As transformações do ambiente de negócios nas últimas décadas, e principalmente nos últimos anos, têm se mostrado muito intensas no setor Saúde globalmente, com reflexos significativos também no Brasil, e tem alterado profundamente o modo como os profissionais da Saúde desenvolvem suas carreiras em um cenário de competitividade. Cada vez mais o diferencial competitivo das organizações de cuidados à Saúde se baseia em capacidades organizacionais fundamentadas em fatores intangíveis diretamente relacionados às atitudes e competências desempenhadas pelos recursos humanos da organização. Por isso, como ocorre com outras organizações de serviços, as organizações de cuidados à Saúde podem desenvolver vantagem competitiva através de uma administração eficaz dos seus recursos humanos, especialmente dos seus líderes. Pesquisas que ampliem o conhecimento sobre as atitudes de carreiras dos gestores das organizações de Saúde podem ser críticas para o aperfeiçoamento dessas organizações na nova economia, que é o ambiente no qual ocorre o desenvolvimento das novas carreiras. A carreira proteana é um dos modelos de carreira subjetiva mais difundidos entre estudiosos das novas carreiras e corresponde a duas dimensões fundamentais de atitudes de carreira: atitudes de carreira autodirigida e atitudes de carreira dirigida por valores pessoais. Adicionalmente, o capital psicológico é uma forma de capital intangível que tem despertado a atenção de acadêmicos da Psicologia Positiva e do Comportamento Organizacional Positivo, devido às evidências de associação do mesmo com indicadores de desempenho organizacional. Considerando a relevância e a necessidade de estudos nacionais empíricos, tanto sobre atitudes de carreira proteana, quanto sobre capital psicológico de gestores da Saúde, a presente dissertação tem como objetivo investigar a influência das atitudes de carreira proteana no capital psicológico dos gestores da Saúde. Para tanto, foi realizada a pesquisa em uma organização de cuidados à Saúde, caracterizada como uma federação de cooperativas médicas. O estudo foi descritivo, quantitativo e a coleta de dados foi realizada através de uma survey eletrônica que teve como base escalas validadas nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil (escala de atitudes de carreira proteana e questionário de capital psicológico). A amostra não probabilística e intencional foi formada por 250 gestores. Os resultados das análises fatoriais e dos alfas de Cronbach afirmaram a validade e a confiabilidade dos instrumentos utilizados para amostra estudada. Os resultados da ANOVA e da análise discriminante demonstraram que as atitudes de carreira autodirigida são um preditor para o capital psicológico. Com isso, esta pesquisa contribui para a literatura sobre carreira proteana de gestores da Saúde de várias maneiras: ao testar o impacto das atitudes de carreira proteana no capital psicológico, oferecendo suporte empírico que demonstra a influência das atitudes de carreira autodirigida no capital psicológico de gestores de uma organização de cuidados à Saúde no Brasil; ao estudar as atitudes de carreira proteana em gestores da Saúde, contextualizando-as no âmbito da Saúde na nova economia; ao adaptar e validar o questionário de capital psicológico para o português do Brasil; ao validar a escala de atitudes de carreira proteana e o questionário de capital psicológico para uso em gestores da Saúde; e, por fim, ao refletir sobre o referencial da Psicologia Positiva na pesquisa sobre atitudes de carreira proteana. / Changes in the business environment in the last decades, and especially in the recent years, have been very intense in the Health sector globally, with significant impact also in Brazil, and has changed deeply how Health sector workers develop their careers in a competitive scenario. Increasingly, competitive advantage of Health care organizations is based on organizational capabilities related to intangible factors directly linked to the attitudes and skills performed by human resources of the organization. Therefore, as with other service organizations, Health care organizations can develop competitive advantage through effective human resources management, especially of their leaders. Researches that advance the scientific knowledge about the Health care managers\' career attitudes can be critical to the improvement of these organizations in the new economy, which is the environment where new careers develop. Protean career is one of the most widespread subjective career model among new careers scholars and corresponds to two fundamental dimensions of career attitudes: self-directed career attitudes and values-driven career attitudes. Additionally, psychological capital is a form of capital that has attracted scholars\' attention from Positive Psychology and Positive Organizational Behavior, due to evidences of its association to organizational performance indicators. Considering the importance and the need for empirical national studies on both Health sector managers\' protean career attitudes and psychological capital, this thesis was aimed to investigate the influence of protean career attitudes on psychological capital of Health sector managers. For this purpose, research was carried in a Health care organization, characterized as a federation of medical cooperatives. This study was descriptive and quantitative; data collection was carried out through an electronic survey that was based on validated scales for American and Brazilian populations (protean career attitudes scale and psychological capital questionnaire). The probabilistic and intentional sample was formed by 250 managers. Results of the factor analysis and Cronbach\'s alphas confirmed validity and reliability of the instruments for the studied sample. ANOVA and discriminant analysis results showed self-directed career attitudes are a predictor of psychological capital. Thus, this study contributes to the literature on Healthcare managers\' protean career in several ways, by: testing the impact of protean career attitudes on psychological capital, providing empirical support that demonstrates the influence of self-directed career attitudes on Healthcare managers\' psychological capital; studying Healthcare managers\' protean career attitudes, contextualizing them within the Healthcare sector in the new economy; adapting and validating the psychological capital questionnaire for Brazilian Portuguese; validating protean career attitudes scale and psychological capital questionnaire for use in Healthcare sector managers; and, finally, by reflecting on the Positive Psychology framework applied to the research on protean career attitudes.

