More evidence on the value of Chinese workers' psychological capital: A potentially unlimited competitive resource?
- 7 May 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in The International Journal of Human Resource Management
- Vol. 19 (5), 818-827
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09585190801991194
Abstract
As China continues its unprecedented economic growth and emergence as a world power, new solutions must be forthcoming to meet the accompanying challenges. We propose a positive approach to Chinese HRM that recognizes, develops and manages the psychological capital (PsyCap) of workers. After providing a brief overview of hope, efficacy, optimism, resilience and overall PsyCap in today's Chinese context, the results of a follow-up study provide further evidence that the PsyCap of Chinese workers is related to their performance. The implications that this evidence-based value of Chinese workers' psychological capital has for China now and into the future concludes this study.Keywords
This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
- Psychological capital development: toward a micro‐interventionJournal of Organizational Behavior, 2006
- Entrepreneurial self-efficacy in Central Asian transition economies: quantitative and qualitative analysesJournal of International Business Studies, 2005
- Occupational stress in (inter)action: the interplay between job demands and job resourcesJournal of Organizational Behavior, 2005
- Distinguishing Hope and Optimism: Two Sides of a Coin, or Two Separate Coins?Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2004
- Ordinary magic: Resilience processes in development.American Psychologist, 2001
- The hope construct, will, and ways: Their relations with self-efficacy, optimism, and general well-beingJournal of Clinical Psychology, 1999
- A Structural Equation Model of the Effects of Negative Affectivity, Leader-Member Exchange, and Perceived Job Mobility on In-role and Extra-role Performance: A Chinese CaseOrganizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1999
- Resilience and development: Contributions from the study of children who overcome adversityDevelopment and Psychopathology, 1990
- Explanatory style as a predictor of productivity and quitting among life insurance sales agents.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986
- Back-Translation for Cross-Cultural ResearchJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1970