Poster Presentation 6th World Congress on Positive Psychology 2019

Psychological Capital As A Catalyst For Effective Organizational Change Implementation (#802)

Heather Sager 1 , Jennifer Thompson 2
  1. Press Ganey, Chicago
  2. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL, United States

This study had three main components: employee engagement, Psychological Capital (PsyCap), and organizational change. The goal of the study was to better understand what organizational and individual factors may contribute to an employee’s perception of an organizational change implementation success. The study sought to address the known difficulty that organizational change poses to individuals and companies. The researchers operated under the theory of Positive Psychology, and the framework that individual factors evaluated by PsyCap are state-like and can be developed. Existing research has found development of PsyCap to be possible. The results of the study are exploratory and preliminary in nature, and support further research into individual factors having a relationship to organizational change success perception, and that the use the STCI has the potential to be an adequate evaluation of one’s perception of their organization’s change implementation success, and organizational factors believed to influence change implementation success.  In addition, PsyCap was related to employee engagement.  Therefore, individual factors of PsyCap were related to engagement, while organizational factors were related to organizational change efforts being successful.