Given the strong focus of both organizations and institutions of higher education on leadership development, understanding antecedents to leadership motivation is a topic of great interest. This pre- registered study set out to investigate personality factors as antecedents to motivation to lead (MTL) and positive psychological capital (PsyCap). Additionally, the framework was expanded by integrating PsyCap as a predictor of MTL and mediator between personality and MTL. 258 business students served as a convenience sample for the cross-sectional study. The online survey included measures of the Big Five personality factors, PsyCap, and MTL. Several multiple regression and mediation analyses were conducted. The findings supported the proposed role of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism as antecedents to PsyCap. Additionally, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and PsyCap were identified as predictors of affective-identity MTL and PsyCap was found to predict socio-normative MTL. The mediation hypotheses were partially supported. The results imply that developing students’ PsyCap can potentially benefit their leadership motivation and help preparing them for future careers through making beneficial first leadership experiences in academic settings. As limitations are discussed, further research specifically investigating the role of cultural values is encouraged.

Magister Commercii (Industrial Psychology) - MCom(IPS) / This study was motivated by the great need to probe on the impact cross-cultural psychological capital has on cultural intelligence (CQ), affective commitment (AC) and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) among diverse employees at a retail organisation. Globalisation has led to the increase in movement of the labour force due to economic, political and market force expansion, thus, this mobility has led to diversity in the workplace. However, this workforce diversity highlights the importance of cross-cultural skills in the workplace. The major purpose of this study is to study the influence of cross-cultural psychological capital on cultural intelligence, affective commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour.

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[pt] Diante de tantas mudanças inesperadas no cenário global, as maiores implicações são em pessoas e nas organizações. Isso porque é cada vez maior a imposição de antecipar os problemas e reagir às transformações. Devido a este novo contexto em que as organizações estão inseridas, se faz necessário que líderes se aproximem cada vez mais dos liderados, para que seja possível responder à intempérie de maneira proativa, levando em conta as diferenças individuais, diversidade de pensamentos, maneira como os significados são atribuídos e formas de lidar com o novo. Frente a esses desafios, este estudo se propõe a verificar a relação entre as virtudes do líder e a relação líder-liderado associadas a proatividade. O presente estudo foi realizado através de pesquisa quantitativa, baseada em um questionário respondido por 82 profissionais, entre líderes e liderados de uma indústria convertedora de papel localizada no estado do Rio de Janeiro. Os achados sugerem que as virtudes do líder estão positivamente relacionadas a relação líder-liderado, com destaque para a coragem e a justiça, e que afeta positivamente a proatividade dos colaboradores. O estudo aplicou ainda como variável de controle o capital psicológico dos participantes, fator com alto impacto nas relações estudadas nesta dissertação. / [en] Faced with so many unexpected changes in the global scenario, the biggest implications are for people and organizations. This is because the imposition of anticipating problems and reacting to changes is increasing. Due to this new context in which organizations are inserted, it is necessary for leaders to get closer and closer to those They followers, so that it is possible to respond to the elements in proactive way, taking into account indivisual diferences, diversity of thoughts, the way in which meanings are assigned and ways of dealing with the new. Faced with these challanges, this study aims to verify how the leader s virtues and the LMX relationship are associated with proactivity. The presente study was carried out thought quatitative research, based on a questionnaire ansewered by 82 professionals from a paper converting industry located in the state of Rio de Janeiro – Brasil. The findings suggest that the leader s virtues are positively related to the LMX relationship, with emphasis on courage and justice, and that it positively affects the employees proactivity. The study also applied the participants psychological capital as a control variable, a fator with a high impact on the relationship studied in this dissetation.

Magister Commercii (Industrial Psychology) - MCom(IPS) / Working students encounter challenges and responsibilities at university and work. In attempting to study the books and chapters assigned, meet assignment deadlines, take part in extracurricular activities and function at work, working students may be overwhelmed sensing inadequate time to complete all their responsibilities. These may lead to certain negative outcomes for the working student, such as languishing, poor grades, taking longer than the expected time to complete studies or, in the worse scenario, quitting their studies. The primary aim of this study was to examine and understand the influence of non-cognitive factors (including PsyCap, time management, and grit) on flourishing and the working students’ intention to quit employing correlational and hierarchical regression analysis.

