background psychological capital with components of hope, self efficacy, optimism, and resiliency has been recently proposed to bring positive psychology to the workplace. objectives we investigated psychological capital states of employees of the tehran university of medical sciences (tums) headquarter offices in tehran, iran. materials and methods a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical...

swift development in economic aspects and the call for more concentration on the ethics in new era is taking considerations in the world. the aim of this study was the investigation of the impact of the islamic work ethics and its aspects in every point of human being characters, especially in employees’ hope, resilience, optimism and efficacy, as the dimensions of positive psychological capita...

Organizational behavior researchers have recently distinguished positive psychology from prior IS project team members’ emotion frequency. We expanded this research by examining the psychological capital antecedents effect and second order variable on prior IS project team members’ creativity ability within a small to medium information software developer company. We found that the concept of p...

Organizational behavior researchers have recently distinguished positive psychology from prior IS project team members’ emotion frequency. We expanded this research by examining the psychological capital antecedents effect and second order variable on prior IS project team members’ creativity ability within a small to medium information software developer company. We found that the concept of p...

The now recognized core construct of psychological capital, or simply PsyCap, draws from positive psychology in general and positive organizational behavior (POB) in particular. The first-order positive psychological resources that make up PsyCap include hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism, or the HERO within. These four best meet the inclusion criteria of being theoryand research-based, p...

Recently acknowledged central constructs of psychological capital (consisting of the positive psychological resources; resilience, optimism, hope, and efficacy) has been demonstrated to be related to various employee attitude, behavioral, and performance outcomes. In this study, positive central constructs of psychological capital have been conceptually and empirically demonstrated to be relate...