Psychological Capital (PsyCap) and Counterproductive Work Behaviour: Organizational Identification as a Mediator

Abstract: The present research aims to address two of the major gaps in PsyCap literature: investigating the processes (mediators/moderators) by which PsyCap influences outcomes, and testing PsyCap in a non-western context. The present study thus examined the relationship between PsyCap and employee counterproductive work behaviours (CWBs) through organizational identification (OID) in the Indian context. The current study used a quantitative survey-based research approach and has collected data from 204 employees from the Delhi-NCR region. PCQ-24 (Luthans et al. 2007), counterproductive work behaviour checklist (Spector, Bauer, & Fox, 2010), and organizational identification questionnaire (OIQ; Cheney, 1983) were used to measure PsyCap, CWBS, and organizational identification respectively. Data were analysed using SPSS. Descriptive analysis and mediation analysis were used to analyse the data. PsyCap was found to be positively related to OID, and negatively to CWBs. Mediation analysis showed that organizational identification mediated the relationship between PsyCap and CWBs having a large effect size. Future implications of the current research have been discussed.