Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, course: Master of Commerce, language: English, abstract: Today's business environment is facing the challenges and problems to achieve effective performance by employees. The core construct of psychological capital or PsyCap (involving Hope, Self-efficacy, Optimism and Resilience) is associated with various employees attitudinal or performance effects. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the influence of the dimensions of psychological capital (hope, optimism, self-efficacy...