Psychological Capital: Believing You Can Succeed

Nik Kinley and Shlomo Ben-Hur
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Nik Kinley: YSC Ltd
Shlomo Ben-Hur: IMD

Chapter 6 in Changing Employee Behavior, 2015, pp 95-112 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For the past few decades, psychologists have been studying a cluster of personal qualities and characteristics that have become known as psychological capital (see Figure 6.1). They are the inner resources you need to succeed at almost everything, and certainly professionally. They include believing you can succeed (having selfconfidence and optimism) and having the inner strength to see things through (having willpower and resilience). Each of these qualities is an important part of a person’s inner context for change. And each is capable of significantly affecting how likely someone is to succeed in changing their behavior.

Keywords: Organizational Citizenship Behavior; Cognitive Distortion; Psychological Capital; Free Kick; Rating Scale Question (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137449566_6

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