Positive Psychology and Organizational Effectiveness

Abstract

With the advent of positive psychology movement in almost every sphere of human life including organizations advocating for the investment of employees' focused efforts and positive energies towards organizational goals, there has been a tremendous encouragement to human creative capabilities and optimism. Keeping this in view, the present study focuses its attention on investigating the function of employee engagement, a positive individual-level behavioral construct in occupational psychology towards increased organizational effectiveness. Data was collected from 152 managers in Indian IT organizations and the results of regression analysis depicted a positive association between the elite study variables as expected. The study posits employee engagement as a substantial element to the sustenance of organizational performance and growth, and further, establishes the need to develop conditions via positive organizational–climate for higher engagement level of employees.