Psychological capital luthans book

This seminal book offers not only an answer regarding how to gain competitive advantage through people, but also a brand new, untapped human resourcepsychological capital, or simply psycap. Luthans founded and with colleagues conducted research on positive psychological capital, or psycap. Psychological capital and beyond by luthans, fred ebook. This book draws from a foundation of positive psychology and recently emerging positive organizational behavior pob. In total, psychological capital provides theory, research, measurements, and methods of. This seminal book offers not only an answer regarding how to gain competitive advantage through. This seminal book offers not only an answer regarding how to gain competitive advantage through people, but also a brand new, untapped human resource. We define psychological capital, or what we refer to throughout this book simply as. Why its important to build psychological capital in the. Generated from both the positive psychology movement and the authors pioneering work on positive organizational behavior, psycap goes beyond traditionally recognized human and social capital. Psychological capital and beyond and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Luthans gave words and scientific context to what i have known for decades.

Using these criteria, the positive psychological constructs that have been. Mcgrawhill authors represent the leading experts in their. Psychological capital and beyond by fred luthans, carolyn. This book draws from a foundation of positive psychology and recently emerging positive. Psychological capital psycap was defined by fred luthans and his associates as having four elements. Leader psychological capital and employee psychological capital were measured in the psychological capital questionnaire of luthans et al. This secondorder, core construct of psycap is composed of the criteria meeting theoryresearch, valid measurement, statelikeopentodevelopment, desired impact firstorder psychological resources of hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism or the hero within. Luthans, 2007 study further suggests that psycap is the higher order and. Developing the human competitive edge by luthans, fred, youssef.

The concept of psychological capital psycap was originally designed for organizations. Psychological capital and beyond by fred luthans, carolyn m. Psychological capital and beyond harpsc edition by fred luthans author, carolyn m. Its purpose is to introduce the untapped human resource capacity of psychological capital, or simply psycap. Pioneer fred luthans suggested that growth in organizations needs to focus on psychological rather than educational development. Drawing upon my experience in the field of psychology, in general, and positive psychology, in particular, i would like to emphasize the overarching power of psychological capital luthans. Developing the human competitive edge this book draws from a foundation of positive psychology and. Explores the roles of the four positive psychology constructs of efficacy, hope, optimism, and resiliency.