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Unit 5 - Positive Organizational Behavior
Unit 5 - Positive Organizational Behavior
2. Valid measures: The construct of POB must have reliable and valid
measures.
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Hope:
A sense of energy to persevere towards your goals through proactive
planning.
Synder and colleagues have precisely defined hope as- a positive
motivational state that is based on an interactively derived sense of
successful (a) agency (b) pathways.
Agency: goal-directed energy, willpower
Pathways: Planning to meet goals, Waypower
This definition of hope includes two important components- agency
and pathways.
Agency reflects someone’s determination that goals can be achieved.
Pathways describe the individual’s beliefs that successful plans can be
generated to reach goals.
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Efficacy
Efficacy refers to capacity or power to produce a desired effect.
Self-efficacy is a concept developed by Albert Bandura within the
framework of Social Cognitive Theory.
He has defined self-efficacy as one's belief in one's ability to succeed in
specific situations or accomplish a task. One's sense of self-efficacy can
play a major role in how one approaches goals, tasks, and challenges.
Level of efficacy determines whether an individual is going to initialize a
behavior, how much effort he or she will contribute to the accomplishment
of the task, and how long he or she will persist in the effort.
Individuals who have a high sense of efficacy make a sufficient effort which
produces successful results, while individuals with a low sense of efficacy
are more likely to stop trying and thus fail in executing a task.
Impact of Self-Efficacy
A confident individual
Is more likely to make a choice to really get into the task and
welcome the challenge
Will give more effort and will be motivated to successfully accomplish
the task
Will persist for a longer time when obstacles are encountered or even
when there is initial failure.
Enters into potential stressful situations with confidence and are able
to resist stress reactions.
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Mastery Experience
Vicarious Experience
Self-Efficacy
Social Persuasions
Emotional States
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4. Emotional States: The state you’re in will influence how you judge
your self-efficacy. Depression, for example, can reduce confidence in
our capabilities.
A person who expects to fail at a task, or finds the task too challenging
will experience a set of emotional cues: racing heart, blushing,
sweating, headaches, etc. If these physiological cues are persistent,
they create a sense of low efficacy in individuals.
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