At-a-Glance Summaries

These summaries were built by Mary Ceccanese and Karen Dickinson for use in running workshops in conjunction with Voices of the Staff at the University of Michigan. The Center for POS is pleased to offer these summaries free of charge.

Building High Quality Connections

These summaries are based on Energize your Workplace (Dutton, 2003) and Trust is Everything (Mishra and Mishra, 2008).

Generational Diversity

This summary is based on an article by Professor Lynn Wooten:
Wooten, L. (2006). Charting a change course for effective diversity management. Human Factor, 1(2): 46-53.

Gratitude

This summary is based on research by Kim Cameron.

Leadership

These summaries are based on research conducted by Professor Kim Cameron and Professor Lynn Wooten.

To learn more about this topic, we suggest reading the following publications:

Wooten, L., & Cameron, K. (2010). Enablers of a positive strategy: Leadership & culture. In P.A. Linley, S. Harrington, & N. Garcea (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of positive psychology and work. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cameron, K., Quinn, R.E., DeGraff, J., & Thakor, A.V. (2007). Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Cameron, K.S., & Lavine, M. (2006). Making the impossible possible: Leading extraordinary performance - The Rocky Flats story. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.