Leadership and Positivity in Organizations: An Analysis of Different Articles

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. Positivity helps to develop the strengths of the employees can pave the path for
development of organization. Positivity in an organisation can help the employees in
navigating through the challenging work environment (Avey, Luthans and Jensen 2009). This
essay discusses analysis of different articles related to leadership and positivity.
First article stresses on the importance of psychological capital that can help the
employees of an organization in succeeding at the tasks that are challenging. Heavier
workload along with increasing amount of business travel increases the stress level of the
employees of an organization. The article discusses that workplace stress is an important
issue pertaining to human resource management as there are connection between stress and
that of performance of employees. The factors like efficacy, hope and optimism can help in
maximising the performance of employees within an organisation.
Transformational leadership can help in increasing the efficiency of employees
working in an organisation. According to Walumbwa, Avolio and Zhu (2008), the individuals
as the personal agents should be equipped with capacity of self-reflection that can help them
in addressing the performance challenges that they encounter within the organization. The
article talks about social identity theory that can help an individual feel at one with the
organization. The transformational leaders being pro-active along with change-oriented can
help in the aspect of extracting extra effort from the members working in an organization. A
transformational leader has a great influence on the follower and this kind of leadership style
makes the followers sacrifice so that they can contribute to success of work unit. The article
elaborates on the fact that transformational leaders can make the followers prioritize on the
aspect of larger collective cause instead of focussing on the self-interests. The article states
that transformational leaders play an important role in positively relating individual
identification of the employees with that of work unit. Identification can help an individual in

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providing an individual with that of a frame of reference that can help them in linking the
social situation to his individual action.
It has been argued by Avey, Wernsing and Luthans (2008), positive emotions can
make an individual socially integrated within the organization. Positive emotions felt by an
employee can help in widening thoughts along with actions which come to the mind of an
individual. The psychological resources that are generated by the employees can help them in
experiencing the positive emotions that can pave the path for emotional engagement of
employees with that of the organization. The article states that employee engagement will
have an effect on the individual employees and it can also have the impact of motivating the
other members of a team. It can have positive influence on organizational change. The
employees having high positive emotions have fewer cynical attitudes in relation to
organizational change. The article states that the cynical attitude that employees have towards
the aspect of organizational change can be decreased with the help of positive emotions. The
article talks about “mindful organizing” that can help an employee in developing resilience to
that of the unexpected events.
Asset management can help in the delivering of public services in a safe manner
without any kind of breakdowns. It has been brought out by Xerri et al. (2015) that supervisor
should carry out the role in a manner that can help in achieving highest job performance from
the employees of an organization. The leader-member exchange in an organisation can be
said to be positively associated with that of the affective outcomes. The article states that
leader-member exchange relationship can pave the path for stronger organisational
commitment. The poor quality pertaining to leader-member exchange can constrain pro-
active behaviour of the employees and it brings about the aspect of low commitment among
the employees of an organisation. The article discusses that proactive approach in relation to
engineering asset management can help in enhancing profitability in relation to an