Books

Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer. (2012)

This handbook is the first major resource for scholars and professionals interested in learning about positive organizational scholarship (POS). Across 79 chapters, authors comprehensively review basic principles, empirical evidence, and ideas for future research relating to POS.
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Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

Edited by Karen Golden-Biddle and Jane E. Dutton (2012)

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).

Research Alive: Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research

Edited by Arne Carlsen and Jane Dutton (2011)

Research Alive offers insight into the doing of qualitative research by focusing on stories of moments that are experienced as generative. This illuminates what is life-giving, transformative, and expansive, both with regards to imagination of ideas and development of scholars in the process of doing research. The book offers a unique array of 40 stories from both new and established scholars.

Organizational Effectiveness

Kim Cameron (October 2010)

This comprehensive volume identifies the foundations and scholarly development of the construct of organizational effectiveness, charting its emergence and maturing in organizational studies literature.

Leading Under Pressure: From Surviving to Thriving Before, During, and After a Crisis

by Erika H. James and Lynn Perry Wooten. (2010)

At a macro level, there is the pressure of worldwide competition and the need to operate across the globe. At the micro level, there is pressure of individuals or departments to produce more with increasingly fewer resources. Pressure is at once the precipitator and the consequence of crisis. Leaders who can flourish under pressure will be the ones to guide us through these and future turbulent times.

Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation

By Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn. (2009)

Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and experience to demonstrate how we can elevate ourselves and the situations and people around us to greater heights of integrity, openness, and achievement-the psychological equivalent of aerodynamic lift.

Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

Edited by Laura Morgan Roberts and Jane E. Dutton. (2009)

This edited volume aims to forge new ground in identity research and organizations through a compilation of new frame-breaking chapters on positive identity written by leading identity scholars.

Positive Leadership

By Kim Cameron. (2008)

Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and "positively deviant performance" - performance far above the norm.

The Virtuous Organization: Insights from Some of the World's Leading Management Thinkers

Edited by Charles C. Manz, Kim S. Cameron, Karen P. Manz, Robert D. Marx, and Judi Neal (2008)

With interdisciplinary insights by many of the world s leading management thinkers, the book includes conceptual treatments, empirical research, and actual cases concerning virtuous behavior and leadership under conditions of crises, and ordinary and exemplary times.

Leading with Values: Positivity, Virtue, and High Performance

Edited by Edward D. Hess and Kim S. Cameron (2006)

Values-based leadership is based upon honesty, respect, trust, and dignity, and it regards every employee within a company as a valued human being. This book shows how leaders can create extraordinary outcomes without sacrificing performance and profits, by acting ethically and virtuously, and treating all stakeholders with respect and dignity.

Exploring Positive Relationships at Work: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

Edited by Jane Dutton and Belle Rose Ragins. (2006)

This edited volume brings together a select group of leading organizational scholars and offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how relationships at work become a source of growth, vitality, learning, and generative states of human and collective flourishing.

Making the Impossible Possible: Leading Extraordinary Performance--The Rocky Flats Story

By Kim Cameron and Marc Lavine. (2006)

Making the Impossible Possible reveals how breakthrough levels of performance can be achieved by any organization. Their example: the stunning success in the cleanup of Rocky Flats, one of the worst environmental disasters in the world.

Building the Bridge as You Walk on It: A Guide for Leading Change

By Robert E. Quinn. (2004)

Energize Your Workplace: How to Build and Sustain High-Quality Connections at Work

By Jane E. Dutton. (2003)

Jane E. Dutton provides three pathways for turning negative connections into positive ones that create and sustain employee resilience and flexibility, facilitate the speed and quality of learning, and build individual commitment and cooperation.

Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline

Edited by Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn. (2003)

An initiation into a new field of study in the organizational sciences.