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The flexibility of markets and international agreements have lured a growing number
of companies to expand their business beyond frontiers in search for new markets
and a bigger business network. Specifically, expatriates became keystones to implant
and promote the so desired expansion into international markets, Particularly, Fly-in flyout (FIFO) flexpatriates. Although FIFO work practices are widely used, little is known
about how to promote these professionals’ perceived job satisfaction (JS) across the
course of their work cycles. That is why the goal of our research is to test the positive
psychological capital (PsyCap) applicability to Portuguese FIFO flexpatriates. In the
midst of the positive psychology theories, Luthans et al. (2007b) underline that workers
are the psychological capital of any organization. Therefore, the development of the
PsyCap becomes crucial and also contributes to the promotion of JS, nowadays a
construct intertwined with well-being. As such, we developed and applied a HERO–
(hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism)–micro-intervention in order to assess
whether it moderated the relationship between a FIFO flexpatriates PsyCap and their
JS. The research took place over three distinct moments, both PsyCap and JS were
measured before and after the HERO micro-intervention, and again 3 months later.
The data collected shows that a positive correlation exists between FIFO flexpatriates
PsyCap and JS. Moreover, our results pointed out that the micro-intervention enhanced
FIFO flexpatriates PsyCap, and also showed that this increase lasted over (at least)
3 months.
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Keywords
FIFO, job satisfaction, micro-intervention, positive psychological capital, well-being
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Citation
Soares Marques N, Lopes MP and Gonçalves SP (2021) Positive Psychological Capital as a Predictor of Satisfaction With the Fly-In Fly-Out Model. Front. Psychol. 12:669524. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.669524