Positive attitude's contribution to improved employee performance and organizational productivity

Abstract

For a long time, psychologists have focused on how to increase employee productivity. Positive psychologists began to fill literature gap by addressing the impact of positive traits on employee performance and organizational productivity, as well as how to improve the same by identifying these traits and developing organizational policies based on them, with the advent of positive psychology. Unlike traditional psychology, Positive psychology concentrates on the positive personality features of employees rather than the individual’s negative psychological aspects. This study examines the effects of three positive qualities i.e. optimism, well-being and personal strength on employee productivity and a result organizational productivity. The study focuses on these three positive characteristics, identification and formulation of strategy based on them, with the goal of improving employee performance and thus productivity. The study suggests a ‘method’ and ‘framework’ to reflect the connections between positive psychology, employee performance and organizational productivity. The framework was used to generate hypotheses and a questionnaire was created. A questionnaire was given to employees in a certain company. The framework was used to generate hypotheses and a questionnaire was created to collect data to validate the validity of the postulated links. The questionnaire was given to employees in a certain company. Each theory was put to test with the findings. The findings revealed some fascinating findings, demonstrating that implementing positive psychology concepts and individual positive traits such as optimism, well-being and personal strength at work improves employee performance and thus organizational productivity as evidenced by the acceptance of all hypotheses after data analysis.