Positive Organisational Behavior

According to the study and application of positive oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed and effectively managed for performance improvement in today's workplace. This was a response led by Seligman that corrected the notion that psychology was a tool to explain what was negative, ineffective, problematic and pathological in the human behavior. People believing in positive OB hold the opinion that sufficient attention needs to be given to strengths and positive aspect of OB, explaining not only the worst but also some of the best aspect of life.

According to the study of researchers, identified five positive element in the approach to OB currently: Confidence, Hope, Optimism, Subjective well-being and Emotional Intelligence. These five elements are relatively new entries in the mainstream literature on OB, though many concepts have been around in some other form for quite some time. If I talk about the concept of self-efficacy is quite old, and is related to confidence. Subjective well-being is studied as related to attitudes, especially, job satisfaction. Though Hope and Optimism are different concepts, they can be related to each other closely but, in term of the network of their meanings and emotional intelligence is also discussed quite comprehensively from the perspective of personality as well as leadership.

According to Indian organization, There are also five categories of Positive OB. These are; Internality, Self Management, Optimism, Trust and Collaboration. While the concepts of Internality is a part of personality related perception shaped by culture. Self Management is also one of the components of emotional intelligence. If I talk about Optimism and Trust, Optimism is derived from the humanistic tradition in Organizational Behavior and Trust is understood as a positive expectancy that the other person will not act opportunistically and we can say that  It is a risk that a person takes in an interpersonal relationship. And finally, Collaboration as a positive OB force relevant to industries, organizations, groups and individuals in India.