The Positive Organization

Author : Robert E. Quinn
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626565630

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The Positive Organization by Robert E. Quinn Pdf

Beholden to accepted assumptions about people and organizations, too many enterprises waste human potential. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel fully engaged and continually rewarded, where both individually and collectively they flourish and exceed expectations. The problem is that leaders are following a negative and constraining “mental map” that insists organizations must be rigid, top-down hierarchies and that the people in them are driven mainly by self-interest and fear. But leaders can adopt a different mental map, one where organizations are networks of fluid, evolving relationships and where people are motivated by a desire to grow, learn, and serve a larger goal. Using dozens of memorable stories, Quinn describes specific actions leaders can take to facilitate the emergence of this organizational culture—helping people gain a sense of purpose, engage in authentic conversations, see new possibilities, and sacrifice for the common good. The book includes the Positive Organization Generator, a tool that provides 100 real-life practices from positive organizations and helps you reinvent them to fit your specific needs. With the POG you can identify and implement the practices that will have the greatest impact on your organization. At its heart, the book helps leaders to see new possibilities that lie within the acknowledged realities of organizational life. It provides five keys for learning to be "bilingual"--speaking the conventional language of business as well as the language of the positive organization. When leaders can do this, they are able to make real and lasting change.

Author : Kim Cameron,Jane Dutton
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781576759660

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Positive Organizational Scholarship by Kim Cameron,Jane Dutton Pdf

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.

Author : Robert E. Quinn
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1459696786

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The Positive Organization: Breaking Free from Conventional Cultures, Constraints, and Beliefs (Large Print 16pt) by Robert E. Quinn Pdf

Beholden to accepted assumptions about people and organizations, too many enterprises waste human potential. Robert Quinn shows how to defy convention and create organizations where people feel fully engaged and continually rewarded, where both individually and collectively they flourish and exceed expectations. The problem is that leaders are following a negative and constraining ''mental map'' that insists organizations must be rigid top - down hierarchies and that the people in them are driven mainly by self - interest and fear. Quinn offers a more positive mental map and, using dozens of memorable stories, shows how leaders can facilitate the emergence of a more positive organizational culture by helping people gain a sense of purpose, engage in authentic conversations, see new possibilities, and sacrifice for the common good. The book includes the Positive Organization Generator, a tool that enables leaders to identify and implement the positive practices their organization most needs. At its heart, Quinn's book helps leaders transform organizations by changing themselves and those around them from being comfort - centered to being results - centered, from being self - focused to being other - focused, and from being hidebound and suspicious to being eagerly welcoming of new ideas.

Author : Arnold B. Bakker
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781780520001

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Advances in Positive Organization by Arnold B. Bakker Pdf

Attempts to build a bridge between POB and Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). This volume includes contributions from both fields, and theories and studies in which a positive individual perspective (POB) is combined with a positive organization perspective (POS).

Author : Kim S. Cameron,Gretchen M. Spreitzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199989959

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The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship by Kim S. Cameron,Gretchen M. Spreitzer Pdf

Revised edition of: Oxford handbook of positive psychology and work / edited by P. Alex Linley, Susan Harrington, Nicola Garcea. -- Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Author : Kim S. Cameron
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609945664

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Positive Leadership by Kim S. Cameron Pdf

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

Author : Karen Golden-Biddle,Jane E. Dutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136486555

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Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations by Karen Golden-Biddle,Jane E. Dutton Pdf

How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers interested in change and organizations in different problem domains (sustainability, healthcare, and poverty alleviation). The contributors to this book bring different theoretical lenses to the question of social change and organizations. Some are anchored in more macro accounts of how and why social change processes occur, while others approach the question from a more psychological or social psychological perspective. Many of the chapters in the book travel across levels of analyses, making their accounts of social change good examples of multi-level theorizing. Some scholars are practiced and immersed in thinking about organizational phenomena through a positive lens; for others it was a total adventure in trying on a new set of glasses. However, connecting all contributing authors was an excitement and willingness to explore new insights and new angles on how to explain and cultivate social change within or across organizations. This edited volume will be of interest to an international community who seek to understand how organizations and people can generate positive outcomes for society. Students and researchers in organizational behavior, management, positive psychology, leadership and corporate responsibility will find this book of interest.

Author : Thomas N. Duening
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781631573262

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Leading The Positive Organization by Thomas N. Duening Pdf

Positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship have begun to have an impact on the enterprise. It is important for organizational leaders at all levels to understand this powerful new framework. This volume brings together a wide range of organizational scholars who have derived implications from positive research for the modern enterprise. Engaging topics from leadership, to self-esteem, and to conflict resolution, this book provides practical tools, actions, and processes that can be used to create positive organizations.

Author : Jane E. Dutton,Gretchen M. Spreitzer
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626560307

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How to Be a Positive Leader by Jane E. Dutton,Gretchen M. Spreitzer Pdf

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.

Author : Jane E. Dutton,Belle Rose Ragins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351567367

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Exploring Positive Relationships at Work by Jane E. Dutton,Belle Rose Ragins Pdf

This edited volume brings together a select group of leading organizational scholars for the purpose of developing a foundation-setting book on positive relationships at work. Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) is a rich new interdisciplinary domain of inquiry that focuses on the generative processes, relational mechanisms and outcomes associated with positive relationships between people at work. This volume builds a solid foundation for this promising new area of scholarly inquiry and offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how relationships at work become a source of growth, vitality, learning and generative states of human and collective flourishing. A unique feature of the book is the use of a connecting commentator chapter at the end of each section. The Commentator Chapters, written by preeminent scholars, uncover and discuss integrative themes that emerge within sections. The editors approach the topic from multiple levels, each level providing critical, valuable insights into the dynamic process underlying positive relationships at work. These levels are arranged in five parts: an introduction to positive relationships at work; Individuals and Dyads; Groups and Communities; Organizations and Organizing; and a conclusion that offers an engaging invitation and multi-level map for guiding future research. This volume will appeal to academics and practitioners, as well as scholars and graduate students in organizational psychology, management, human resources, and inter-personal communications.

