Positive Approaches to Organizational Change

Cantore, Stefan

doi:10.1002/9781118977620.ch16

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“…Other work in POS does, however, seem to have closer similarities to person-centered psychology, such as the application of SDT to developing motivation at work (e.g., Niemiec & Spence, 2017), which, as discussed above, shares the same set of assumptions about human nature as the PCA, or the use of appreciative inquiry (Cooperrider & Godwin, 2012) and dialogic organization development (Cantore, 2017), which seem to share a similar commitment to self-directed change as the PCA.…”

Section: Developing Humanistic Posmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why we need a more humanistic positive organizational scholarship: Carl Rogers’ person-centered approach as a challenge to neoliberalism.

Joseph¹

2020

The Humanistic Psychologist

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POS focuses specifically on what is positive, flourishing, and life-giving in organizations, and how to cultivate individual and organizational performance. In this article I will discuss the humanistic approach of Carl Rogers and how it can contribute to POS.Rogers is well known for his work on human relations and like POS he was concerned with the promotion of human flourishing. However, unlike POS, Rogers' approach was based on a distinctive view of human nature and non-directive practice. By comparison, it looks like POS talks the language of human flourishing while offering ways in which to control and direct people as part of the neoliberal hegemony that humanistic scholars might see as the problem. I would like to advocate for a humanistic POS; one which explicitly has the aim of liberation and empowerment.

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Section: Developing Humanistic Posmentioning

confidence: 99%