Contents
1. Introduction
What is Positive about Positive Organizational Scholarship?
Kim C. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer
Part One: Positive Individual Attributes
2. Psychological Capital
Psychological Capital: Meaning, Findings, and Future Directions
Carolyn M. Youssef and Fred Luthans
3. Prosocial Motivation
Prosocial motivation at work: When, Why, and How Making a
Difference Makes a Difference
Adam M. Grant and Justin M. Berg
4. Callings in Work
Callings
Amy Wrzesniewski
5. Work Engagement
Being There: Work Engagement and Positive Organizational
Scholarship
Nancy P. Rothbard and Shefali V. Patil
6. Positive Identity
Positive Identity Construction: Insights from Classical and
Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
Laura Morgan Roberts and Stephanie J. Creary
7. Proactivity
Proactivity in the Workplace: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Chiahuei Wu and Sharon K. Parker
8. Creativity
Striving for Creativity: Building Positive Contexts in the
Workplace
Jing Zhou and Run Ren
9. Curiosity
Organizing the Cat? Generative Aspects of Curiosity in
Organizational Life
Spencer Harrison
10. Positive Traits
Some Traits Associated with Flourishing at Work
Joyce E. Bono, Stacy E. Davies, and Rena L. Rasch
11. The Neuroscience Underpinning of POS
Exploring the Minds of Managers: Insights from Three Neuroscience
Studies
Richard P. Bagozzi and Willem Verbeke
Part Two: Positive Emotions
12. Positive Energy
Human Energy in Organizations: Implications for POS From Six
Interdisciplinary Streams
Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Chak Fu Lam, and Ryan W. Quinn
13. Positive Emotions
Positive emotions: Broadening and Building Upward Spirals of
Sustainable Enterprises
Leslie E. Sekerka, Tanya Vacharkulksemsuk, and Barbara L.
Fredrickson
14. Subjective Well-being
Subjective Well-being in Organizations
Arnold B. Bakker and Wido G.M. Oerlemans
15. Passion
Passion
Kimberly H. Perttula and Melissa S. Cardon
16. Emotional Intelligence
Social Context and the Psychology of Emotional Intelligence: A Key
to Creating Positive Organizations
Oscar Ybarra, Laura Rees, Ethan Kross, and Jeffrey
Sanchez-Burks
17. Group Emotions
Shared Positive Affect in Workgroups
Seung-Yong Rhee and Hye Jeong Yoon
Part Three: Strengths and Virtues
18. Virtuousness
Virtuousness in Organizations
Kim S. Cameron and Bradley Winn
19. Forgiveness
Forgiveness at Four Levels: Intrapersonal, Relational,
Organizational, and Collective-Group
David S. Bright and Julie J. Exline
20. Humility
Exploring the Relevant and Implications of Humility in
Organizations
Bradley P. Owens, Wade C. Rowatt, and Alan L. Wilkins
21. Compassion
Compassion Revealed: What We Know About Compassion at Work (and
Where We Need to Know More)
Jacoba M. Lilius, Jason Kanov, and Jane E. Dutton
22. Hope
Imagining Hope in Organizations: From Individual Goal-Attainment to
Horizons of Relational Possibility
Arne Carlsen, Aina Landsverk Hagen, and Tord F. Mortensen
23. Courage
Courage in Organizations: An Integrative Review of the "Difficult
Virtue"
Monica C. Worline
24. Justice
A Positive Lens on Organizational Justice: Toward a Moral,
Constructive, and Balanced Approach to Reactions to Third-Party
(In)Justice
David M. Mayer
25. Integrity
Research on Behavioral Integrity: A Promising Construct for
Positive Organizational Scholarship
Tony Simons, Edward C. Tomlinson, and Hannes Leroy
26. Positive Ethics
Positive Business Ethics: Grounding and Elaborating a Theory of
Good Works
Jason M. Stansbury and Scott Sonenshein
27. Leveraging Strengths
Productivity through Strength
Jim Asplund and Nikki Blacksmith
28. Character Strengths in Global Managers
The Positive Power of Character Strengths and Virtues for Global
Leaders
Armenio Rego, Stewart Clegg, and Miguel Pinha e Cunha
Part Four: Positive Relationships
29. High Quality Connections
