Mahdi Dehghani Soltani; Mahdi Joneidi Jafari
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Most of the frontline jobs put a lot of pressure on employees, because employees are in constant demand of managers and customers. Scholars believe psychological capable employees can overcome this challenge. This paper examines the mediating effect of psychological capital on work engagement, well-being ...
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Most of the frontline jobs put a lot of pressure on employees, because employees are in constant demand of managers and customers. Scholars believe psychological capable employees can overcome this challenge. This paper examines the mediating effect of psychological capital on work engagement, well-being and control at work. This study was conducted using a descriptive-survey research method with a sample of 828 employees of Mellat Bank, using a questionnaire and through structural equation method. The results of the research show that: (1) there is a significant relationship between work engagement and psychological capital. (2) Psychological capital plays the role of mediator between work engagement and well-being and control at work. (3) The results indicate that banks for providing customer orientation services, should put a program for recruiting and employing high psychologically staff, since they are vigorous and absorbed to their work and will promote well-being and control their work.
Seyyed Mehdi Alvani; Reza Vaezi; Rooholla Honarmand
Volume 24, Issue 79 , March 2016, , Pages 1-26
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The present study has been done to determine the relationship between positive organizational behavior and organizational silence. The statistical population consisted of staff offices of Sepah Bank (1905 people); Using Cochran''''''''s formula, 320 people were selected stratified randomly as samples. ...
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The present study has been done to determine the relationship between positive organizational behavior and organizational silence. The statistical population consisted of staff offices of Sepah Bank (1905 people); Using Cochran''''''''s formula, 320 people were selected stratified randomly as samples. As for the research objectives, the present study can be classified as an “applied research”, while as for data gathering, it is descriptive as a cross-sectional survey. Data reliability and validity were assessed using Cronbach''''''''s alpha coefficient and consulting managers of Sepah Bank as experts, and the result was confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis technique. The research hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling technique based on the results of the LISREL software. Hypothesis test results indicate that the positive organizational behavior has a significant negative relationship with organizational silence. Also results show that all dimensions of positive organizational behavior has a significant negative relationship with acquiescence silence, but about the quiscence silenence, only negative relationship with self-efficacy was confirmed and the relationship of hope, resilience and optimism was not significant with quiescence silence.
MahmudReaz Esmaeili; Ali Shariat Nejad
Volume 24, Issue 77 , July 2015, , Pages 77-97
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The aim of this article was surveying the role of transformational leadership in intellectual capital and psychological Capital with emphasis on transformational management. The research objective was applied and the research type was analytical survey. The statistical population was made ...
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The aim of this article was surveying the role of transformational leadership in intellectual capital and psychological Capital with emphasis on transformational management. The research objective was applied and the research type was analytical survey. The statistical population was made up of over 220 faculty and 450 staff members of Lorestan University. The sample size was 281 cases which were obtained using Cochran's formula and random sampling - stratification.. The validity of questionnaire was proved using content validity method and their reliability using Cronbach's alpha. In this article to test hypothesis and conceptual model structural equation approach and Amos 18 software were used. The result show the transformational leadership has relationship with intellectual capital and psychological Capital and transformational management. Also the results show the transformational management has relationship with intellectual capital and psychological Capital.
Davood Hosseinpour; Hossein Alizadeh
Volume 21, Issue 69 , January 2013, , Pages 95-119
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Psychological Capital on teleworking adoption. The methodology of this study for purpose is implication and descriptive-survey type. The statistical society of this research was Ministry of Mine, Industry and Business. The data was gathered via standard ...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Psychological Capital on teleworking adoption. The methodology of this study for purpose is implication and descriptive-survey type. The statistical society of this research was Ministry of Mine, Industry and Business. The data was gathered via standard questionnaires were distributed among teleworkers (n=84) and non-teleworkers (n=266) randomly selected from the society, validity and reliability of those questionnaire was measured by Cronbach's alpha coefficient and confirmatory factor analysis. Data analysis was performed by SPSS and LISREL software packages utilizing statistical tests such as: K-S test and Structural Equations Modeling.The findings showed Psychological Capital effects on teleworking adoption. We also showed that only two dimensions of Psychological Capital (hope and optimism) affected on teleworking adoption