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Master of Science / Department of Psychology / Ronald G. Downey / Firmly rooted in positive psychology, this study attempted to look beyond discovering the direction or shape of the stress-performance relationship and sought to instead determine the role of personality in this relationship. Although we were unable to test for moderation effects due to multicollinearity issues, we did discover that positive personality characteristics were a significant predictor of performance—even after controlling for experience and self-perceived stress. Interestingly, this relationship occurred in an opposite direction than expected in that higher levels of positive personality characteristics were predictive of lower performance ratings.

Entender a influência que o Sistema de Controle Gerencial (SCG) exerce nos funcionários é de suma importância para que uma empresa consiga alcançar seus objetivos. Entretanto, o foco das pesquisas sobre os efeitos dos SCG nos indivíduos tem tido forte incidência no comportamento disfuncional (Birnberg, Turopolec, & Young, 1983; Chenhall, 2006; Hartmann, 2000). Portanto, é urgente a necessidade de um novo olhar sobre o SCG, enfatizando o quanto o SCG pode aprimorar o potencial dos indivíduos, fazendo com que eles se empenhem para que a organização alcance seus objetivos. Assim, esta tese investiga os relacionamentos entre o Sistema de Controle Gerencial, o Capital Psicológico e satisfação no trabalho e o comprometimento organizacional. Fundamentado no framework das alavancas de controle de Simons (1995), este estudo tem por hipótese uma associação positiva entre o SCG e o Capital Psicológico, que é definido como um estado psicológico positivo de um indivíduo, que enfatiza o desenvolvimento de forças individuais, caracterizado por: autoeficácia, esperança, otimismo e resiliência. Ademais, investigou-se a hipótese de que há uma associação positiva entre o Capital Psicológico e a satisfação no trabalho e o comprometimento organizacional. Para alcançar os objetivos da pesquisa, realizou-se um survey single entity em uma empresa brasileira de grande porte do setor alimentício. Foram utilizadas duas técnicas de coleta de dados, questionário e entrevistas, a fim de obter uma análise ampla do fenômeno a ser estudado. As entrevistas foram realizadas com doze diretores e gerentes da empresa, com o objetivo de buscar uma compreensão mais profunda sobre o sistema de controle gerencial, a fim de agregar informações adicionais sobre os achados quantitativos. O questionário foi aplicado a uma amostra de 132 respondentes de uma população de 404, abrangendo gerentes e coordenadores de diversas áreas da organização. Os dados coletados pelo survey foram submetidos a técnicas estatística de análise descritiva e análise de equações estruturais (PLS-SEM). Os resultados indicaram que há uma forte associação entre o SCG e o Capital Psicológico, que, por sua vez, está relacionado com a satisfação no trabalho e o comprometimento organizacional. Esse resultado é relevante, ao demonstrar empiricamente o quanto o Sistema de Controle Gerencial pode aprimorar o potencial dos indivíduos, uma vez que o Capital Psicológico produz motivação e perseverança em direção à realização de metas, promovendo atitudes e comportamentos desejáveis e ajudando a aplacar resultados atitudinais e comportamentais indesejáveis (Avey, Reichard, et al., 2011; Luthans et al., 2015), contribuindo para que a organização adquira vantagem competitiva. / The understanding of the influence that the Management Control System (MCS) exerts on the employees is of paramount importance for the company to achieve its objectives. However, the focus of research on the effects of MCS on individuals has had a strong incidence on dysfunctional behavior (Birnberg, Turopolec, & Young, 1983; Chenhall, 2006; Hartmann, 2000). Therefore, there is a need for a new look at MCS, emphasizing how MCS can enhance individuals\' potential by making them strive for the organization to achieve its intended goals. Thus, this thesis investigates the relationships between the Management Control System, the Psychological Capital and job satisfaction and the organizational commitment. Based on the Levers of Control framework of Simons (1995), this study hypothesizes a positive association between MCS and Psychological Capital, which is defined as a positive psychological state of an individual that emphasizes the development of individual forces, characterized by self-efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience. In addition, was investigated the hypothesis that there is a positive association between Psychological Capital and job satisfaction and organizational commitment. To achieve the research objectives, a survey single entity was conducted in a large Brazilian company in the food sector. Two techniques of data collection, questionnaire and interviews, were used in order to obtain a broad analysis of the phenomena to be studied. The interviews were conducted with twelve directors and managers of the company, with the objective of seeking a deeper understanding of the company\'s management control system in order to aggregate additional information about the quantitative findings. The questionnaire was applied to a sample of 132 respondents from a population of 404, comprising managers and coordinators from various areas of the organization. The data collected by the survey were submitted to statistical techniques of descriptive analysis and analysis of structural equations (PLS-SEM). The results indicated that there is a strong association between MCS and Psychological Capital, which, in turn, is related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment. This result is relevant, by empirically demonstrating how the Management Control System can improve individuals\' potential, since Psychological Capital produces motivation and perseverance towards achieving goals by promoting desirable attitudes and behaviors and helping to placate undesirable attitudinal and behavioral outcomes (Avey, Reichard, et al., 2011; Luthans et al., 2015), contributing to the organization gaining competitive advantage.