Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline

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Kim Cameron, Jane Dutton
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 09‏/08‏/2003 - 450 من الصفحات
Scholarship establishes a new field of study in the organizational sciences. Just as positive psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than pathological ones, Positive Organizational Scholarship focuses attention on optimal organizational states --- the dynamics in organizations that lead to the development of human strength, foster resiliency in employees, make healing, restoration, and reconciliation possible, and cultivate extraordinary individual and organizational performance.
While the concept of positive organizational scholarship encompasses the examination of typical and even dysfunctional patterns of behavior, it emphasizes positive deviance from expected patterns. Positive Organizational Scholarship examines the enablers, motivations, and effects associated with remarkably positive phenomena --- how they are facilitated, why they work, how they can be identified, and how researchers and managers can capitalize on them. The contributors do not adopt one particular theory or framework but draw from the full spectrum of organizational theories to understand, explain, and predict the occurrence, causes, and consequences of positivity.
Positive Organizational Scholarship rigorously seeks to understand what represents the best of the human condition based on scholarly research and theory. This book invites organizational scholars to build upon and extend the positive organizational phenomena being examined. It provides the definitional, theoretical, and empirical foundations for what will become a cumulative body of enduring work.

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Lessons from Positive
14
Virtuous ProcessesStrengths and Positive Organizing
29
Organizational Virtuousness and Performance
48
Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy
66
Acts of Gratitude in Organizations
81
Investing in Strengths
111
Courageous Principled Action
138
Upward Spirals and Positive Change
159
Toward a Theory of Positive Organizational Change
225
Authentic Leadership Development
241
Positive Meanings and Positive Connections
259
A Theory of Relational Coordination
279
Finding Positive Meaning in Work
296
Fostering Meaningfulness in Working and at Work
309
Positive Organizational Network Analysis and Energizing
328
Empowerment and Cascading Vitality
343

Positive and Negative Emotions in Organizations
176
New Knowledge Creation in Organizations
194
Positive Deviance and Extraordinary Organizing
207
Developing a Discipline of Positive Organizational Scholarship
361
Index
449
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