Thriving at work: Impact of psychological capital and supervisor support

Thriving at work is a positive psychological state characterized jointly by learning and vitality. Conventional wisdom and some initial research indicate that such thriving benefits both employees themselves and their organizations. This study specifically tests thriving at work by linking it to a t...

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Published in:Journal of organizational behavior Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 434 - 446
Main Authors: Paterson, Ted A., Luthans, Fred, Jeung, Wonho
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Chichester Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2014
Wiley (Variant)
Wiley Periodicals Inc
Subjects:
Capital
Employees
heedful relating
Hypothesis testing
Job performance
Learning
Occupational psychology
Organizational behavior
Personal development
positive organizational behavior
positive organizational scholarship
psychological capital
Research Article
Self concept
self-development
Selfdevelopment
Statistical methods
Structural equation modeling
Studies
Supervisor-Subordinate interactions
Supervisors
thriving at work
vitality
Wisdom
Work
Work behaviour
ISSN:0894-3796, 1099-1379
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Summary:Thriving at work is a positive psychological state characterized jointly by learning and vitality. Conventional wisdom and some initial research indicate that such thriving benefits both employees themselves and their organizations. This study specifically tests thriving at work by linking it to a theoretically important personal outcome variable (self-development), refining its relationship with agentic work behaviors (task focus and heedful relating), and proposing and testing two new antecedent variables (psychological capital and supervisor support climate). Using structural equation modeling on a sample of 198 dyads (employees and their supervisors), strong support was found for the theory-driven hypothesized relationships. The results contribute to a better understanding of positive organizational scholarship and behavior in general and specifically to the recently emerging positive construct of employees’ thriving at work.
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ISSN:0894-3796
1099-1379
DOI:10.1002/job.1907