scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES OF CAREER MANAGEMENT AND THRIVING AT WORK: A MEDIATIONAL ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Aubouin-Bonnaventure ◽  
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Séverine Chevalier ◽  
Evelyne Fouquereau ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Career Management ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
Thriving At Work

scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES OF CAREER MANAGEMENT AND THRIVING AT WORK:THE MEDIATIONAL ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Julia Aubouin-Bonnaventure ◽  
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Séverine Chevalier ◽  
Fadi Joseph Lahiani ◽  
Evelyne Fouquereau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Career Management ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
Thriving At Work

In the 1980s, globalization and business competition led to an instability in work organizations which were no longer able to ensure stable and predictable careers. Responsibility of career managementwas then transferred to workers. Consequently, research on the role of individuals in their career management became popular, while work investigating the role of organizations gradually declined. However, some studies have indicated that it remains beneficial for organizations to invest in practices of career management (PCM)due to theirlink withpositive outcomes for both employees and organizations, suchas workers’well-being. While some studies have shown a link between PCM and indicators of hedonicwell-being, work examining the links with indicators of eudemonic well-being, such as thriving at work, remains scarce.Moreover, previous studies have paid little attention to the psychological mechanisms linking PCM to well-being at work. To fill this gap, our study focused on the synergy of psychological resources (i.e., self-efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience) defined as a core construct, known as PsyCap. The sample consisted of 652 French people workingin nonprofit, private and public organizations. Structural equation modeling and a bootstrapping procedure confirmed indirect effects of PCM on thriving at work through PsyCap. Limitations of the study are discussed.

Organizational support and employee thriving at work: exploring the underlying mechanisms

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Guan ◽  
Stephen Frenkel
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Thriving At Work

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether perceived organizational support for strength use (POSSU) predicts employee thriving at work and the underlying mechanisms that explain this relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis is based on data from an online, time-lagged survey of 209 employees. Latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method was used to test the mediating role of job crafting and meaningfulness and the moderating role of core self-evaluation (CSE) in the organizational support-employee thriving relationship.FindingsPOSSU has a direct, positive relationship with employee thriving at work. Moreover, this relationship is fully mediated by employees' job crafting (as an agentic work behavior) and meaningfulness (as a resource produced at work). In addition, contextual factor of POSSU synergistically interacts with individual characteristic of CSE to foster thriving at work.Research limitations/implicationsBased on a time-lagged survey, causal relationships cannot be drawn from this study. Results point to future research that can incorporate specific types of work climate and organizational practices in a multilevel design to investigate how context at team, unit and organizational levels impact employee thriving.Practical implicationsThe study results highlight the importance of fostering employee thriving at work by implementing organizational practices that create supportive, innovative and meaningful workplaces. Management needs to pay close attention to develop a supportive organizational climate geared to identifying, developing and utilizing employees' strengths.Originality/valueThis study provides theoretical explanations and empirical tests on the mechanisms linking organization support and employee thriving based on the socially embedded model of thriving.

Refining Grit in Academic Performance: The Mediational Role of Psychological Capital

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle W. Luthans ◽  
Brett C. Luthans ◽  
T. Daniel Chaffin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Mediational Role

Mediational role of delinquent peer affiliations in understanding adolescent delinquency

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Guelker ◽  
Lisa A. Ansel ◽  
Christopher T. Barry ◽  
Erin E. Bomar ◽  
Lauren McDougald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Delinquency ◽  
Delinquent Peer ◽  
Peer Affiliations ◽  
Mediational Role
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