Back to Search
Start Over
Relationships between psychological capital, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment in the Saudi oil and petrochemical industries.
- Source :
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment; May-Jun2017, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p251-269, 19p, 1 Diagram, 9 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2017
-
Abstract
- During the past decade, Saudi Arabia experienced a significant social, economic, and organizational change. The rapid economic growth created a need for seasoned management professionals and necessitated the development of human capital. Psychological capital, a newly developed construct by academics and practitioners, is defined as the extent to which an individual operates in a positive psychological state, and this state is characterized by high self-efficacy, optimism, hope, and resiliency. By measuring the positive psychological constructs, an organization can learn about employees’ positive psychological states and how training and support can promote positive psychological states. Improving the positive psychological capital can lead to better organizational commitment, favorable organizational citizenship behaviors, lower employee absenteeism, and higher job satisfaction. This quantitative study examined the relationship among psychological capital, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment through a sample of managers in the Saudi Arabian oil and petrochemical industries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- ANALYSIS of variance
COMMITMENT (Psychology)
STATISTICAL correlation
HOPE
INCOME
INDUSTRIES
JOB satisfaction
MATHEMATICAL models
RESEARCH methodology
OPTIMISM
ORGANIZATIONAL change
QUESTIONNAIRES
SELF-efficacy
SOCIAL skills
SURVEYS
SOCIAL capital
THEORY
MULTIPLE regression analysis
QUANTITATIVE research
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10911359
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121980785
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2017.1279098