Positive Psychological Capital as a Predictor of Satisfaction With the Fly-In Fly-Out Model

Abstract

The flexibility of markets and international agreements have lured a growing number of companies to expand their business beyond frontiers in search for new markets and a bigger business network. Specifically, expatriates became keystones to implant and promote the so desired expansion into international markets, Particularly, Fly-in fly-out (FIFO) flexpatriates. Although FIFO work practices are widely used, little is known about how to promote these professionals’ perceived job satisfaction (JS) across the course of their work cycles. That is why the goal of our research is to test the positive psychological capital (PsyCap) applicability to Portuguese FIFO flexpatriates. In the midst of the positive psychology theories, Luthans et al. (2007b) underline that workers are the psychological capital of any organization. Therefore, the development of the PsyCap becomes crucial and also contributes to the promotion of JS, nowadays a construct intertwined with well-being. As such, we developed and applied a HERO–(hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism)–micro-intervention in order to assess whether it moderated the relationship between a FIFO flexpatriates PsyCap and their JS. The research took place over three distinct moments, both PsyCap and JS were measured before and after the HERO micro-intervention, and again 3 months later. The data collected shows that a positive correlation exists between FIFO flexpatriates PsyCap and JS. Moreover, our results pointed out that the micro-intervention enhanced FIFO flexpatriates PsyCap, and also showed that this increase lasted over (at least) 3 months.

Influence of psychological capital on core competency for new nurses

“…The significant and positive connections discovered between PsyCap and core competencies, including self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism, are in line with the findings of Luthans et al [32] These results highlight the potential impact of PsyCap on performance improvement. PsyCap serves as a positive psychological state that stimulates positive behaviors among individuals to fulfill their job tasks [32].…”

“…The significant and positive connections discovered between PsyCap and core competencies, including self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism, are in line with the findings of Luthans et al [32] These results highlight the potential impact of PsyCap on performance improvement. PsyCap serves as a positive psychological state that stimulates positive behaviors among individuals to fulfill their job tasks [32]. A higher level of PsyCap can enable new nurses to maintain a positive and optimistic work attitude, think critically in their work, and facilitate the development of clinical thinking skills, thus promoting their professional growth [33].…”

Influences of Boundary-Spanning Leadership on Job Performance: A Moderated Mediating Role of Job Crafting and Positive Psychological Capital

“…PsyCap is a concept which began with research in the field of positive psychology and is actively accepted in mental health research. While traditional psychology is overly focused on the negative aspects of humans, positive psychology aims to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of human behaviors by giving attention to strength [17]. It embraces the need for a more balanced approach that considers both the positive and the negative based on the concept that individual positive experience and attitudes are likely to affect not only personal life but also work life.…”

“…It refers to the complex positive psychological state of an individual needed to perform well on a given task and achieve successful results [16]. By developing individual strengths, PsyCap has a significant impact on motivational processes and job performance [17,18]. We examined whether PsyCap is a conditional factor influencing the dynamics among BSL, job crafting, and job performance.…”

Capital psicológico, expectativas y compromiso organizacional en el contexto del teletrabajo de los trabajadores mexicanos

“…la felicidad, la productividad, la creatividad y la capacidad de trabajar, amar y vivir en un apego a las normas sociales. En distintas investigaciones, el CapPsic ha mostrado ser un factor de protección para enfrentar situaciones adversas en el ámbito laboral (Bayona y Guevara, 2017;Bhatnagar and Aggarwal, 2020;Mesurado y Laudadío, 2019;Soares et al, 2021;Sun et al, 2011). También se ha encontrado que el CapPsic tiene una correlación positiva con el rendimiento y el compromiso laboral (Clausen et al, 2019;Luthans and Youssef-Morgan, 2017;Simons and Buitedanch, 2013), así que es una variable relevante en el tema.…”