High Quality Connections
John Paul Stephens, Emily Heaphy, and Jane E. Dutton
30. Relational Coordination
New Directions for Relational Coordination Theory
Jody Hoffer Gittell
31. Reciprocity
A Dual Model of Reciprocity in Organizations: Moral Sentiments and
Reputation
Wayne Baker
32. Intimacy
Workplace Intimacy in Leader-Follower Relationships
Ronit Kark
33. Civility
Civility
Christine L. Porath
34. Trust
POS and Trust in Leaders
Aneil K. Mishra and Karen E. Mishra
35. Trustworthiness
Perspective Taking: Building Positive Interpersonal Connections and
Trustworthiness One Interaction at a Time
Michele Williams
36. Humor
The Laughter Advantage: Cultivating High Quality Connections and
Workplace Outcomes Through Humor
Cecily D. Cooper and John Sosik
37. Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: A Foundation for Speaking Up, Collaboration,
and Experimentation in Organizations
Ingrid M. Nembhard and Amy C. Edmondson
Part Five: Positive Human Resource Practices
38. Career Development
Personal Growth Through Career Work: A Positive Approach to
Careers
Douglas T. Hall and Mireia Las Heras
39. Mentoring
Relational Mentoring: A Positive Approach to Mentoring at Work
Belle Rose Ragins
40. Socialization
Socialization Perspectives and Positive Organizational
Scholarship
Blake E. Ashforth, Karen K. Myers, and David M. Sluss
41. Diversity
A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations
Lakshmi Ramarajan and David Thomas
42. Communication
The Role of Communication in Positive Organizational
Scholarship
Larry D. Browning, G.H. Morris, and Kerk F. Kee
43. Conflict Resolution
Parallel and Divergent Predictors of Objective and Subjective Value
in Negotiation
Jared R. Curhan and Ashley D. Brown
44. Negotiating
The Mindful Negotiator: Strategic Emotion Management and
Wellbeing
Shirli Kopelman, Orli Avi-Yonah, and Akshaya K. Varghese
45. Work-Family Dynamics
Positive Work-Family Dynamics
Jessica Keeney and Remus Ilies
Part Six: Positive Organizational Practices
46. Symbolism in Organizations
The Generative Potency of Organizational Symbols: Implications for
Positive Organizational Scholarship
Mary Ann Glynn and Lee Watkiss
47. Resourcefulness
Resources, Resourcing, and Ampliative Cycles in Organizations
Martha Feldman and Monica Worline
48. Collective Efficacy
Collective Efficacy Beliefs, Organizational Excellence, and
Leadership
Roger D. Goddard and Serena J. Salloum
49. The Design of Work
The Design of Jobs: A Strategy for Enhancing the Positive Outcomes
of Individuals at Work
Greg R. Oldham
50. Mindful Organizing
Mindful Organizing: Establishing and Extending the Foundations of
Highly Reliable Performance
Timothy J. Vogus
51. Organizational Identity
The Defining Role of Organizational Identity for Facilitating
Stakeholder Flourishing: A Map for Future Research
Celia V. Harquail and Shelley L. Brickson
52. Organizational Energy
Organizational Energy
Bernd Vogel and Heike Bruch
53. Innovation
Innovativeness as Positive Deviance: Identifying and
Operationalizing the Attributes, Functions and Dynamics that Create
Growth
Jeff DeGraff and Dan Nathan-Roberts
54. Organizational Boundaries
Margins, Membership, and Mobility: Re-defining Boundaries in
Collaborative Endeavors
Rebekah Dibble and Cristina B. Gibson
Part Seven: Positive Leadership and Change
55. Organizational Development
The Spirits of Organization Development or Why OD Lives Despite Its
Pronounced Death
Jean M. Bartunek and Richard W. Woodman
56. Appreciative Inquiry
Positive Organizational Development: Innovation-Inspired Change in
an Economy and Ecology of Strengths
David L. Cooperrider and Lindsey N. Godwin
57. Positive Change Attributes
Seeing and Acting Differently: Positive Change in Organizations
Robert E. Quinn and Ned Wellman
58. Implementing Positive Change
What Makes an Organizational Change Process Positive?
