1. What are the four widely recognized sources of self-efficacy? How could each be used to enhance employee efficacy to increase performance?
2. How does optimism in positive psychology go beyond the old "power of positive thinking"? Give an example of where "little optimism" may be different from "big optimism." Besides sales, give an example of where optimism may be very beneficial to work performance.
3. In positive psychology, how does the concept of hope go beyond "sunny advice"? Why may hope be particularly relevant to entrepreneurship and international human resource management?