Positive Organizational Scholarship: What Does it Achieve?

Caza, Arran; Cameron, Kim S.

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“…Whereas the notion that crises provide opportunity is not new, much less is known about the factors that lead executives to be more versus less likely to perceive crises as opportunities. 1 From a scholarly perspective, the current article is squarely embedded in the burgeoning literature on positive organizational scholarship (POS), which is "based on the premise that understanding how to enable human excellence in organizations will unlock potential, reveal possibilities, and facilitate a more positive course of human and organizational welfare" (Cameron, Dutton, Quinn, & Spreitzer, 2006). One particularly important subarea of POS is positive organizational change, the very topic We gratefully acknowledge financial support provided by the Trustees of the Darden School Foundation and the Batten Institute.…”

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Toward an Understanding of When Executives See Crisis as Opportunity

Brockner

James

2008

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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Whereas it has long been noted that crises may be sources of opportunity for organizations and their constituents, relatively little is known about the conditions under which executives come to perceive crises as opportunity. The authors delineate some factors that affect the tendency of executives to adopt a "crisis as opportunity" mindset as well as the behavioral concomitants of their having done so. The analysis also includes a future research agenda, a consideration of some of the challenges in enacting that agenda, and a few suggested ways to overcome those challenges.

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Toward an Understanding of When Executives See Crisis as Opportunity

Brockner

James

2008

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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Applications of Positive Organizational Scholarship in Institutions of Higher Education

Cameron

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Education

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Positive organizational scholarship (POS) is the study of that which is positive, flourishing, and life-giving in organizations. It considers the processes and dynamics that occur in and through organizations, in contrast to a focus on individual attitudes and emotions. Positive organizational scholarship has rarely been investigated in institutions of higher education, and this chapter provides two case studies that illustrate its relevance in that setting. The chapter first provides a discussion of the unique characteristics of POS compared to, for example, positive psychology and other approaches to the positive, and it highlights the importance of positive organizational dynamics in accounting for high levels of performance in organizations. The chapter describes how these dynamics have been successfully applied within two institutions of higher education to benefit not only traditional markers of success such as student achievement and wellbeing, but also the collective performance of the overall institution. The specific practices that led to extraordinarily successful outcomes are discussed, and they provide evidence that, in addition to the effects of positive psychology on individuals—especially students—the outcomes of entire institutions can be substantially affected in positive directions by adopting positive practices.

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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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Positive Organizational Scholarship: What Does it Achieve?

Cited by 16 publications

References 81 publications

Toward an Understanding of When Executives See Crisis as Opportunity

Toward an Understanding of When Executives See Crisis as Opportunity

Applications of Positive Organizational Scholarship in Institutions of Higher Education

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

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