How well do we innovate in todays competitive environment?
Optimistic employees believe that they are able to positively contribute to successful outcomes. They believe that the actions they took to a success in one situation will be the kind of action that will yield success in other, similar situations. If it works now, it will continue to work. So optimistic people repeat and extend the behavior that brings them, and their company, success. In one study that measured the positive emotions of 192 female business managers and then assessed job performance over 18 months, happier people got better evaluations and higher pay. (Long, B.; Kahn, S.; & Schultz, R.
