Antecedents of psychological capital: The role of work design

Abstract

Aim/purpose – Though psychological capital has become a hot topic in the recent years, scholars have given little attention to its antecedents. This study used the job characteristics model (Hackman & Oldham, 1975) as a framework to examine the relationship between the five job characteristics and the four components of psychological capital. Moreover, task performance is examined as an outcome of psychological capital.

Keywords

• psychological capital
• job characteristics
• task performance
• m1
• m10
• m12
• m20