Psichological capital and telework

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Susana Paula Veríssimo Simões
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/25091
• topic: Teletrabalho -- Telework; Psychological capital; Satisfação no trabalho -- Job satisfaction; Self-leadership; Perception of telework; Intention to quit; Capital psicológico; Auto-liderança; Percepções no teletrabalho; Intenção de saida

The year 2020 will go down in history due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, it was a year of great challenges, which forced companies to speed up procedures, define new ways of working, as well as implement the digital transformation that has been going on for so many years. This survival instinct brought a new mindset to managers, workers and teams, who were forced to reduce resistance to change and recognized the real need to innovate. With this work, we intend to understand if the new work models applied in the context of a pandemic, more specifically telework, have the possibility of being considered as a form of future work in the sectors of activity in which it is possible to implement it. For this, we will evaluate the psychosocial risks that this decision can cause in people, through the mediation of Psychological Capital (Psycap), in a sample of 240 people from a private company. With this model, we were able to measure that the correlation between psychological capital and self-motivation people are better prepared and can see more advantages in the practice of teleworking. We can say that individuals with a higher psychological capital show greater openness to organizational change, greater work engagement, greater job satisfaction, less intention to leave, and therefore less job instability.