Karen Golden-Biddle and Jina Mao
59. Authentic Leadership
Advances in Theory and Research on Authentic Leadership
Bruce J. Avolio and Ketan Mhatre
60. Leadership Development
Toward a Positive and Dynamic Theory of Leadership Development
D. Scott DeRue and Kristina M. Workman
61. Peak Performance
Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design and Senior
Leadership to Enable Strategic Paradox
Wendy K. Smith, Marianne W. Lewis, and Michael L. Tushman
62. Strategic Change
Emotions and Strategic Change
Quy Nguyen Huy
63. Strengths-Based Strategy
Positive Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Strengths-Based Strategy
That SOARs and Performs
Lynn Perry Wooten and Jacqueline M. Stavros
Part Eight: A Positive Lens on Problems and Challenges
64. Managing the Unexpected
Managing the Unexpected
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Marlys K. Christianson
65. Healing After Trauma
Organizational Healing: A Relational Process to Handle Major
Disruption
Edward H. Powley
66. Organizational Recovery
Recovery: Non-Work Experiences that Promote Positive States
Sabine Sonnentag, Cornelia Niessen, and Angela Neff
67. Responding to Crisis
Orientations of Positive Leadership in Times of Crisis
Erika Hayes James and Lynn Perry Wooten
68. Resilience Under Adversity
Resilience at Work: Building Capability in the Face of
Adversity
Brianna Barker Caza and Laurie P. Milton
69. Post-traumatic Growth
Post-traumatic growth: A Missed Opportunity for Positive
Organizational Scholarship
Sally Maitlis
70. Ambivalence
Just a Good Place to Visit? Exploring Positive Responses to
Psychological Ambivalence
Michael G. Pratt and Camille Pradies
71. Responding to Stress
Stress Interventions versus Positive Interventions: Apples and
Oranges?
Caroline Biron and Cary L. Cooper with Philip Gibbs
Part Nine: Expanding Positive Organizational Scholarship
72. Sustainability
Positive Deviance for a Sustainable World: Linking Sustainability
and Positive Organizational Scholarship
Andrew J. Hoffman and Nardia Haigh
73. Critical Theory
Critical Studies and POS
Arran Caza and Brigid Carroll
74. Economic Models
Strange Bedfellows: Homo Economicus and Positive Organization
Scholarship
Paul C. Godfrey
75. Social Movements
Social Movements in Organizations
Debra Guckenheimer
76. Spirituality
In God We Trust: A Comparison of Spiritualities at Work
Lloyd E. Sandelands
77. Positive Deviance
Positive Deviance: A Metaphor and Method for Learning from the
Uncommon
Marc Lavine
78. International Peacemaking
Five Steps Toward Peace Making: Using Positive Organizational
Scholarship to Build a Better World
J. B. Ritchie and Scott C. Hammond
79. Conclusion
A Path Forward: Assessing Progress and Exploring Core Questions for
the Future of Positive Organizational Scholarship
Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Kim C. Cameron
Kim S. Cameron, Ph.D., is William Russell Kelly Professor of
Management and Organization at the Ross School of Business and
Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education at the
University of Michigan.
Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Ph.D., is Area Chair and Professor of
Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the
University of Michigan.
"This excellent book seeks to discover what positive psychological
states motivate individuals and organizations in order to operate
at an optimal level. It focuses on strengths without ignoring
weaknesses. It is research-based, but easy to read. At the end, the
authors are even willing to question themselves, asking in the
concluding chapter: "Can there be too much positivity?" Their book
offers great ideas for individuals who are seeking to change
the
organizational structures they interact with." -- DOODY'S
"A pioneering book...It is based on extensive research, which gives
it enormous value." --BizIndia
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