Exploring the role of hope in job performance: results from four studies

According to Snyder's hope theory, high hope individuals possess more goal-related strategies and are more motivated to achieve their goals than their low hope counterparts. Therefore, we employees of different job levels and industries. We found that more hopeful sales employees, mortgage brokers, and management executives had higher job performance, as measured a year later, even after controlling for their self-efficacy and cognitive ability. In a fourth study, we examined if more hopeful employees attempt to solve problems differently than do those with less hope. higher hope management executives produced more and better quality solutions to a work-related problem, suggesting that hopefulness amy help employees when they are confronted with problems ad encounter obstacles at work. Copyright (C) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.