Vol. 5 No. 2 (2017): BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT STUDIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Articles

PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL AND EMOTIONAL LABOR AS DETERMINANTS OF JOB SATISFACTION: A RESEARCH ON BANK EMPLOYEES

Tuğrul OĞUZHAN
Kara Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı
Memduh BEĞENİRBAŞ
Kara Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı
Mustafa Kemal TOPCU
Fokus Yaşam Akademisi

Published 2017-09-16

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OĞUZHAN, T., BEĞENİRBAŞ, M., & TOPCU, M. K. (2017). PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL AND EMOTIONAL LABOR AS DETERMINANTS OF JOB SATISFACTION: A RESEARCH ON BANK EMPLOYEES. Business & Management Studies: An International Journal, 5(2), 330–344. https://doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v5i2.116

Abstract

Employees’ contribution to organizations to be succesfull and to reach objectives are considered great. As a natural result, organizations has exponentially started to invest in human capital. By adapting positive psychology to organizational field, it is believed that the happier employees are the more porductive they work. In fact, psychology of employees at workplace has a great significance on organizational attitudes and behaviors towards the job itself, organization, co-workers, and customers. In particular, the effects on job satisfaction,  which is a sum of emotions at workplace, is continously attached more attraction by researchers. Nonetheless, relations among variables are studied at organizations having a normal life cycle. On the other side, extreme cases like moving, downsizing, restructuring are rarely studied. To this end, this study aims at determining the effects of psychological capital and emotional labor on job satisfaction of employees working in a moving bank headquarters. Findings indicate that there is no significant effect of psychological capital and emotional labor on job satifaction due to organizational climate whilst psychological capital has a positive effect on emotional labor.

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