Title: Conceptual and Empirical Highlights of Psychological Capital ( PsyCap)

Speaker：Dr. Fred Luthans, Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska.

Time: 10：00 -- 11：30 am. 23th May

Location: Room109, Guanghua New Building

BIO: Fred Luthans received his BA, MBA and PhD from the University of Iowa. He is University and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska. Before coming to Nebraska in 1967, while serving as an officer in the U.S. Army, he taught leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

A former President of the Academy of Management, Luthans also received the Academy’s Distinguished Educator Award. In addition to being a Fellow of DSI, he is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management and the Pan Pacific Association. He received the University of Iowa Distinguished Alumni Award and an Honorary Doctorate from De Paul University. Luthans is currently editor or co-editor of Journal of World Business, Organizational Dynamics, and Journal of Leadership and Organization Studies. He is the author of several well-known books and numerous research articles (e.g. he was recently recognized as one of the all-time “Top 5 Authors” of the Academy of Management Journal and the Review). He is generally recognized as the author of the first mainline textbook in Organizational Behavior (now in its 12th edition) and with Jonathan Doh has the market-leader in International Management (now in its 8th edition) both published by McGraw-Hill. His latest professional books are (with Bruce Avolio) The High Impact Leader (McGraw -Hill) and (with Carolyn Youssef and Bruce Avolio) Psychological Capital published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Luthans’ research at first focused on a behavioral approach to management or what he called O.B. Mod. (organizational behavior modification). In recent years, he has given relatively more attention to the theory-building, measurement and impact of a positive psychology approach to leadership and performance he has been the first to term “ positive organizational behavior (POB)” and “psychological capital (PsyCap)” in published articles and books. This evidenced-based approach is mainly drawn from measurable, “state-like” constructs, which are open to development and have performance impact. Specifically, these include hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism (or simply HERO) and when combined have been demonstrated to be a higher order, core construct.

He has been actively doing teaching, research and consulting in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and especially China over the past 30 years. In addition, for about 15 years he has been a Senior Research Scientist with the Gallup Organization. For further information see Wikipedia or Google Fred Luthans.

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