Author : Laura Morgan Roberts,Jane E. Dutton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135419394

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Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations by Laura Morgan Roberts,Jane E. Dutton Pdf

In the new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is consequential and challenging for individuals, for groups and for organizations. New challenges for positive identity construction and maintenance require new theory. This edited volume uncovers new topics and new theoretical approaches to identity through the specific focus on positive identities of individuals, groups, organizations and communities. This volume aims to forge new ground in identity research and organizations through a compilation of new frame-breaking chapters on positive identity written by leading identity scholars. In chapters that build theoretical and empirical bridges between identity and growth, authenticity, relationships, hope, sustainability, leadership, resilience, cooperation, and community reputation and other important variables, the authors jumpstart an exciting domain of research on new ways that work organizations are sites of and contributors to identities that are beneficial or valuable to individuals or collectives. This volume invites readers to consider, "When and how does applying a positive lens to the construct of identity generate new insights for organizational researchers?" A unique feature of this volume is that it brings together explorations of identity from multiple levels of analysis: individual, dyadic, group, organization and community. Commentary chapters integrate the chapters within each level of analysis, illuminate core themes and unearth new questions. The volume is designed to accomplish three objectives: To establish Positive Identities and Organizations as an interdisciplinary, multi-level domain of inquiry To integrate a focus on Positive Identity with existing theory and research on identity and organizations To map out a vibrant new research territory in organizational studies . This volume will appeal to an international community of scholars in Management, Psychology, and Sociology, as well as practitioners who seek to generate positive identity-related dynamics, states and outcomes in work organizations.

Author : David L. Cooperrider,Diana Whitney,Peter F. Sorensen
Publisher : Stipes Publishing, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Appreciative inquiry
ISBN : 0875639313

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Appreciative Inquiry by David L. Cooperrider,Diana Whitney,Peter F. Sorensen Pdf

A positive revolution in change: appreciative inquiry / David L. Cooperrider and Diana Whitney -- Positive image, positive action: the affirmative basis of organizing / David Cooperrider -- Appreciative inquiry in organizational life / David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva -- Five theories of change embedded in appreciative inquiry / Gervase Bushe -- Advances in appreciative inquiry as an organization development intervention / Gervase Bushe -- The "child" as agent of inquiry / David L. Cooperrider -- Resources for getting appreciative inquiry started: an example OD proposal / David L. Cooperrider -- An appreciative inquiry into the factors of culture continuity during leadership transactions: a case study of LeadShare, Canada / Mary Ann Rainey -- Survey guided appreciative inquiry: a case study / Rita F. Williams -- Initiating culture change in higher education through appreciative inquiry / Robert L. Head and Michele M. Young -- Saving tomorrow's workforce / Chrisopher Anne Easley, Therese Yaeger, and Peter Sorensen -- Appreciative inquiry with teams / Gervase R. Bushe -- A field experiment in appreciative inquiry / David A. Jones -- Appreciative inquiry meets the logical positivist / Peter F. Sorensen [and others] -- Is appreciative inquiry OD's philosopher's stone / Thomas C. Head [and others] -- Postmodern principles and practices for large scale organization change and global cooperation / Diana Whitney -- Organizational inquiry model for global social change organizations / Jane Magruder Watkins and David Cooperrider -- From deficit discourse to vocabularies of hope; the power of appreciation / James D. Ludema

Author : Dean Tjosvold
Publisher : Reading, Mass. ; Don Mills, Ont. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076001032270

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The Conflict-positive Organization by Dean Tjosvold Pdf

Author : Kim Cameron
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523093847

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Positively Energizing Leadership by Kim Cameron Pdf

This practical guide, the first to show how leaders can achieve extraordinary results through the positive energy generated by virtuous interactions with employees, is written by one of the giants in the study of positive leadership. This book reveals one of the most important but frequently ignored factors that lead to spectacular performance in organizations. Kim Cameron, a true pioneer in the study of positive leadership, offers validated scientific evidence that all individuals are inherently attracted to and flourish in the presence of positive energy, a principle known in biology as heliotropism. Further, he shows that the positive relational energy generated by leaders' virtuous behaviors—such as generosity, compassion, gratitude, trustworthiness, forgiveness, and kindness—is tightly linked to extraordinary organizational outcomes like greater innovation, higher profits, and increased engagement and retention. Cameron has not written a feel-good tome about the power of positive thinking, “happiology,” or unbridled optimism. This research-based explanation shows how to achieve performance that exceeds expectations. He provides practical suggestions, assessments, and exercises showing how leaders can improve their own positive energy and increase positive relational energy in their organizations. Positively Energizing Leadership is a major contribution to the theory and practice of leadership.

Author : Sarah Lewis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119996217

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Positive Psychology at Work by Sarah Lewis Pdf

Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence. Draws together positive psychology and appreciative inquiry in the context of leadership organizational challenges for the first time Presents academically rigorous and referenced material in a jargon-free, accessible manner Arranged with chapters focused on specific organizational challenges to allow readers to quickly find ideas relevant to their unique situation Features short contributions from experienced practitioners of positive psychology and Appreciative Inquiry, and includes case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA