Study of the role of psychological capital and its components on employee productivity

The purpose of this study is to identify the role of psychological capital and its components on the productivity of employees of sports and youth departments of West Azerbaijan province. 

Materials & Methods:

The present research method is descriptive and correlational and 140 employees were randomly selected from all employees of the province's sports and youth departments. In order to collect data, two standard questionnaires of Lutans et al.'s psychological capital (2007) and Hershey and Gold Smith's human resource productivity (1980) were used. The reability of the Psychological Capital Questionnaire was 0.77 and the Human Resource Productivity Questionnaire was 0.88, which was estimated through Cronbach's alpha. Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression, were used to analyze the data.

The results showed that there was significant relationship between productivity and psychological capital (r = 0.615 and p = 0.001). There is significant relationship between all components of psychological capital and employee productivity. The hope component (r = 0.411 and p = 0.001) has the highest correlation coefficient with productivity among the total components of psychological capital. The results of multiple regression also show that the components of psychological capital have the explanatory power of about 37% of employee productivity variance.

Given the significant relationship between self-efficacy, hopefulness, employee optimism and productivity, it is recommended that organizations pay attention to employees 'self-efficacy mentality using counselors and psychologists at the organization level and strengthen employees' hope for the future.