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Linking Authentic Leadership To Positive Employee Health, Behavioral Engagement, And Job Performance, Yan Liu
Linking Authentic Leadership To Positive Employee Health, Behavioral Engagement, And Job Performance, Yan Liu
Doctoral Dissertations
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the emerging field of positive organizational behavior. The field of Positive Organizational Behavior (POB) has its roots in the concept of "positive psychology" (Bakker & Schaufeli, 2008) but is more narrowly defined as "the study and application of positively oriented human resources strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement in today's workplace" (Luthans, 2002, p.698). More and more researchers have begun to emphasize what is right with people rather than focusing on what is wrong with people.
Given this opportunity, this dissertation explicitly …