By Center for POS
At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Jane Dutton of University of Michigan and Karen Golden-Biddle of Boston University hosted the professional development workshop, Teaching to Make a Difference: Nourishing Our Students (and Ourselves) Through Using a Positive Organizational Scholarship Perspective. Among the goals was the expansion of participants’ teaching repertoires through the sharing of POS-inspired topics and processes. Below are some of the materials the participants shared.
By Oana Branzei
Poverty. Conflict. Draught. Death. Hunger. Domestic Violence.
Not giving up.
Understanding how one summons and sustains hope in the face of scarcity and adversity stretches the straightjacket of organizational theories to make room for understanding life at its extremes—and reconnects us to the people living full and inspiring lives despite overcoming significant hurdles, every day. Continue reading →
By Elana Feldman, Kathy Kram, Emily Heaphy, and Stephanie Creary
By Elana Feldman, Kathy Kram, Emily Heaphy, and Stephanie Creary
What happens when a group of scholars interested in positive relationships at work meet in one place? They forge new connections, rejoice in old friendships, help each other tackle current challenges, and plant the seeds for future collaborations. And this was indeed the case in March, when approximately 30 researchers gathered in Ashland, Massachusetts, for the launch of the newly invigorated Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) Microcommunity. Continue reading →
By Karen Golden-Biddle & Jane Dutton
By Karen Golden-Biddle & Jane Dutton
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 →
By Shirli Kopelman
The negotiated journey toward a career with a heart is important to understand, because having such a career can yield not only long-term love for what one does, but a host of beneficial outcomes for individuals and organizations.
Having a career with a heart means experiencing more than mere job satisfaction; indeed it means feeling enduring love and passion for one’s work. This pursuit is possible in any profession and occupation at every point along the career path. Continue reading →
