The Impact of Positive Psychological Capital on Political Behaviour in Organizations: A Study on Academic Staff

Abstract

The aim of this study is determining the impact of positive psychological capital on political behaviour. The study was conducted on 375 academic staff in 39 foundation universities and 8 public universities in İstanbul. The data were collected through Psychological Capital Questionnaire developed by Luthans, Youssef and Avolio (2007: 237) and adapted into Turkish by Çetin and Basım (2012, s. 121) and Political Behaviour Inventory developed by Börü and İslamoğlu (2007a, s. 135). The results of the study show that the academic staff with low level of psychological capital tend to engage in making concessions, exaggeration and insincerity and exchange of favors more than the academic staff with high level of psychological capital.