological empowerment as a mediating factor can affect these relationships which should be carefully considered. This research is a descriptive one which its statistical population consists of employees of Social Security Organization in Qom province and required data were collected through questionnaire. Results show the positive role of psychological capital and transformational leadership in reducing organizational cynicism and intention to quit. Also, analyses supported the mediating role of psychological capital in relations among psychological capital, organizational cynicism, and intention to quit, but this role was not confirmed in relations among transformational leadership, organizational cynicism, and intention to quit.
Valiollah Naghi Pourfar; Behzad Mohammadian
Volume 1, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 109-133
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This study aimed to investigate the role of psychological capital in crisis management, according to the tradition of Imam Hossein (AS). The type of research is qualitative that performed by content analysis technique. Data were collected from documents and historical texts. For this purpose our research ...
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This study aimed to investigate the role of psychological capital in crisis management, according to the tradition of Imam Hossein (AS). The type of research is qualitative that performed by content analysis technique. Data were collected from documents and historical texts. For this purpose our research was performed based on the Mosueh Al-Hossein (AS) book. Analysis was carried out according to the process model of crisis management, with four stages as anticipating a crisis, crisis management plan, organizing and implementing crisis management plan. Finally, it was concluded that, in the pre-crisis stage, Imam (AS) due to issues in the community had come to the awareness that the crisis threatens community and the need for corrective action is necessary in order to achieve the same result as the planning and controlling arrangements for the crisis and its final implementation freed the society from danger. Psychological aspects in all parts of the capital management is deduced and it has some examples such as patience, determination, faith in God and being thankful.