Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations
Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations

Author: Karen Golden-Biddle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1136486550

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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.

How to Be a Positive Leader
How to Be a Positive Leader

Author: Jane E. Dutton

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2014-06-02

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1626560293

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"The field of positive leadership continues to expand. Building on the practical tools and philosophy in Kim Cameron's books (including Positive Leadership, over 30,000 copies sold), this edited volume brings the best research from fourteen scholars and translates it into plain English for organizations"--

Positive Organizational Scholarship
Positive Organizational Scholarship

Author: Kim Cameron

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2003-08-09

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1576759660

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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

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 1105

ISBN-13: 0199989958

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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.

Positive Organizing in a Global Society
Positive Organizing in a Global Society

Author: Laura Morgan Roberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-16

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1317745124

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This book unites the latest research in diversity, inclusion, and positive organizational scholarship (POS), to investigate diversity and inclusion dynamics in social systems. Comprised of succinct chapters from thought leaders in the field, this book covers both micro- and macro-levels of analysis, covering topics such as authenticity, mentorship, intersectional identity work, positive deviance, resilience, resource cultivation and utilization, boundary-spanning leadership, strengths-based development, positive workplace interventions to promote well-being, inclusive strategic planning, and the role of diversity in innovation.

Research in Organizational Change and Development
Research in Organizational Change and Development

Author: Abraham B. (Rami) Shani

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1789735556

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Volume 27 continues the diversity and inclusivity of the Research in Organizational Change and Development series through insightful, thought provoking chapters with new conceptual insights and robust empirical studies. This volume includes contributions from Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom and United States.

Managing Inter-Organizational Collaborations
Managing Inter-Organizational Collaborations

Author: Jörg Sydow

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-10-04

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1787565912

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This volume contains two Open Access chapters. Volume 64 of Research in the Sociology of Organizations takes stock of research on processes of inter-organizational collaboration and explores new topics that call for inquiry.

Organizational Hybridity
Organizational Hybridity

Author: Marya Besharov

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1839093560

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This book contains Open Access chapters This volume integrates and redirects research on organizational hybridity, the mixing of logics, forms, and identities that do not conventionally go together. It sets a foundation for continued analytical rigor and real-world relevance.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture
The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture

Author: Karen M. Barbera

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-05-07

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 0199860726

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The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture presents the breadth of topics from Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior through the lenses of organizational climate and culture. The Handbook reveals in great detail how in both research and practice climate and culture reciprocally influence each other. The details reveal the many practices that organizations use to acquire, develop, manage, motivate, lead, and treat employees both at home and in the multinational settings that characterize contemporary organizations. Chapter authors are both expert in their fields of research and also represent current climate and culture practice in five national and international companies (3M, McDonald's, the Mayo Clinic, PepsiCo and Tata). In addition, new approaches to the collection and analysis of climate and culture data are presented as well as new thinking about organizational change from an integrated climate and culture paradigm. No other compendium integrates climate and culture thinking like this Handbook does and no other compendium presents both an up-to-date review of the theory and research on the many facets of climate and culture as well as contemporary practice. The Handbook takes a climate and culture vantage point on micro approaches to human issues at work (recruitment and hiring, training and performance management, motivation and fairness) as well as organizational processes (teams, leadership, careers, communication), and it also explicates the fact that these are lodged within firms that function in larger national and international contexts.