Engineering Positive organizational behavior and managing the psychological capital for learning effectiveness

Abstract

Social Intelligence has been a living concept for quite some time as an offshoot of Emotional Intelligence and has been used in engineering. Its usefulness in individual context has found several applications in developing individual effectiveness. Several researchers have expanded the concept to organizational development, and organizational effectiveness using modern concepts of Positive Organizational Behavior (POB). The POB has been derived from Psychological Capital and Psychological Ownership. These have been useful for implementing organizational development. POB and Social Intelligence studies in engineering classroom setting are important to today's engineering leadership development. This paper examines the intended outcomes of an Organizational Behavior (OB) course in shaping Positive Organizational Behavior (POB) using different tools - Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ), Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ), Psychological Ownership Questionnaire (POQ), which were administered as pre and post semester basis. An analysis of result has been provided that can be directly attributed to the effects of carefully designed interventions in the course. © 2011 IEEE.