What is positive organizational behaviour and how can it contribute to employee health and well-being?

Positive organizational behaviour (POB)is "the study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement in today's workplace." The psychological capacities are known as psychological capital (PsyCap)and they refer to an individual's positive psychological state of development that is characterized by self-efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience.Self-efficacy refers to one's confidence to take on and put in the necessary effort to succeed at challenging tasks; optimism involves making internal attributions about positive events in the present and future and external attributions about negative events; hope refers to persevering toward one's goals, and when necessary making changes and using multiple pathways to achieve one's goals; and resilience refers to one's ability to bounce back or rebound from adversity and setbacks to attain success.PsyCap is positively related to employee psychological well-being as well as more positive job attitudes, behaviours, and job performance, and negatively related to undesirable attitudes and behaviours such as employee anxiety, stress, and turnover intentions.POB can contribute to employee health and well-being by developing employees' PsyCap.This can be done with PsyCap interventions (PCI)that focus on enhancing each of the components of PsyCap and have been found to be effective for developing employees' PsyCap.Thus, POB is an effective approach for organizations to improve employee health and well-being by developing employees' PsyCap.