A special issue of Organizational Dynamics, edited by Gretchen Spreitzer and Kim Cameron, answers these questions and more:
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 85-172 (April–June 2012)
Table of Contents (PDF)
Executive Summaries of Articles (PDF)
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The Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) is pleased to announce the 2012 Award for Best Paper in POS. The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding scholarship in POS and to encourage research in this growing field. The Award for Best Paper in POS was established in 2008, and is awarded biannually. The deadline for submissions for the 2012 Award is September 1, 2012. More information about the Award for Best Paper in POS, past recipients, and guidelines for the 2012 Award is available on the Award for Best Paper in POS page of the Center for POS website.
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How does Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) enrich and enliven how we think about and understand social change?
We invited 37 authors to engage this question in a new book called Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations (Routledge, 2012). The book unleashes new insights about how social change happens, showcasing in particular a richer portrait of the human processes and structures that facilitate and are created in social change, and a fuller spectrum of impacts arising from social change. The book zooms in on three social change domains—Environment and Sustainability, Health Care, and Poverty, and Low-Wage Work—where a positive lens is particularly useful for uncovering insights for theory and for practice. The book also has a special section dedicated to the topic of individual and collective change agents. Three core insights (among many) shine brightly from applying a positive perspective to social change and organizations: Continue reading
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At the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS), we are devoted to energizing and transforming organizations through research on the theory and practice of positive organizing and leadership. We are passionately dedicated to the development and dissemination of POS research.
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