Positive Organizational Scholarship Foundations of a New Discipline

by Cameron, Kim S.; Dutton, Jane E.; Quinn, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9781576752326
• ISBN10: 1576752321
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-10
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

Positive Organizational Scholarship is a book that helps establish a new field of study in the organizational sciences. It examines a variety of positive dynamics in organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes, often described by words such as excellence, thriving, flourishing, abundance, vitality, and resilience. POS has a bias toward life-giving, generative, and ennobling human phenomena. It represents a value perspective based on ideas of "goodness" and positive human potential. POS is distinguished from traditional organizational studies in that it seeks to understand what represents the best of the human condition, and it does so in rigorous ways, based on scholarly research and theory. Chapters in this volume will serve as the key reference material for those interested in understanding exceptional, virtuous, life- giving, and flourishing individual and organizational behaviour.

Author Biography

Kim S. Cameron is professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the University of Michigan Business School and professor of higher education in the School of Education at the University of Michigan Jane E. Dutton is the William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan Robert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliott Tracy Collegiate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the University of Michigan Business School

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Foundations of Positive Organizational Scholarship	p. 3
Positive Organizational Studies: Lessons from Positive Psychology	p. 14
Virtuous Processes, Strengths, and Positive Organizing	p. 29
Virtues and Organizations	p. 33
Organizational Virtuousness and Performance	p. 48
Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy	p. 66
Acts of Gratitude in Organizations	p. 81
Organizing for Resilience	p. 94
Investing in Strengths	p. 111
Transcendent Behavior	p. 122
Courageous Principled Action	p. 138
Upward Spirals and Positive Change	p. 159
Positive Emotions and Upward Spirals in Organizations	p. 163
Positive and Negative Emotions in Organizations	p. 176
New Knowledge Creation in Organizations	p. 194
Positive Deviance and Extraordinary Organizing	p. 207
Toward a Theory of Positive Organizational Change	p. 225
Authentic Leadership Development	p. 241
Positive Meanings and Positive Connections	p. 259
The Power of High-Quality Connections	p. 263
A Theory of Relational Coordination	p. 279
Finding Positive Meaning in Work	p. 296
Fostering Meaningfulness in Working and at Work	p. 309
Positive Organizational Network Analysis and Energizing Relationships	p. 328
Empowerment and Cascading Vitality	p. 343
Conclusion	p. 359
Developing a Discipline of Positive Organizational Scholarship	p. 361
References	p. 371
Index	p. 449
About the Contributors	p. 457
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