Positive Organizational Scholarship

Positive Organizational Scholarship
Author: Kim Cameron
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2003-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1576759660

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship
Author: Kim S. Cameron
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1105
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199989958

An ideal resource for organizational scholars, students, practitioners, and human resource managers, this handbook covers the full spectrum of organizational theories and outcomes that define, explain, and predict the occurrence, causes, and consequences of positivity.

The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Education

The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Education
Author: Margaret L. Kern
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 788
Release: 2021
Genre: Child psychology
ISBN: 3030645371

"The approaches outlined in this volume will help expand the narrow focus on academic success to include psychological well-being for students and educators alike. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how positive outcomes such as life satisfaction, positive emotion, and meaning and purpose can be optimized in the educational settings." -- Judith Moskowitz, PhD MPH, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA, IPPA President 2019-2021 This open access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing field of positive education, featuring a broad range of theoretical, applied, and practice-focused chapters from leading international experts. It demonstrates how positive education offers an approach to understanding learning that blends academic study with life skills such as self-awareness, emotion regulation, healthy mindsets, mindfulness, and positive habits, grounded in the science of wellbeing, to promote character development, optimal functioning, engagement in learning, and resilience. The handbook offers an in-depth understanding and critical consideration of the relevance of positive psychology to education, which encompasses its theoretical foundations, the empirical findings, and the existing educational applications and interventions. The contributors situate wellbeing science within the broader framework of education, considering its implications for teacher training, education and developmental psychology, school administration, policy making, pedagogy, and curriculum studies. This landmark collection will appeal to researchers and practitioners working in positive psychology, educational and school psychology, developmental psychology, education, counselling, social work, and public policy. Margaret (Peggy) L. Kern is Associate Professor at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education, Australia. Dr Kern is Founding Chair of the Education Division of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). You can find out more about Dr Kern's work at www.peggykern.org. Michael L. Wehmeyer is Ross and Mariana Beach Distinguished Professor of Special Education; Chair of the Department of Special Education; and Director and Senior Scientist, Beach Center on Disability, at the University of Kansas, United States. Dr Wehmeyer is Publications Lead for the Education Division of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is an author or editor of 42 texts. .

Positive Leadership

Positive Leadership
Author: Kim S. Cameron
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1609945662

This is a guide to positive climate, positive relationships, positive communication, and positive meaning and how to apply each of them in work.

Letters to Garrett

Letters to Garrett
Author: Robert E. Quinn
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2002-04-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780787961152

When Robert Quinn's son Garrett went away to college, he was frustrated and wondered how he could shake off his feelings of depression and anxiety. It was a transition that was difficult for both father and son. Bob finally realized that Garrett didn't need to be fixed; he needed his father's love and support. Bob invited Garrett to exchange letters, and together they embarked on an extraordinary journey. Their letters explore myriad topics-- how to find purpose, live with increased meaning and power, and how we can clarify our core values. But the most important lesson learned is that human progress begins when individuals choose to transform themselves.

How to Be a Positive Leader

How to Be a Positive Leader
Author: Jane E. Dutton
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1626560307

Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people's—and their own—capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholars—including Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational scholarship movement cofounders Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn; and thirteen more—describe how this is being done at companies such as Wells Fargo, Ford, Kelly Services, Burt's Bees, Connecticut's Griffin Hospital, the Michigan-based Zingerman's Community of Businesses, and many others. They show that, like the butterfly in Brazil whose flapping wings create a typhoon in Texas, you can create profound positive change in your organization through simple actions and attitude shifts.

ABS (American behavioral scientist)

ABS (American behavioral scientist)
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2005
Genre: Organizational learning
ISBN: 9780761930716

The embodiment of sound and cohesion in music / Jennifer Winther -- Digital recording and the reconfiguration of music as performance / Jan Marontate -- Taylorism, managerial control strategies and the ballets of Balanchine and Stravinsky / Jean Van Delinder -- Gender power : the influence of blues queens, 1921-1929 . William F. Danaher -- Signifying deviance and transgression : jazz in the popular imagination / Paul Lopes -- The push and pull of hip-hop : s social movement analysis / Erin Trapp -- Body and soul : jazz in the 1920s / Scott Appelrouth -- Retrospective cultural consecration in popular music : Rolling Stone's greates albums of all time / Vaughan Schmutz -- Rock n roll experiences in middle age / Joseph A. Kotarba.

Practicing Positive Leadership

Practicing Positive Leadership
Author: Kim Cameron
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1609949749

Plenty of research has been done on why companies go terribly wrong, but what makes companies go spectacularly right? That’s the question that Kim Cameron asked over a decade ago. Since then, Cameron and his colleagues have uncovered the principles and practices that set extraordinarily effective organizations apart from the merely successful. In his previous book Positive Leadership, Cameron identified four strategies that enable these organizations, and the individuals within them, to flourish: creating a positive climate, positive relationships, positive communication, and positive meaning. Here he lays out specific tactics for implementing them. These are not feel-good nostrums—study after study (some cited in this book) have proven positive leadership delivers breakthrough bottom-line results. Thanks to Cameron’s concise how-to guide, now any organization can be “positively deviant,” achieving outcomes that far surpass the norm.

Positive Organizational Behavior

Positive Organizational Behavior
Author: Debra Nelson
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781412912136

Positive Organizational Behavior is emerging as a truly contemporary movement within the classic discipline of organizational behavior. The best work of leading scholars is gathered together in one edited collection. Chapters present the states, traits, and processes that compromise this exciting new science. In addition to mapping the field, this collection goes one step further and invites noted experts to identify the methodological challenges facing scholars of positive organizational behavior. Positive Organizational Behavior constitutes the study of positive human strengths and competencies, how it can be facilitated, assessed and managed to improve performance in the workplace . Its roots are firmly within positive psychology but transplanted to the world of work and organizations.