Towards Enhancing Happiness at Work with the Lenses of Positive Organizational Behavior: the Roles of Psychological Capital, Social Capital and Organizational Trust

Seçil Taştan (), Burcu Aydin Küçük () and Serin Işiaçik ()
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Seçil Taştan: Assoc. Prof. Dr. (Ph.D.), Marmara University, Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Business Administration (In English), Sub-Department of Organizational Behavior
Burcu Aydin Küçük: Istanbul Aydin University, Department of Management, Istanbul, Turkey
Serin Işiaçik: FMV Isik University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey

Postmodern Openings, 2020, vol. 11, issue 2, 192-225

Abstract: In this study, based on the approach of humanization of the postmodern organizations and depending on the conceptual background, it was suggested that psychological capital and social capital could be the significant antecedents of employee happiness at workplace. Further, it was proposed that organizational trust has a moderating role on the impact of psychological capital on happiness at workplace. Thereby, a cross-sectional research study has been performed in Turkey with the participation of 222 employees from a variety of sectors including sales, marketing, health, banking, finance and education. According to the findings, it was reported that the psychological capital construct (β= ,778; t=18,370, p 0,05), thus hypothesis 3 was not confirmed. Further research direction and the need for research on organizational trust’s moderating role are discussed. The conceptual and practical implications of the study are provided along with the concluding remarks and discussions.

Keywords: Happiness at workplace; Psychological capital; Social capital; Organizational trust; Positive organizational behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.18662/po/11.2/170

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