Teaching With a POS Lens

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.

The Business School (MBA) Apprentice

• The Business School Apprentice: A New Form of Experiential Learning
  Adam M. Grant, University of Pennsylvania

Embodying What We Advocate

• Good Teacher, Great Teacher: How to Embody What We Advocate
  Robert E. Quinn, University of Michigan

Energy Management for Full Student Engagement: the Energy Audit

• Energy Audit - Awareness and Action
  Traci Grant and Gretchen Spreitzer, University of Michigan
• Energy Intervention Worksheet
  Gretchen Spreitzer, University of Michigan
• Helping Students Manage Their Energy: Taking Their Pulse with the Energy Audit
  Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Traci Grant, Journal of Management Education, December 2011

Job Crafting in Action

• Job Crafting Exercise
  Amy Wrzesniewski, Yale University, discussed the Job Crafting Exercise, available for purchase on our website on the Job Crafting Exercise page.

Leading for Impact

• Leading for Impact. Notes for teaching an MBA elective.
  Shelley Brickson, University of Illinois at Chicago

A Positive Lens on Sustainability

• A Positive Lens on Sustainability through a Systems Approach
  Jennifer Howard-Grenville, University of Oregon

Teaching About Positive Relationships

• Teaching to Make a Difference: Nourishing Our Students (and Ourselves) Through Using a Positive Organizational Scholarship Perspective.
  Jane Dutton, University of Michigan, and Karen Golden-Biddle, Boston University
• Building High Quality Connections at Lightning Speed
  Jane Dutton, University of Michigan
• Teaching about Positive Relationships
  Jane Dutton, University of Michigan

Teaching Leadership in a Relational Context

• Teaching Leadership in a Relational Context: Using Action Learning Teams and Projects
  Kathy E. Kram, Boston University School of Management

"Seeding" POS

• "Seeding" POS in an Undergraduate Capstone Course
  Lynn Perry Wooten, University of Michigan

Surfacing Positive Energy

• Surfacing positive (and negative!) energy of units or organizations and developing leadership interventions
  Bernd Vogel, University of Reading

What Can We Teach the Social Change Agent?

• Overview of Oana Branzei's presentation and a list of resources
  Oana Branzei, The University of Western Ontario
• Materials on Social Entrepreneur Craig Kielburger
• Craig Kielburger cases
  Mary M. Cross and Mark Reno, The University of Western Ontario
  A six-part video case series featuring social entrepreneur Craig Kielburger as he faces pivotal moments in his life and the remarkable evolution of his organization.
• Page one of the background case A Movement is Born.
• Page one of each of the remaining five cases.
• Craig Kielburger video
  Social entrepreneur Craig Kielburger describes how he has created and scaled multiple global movements for social change.
• Sample frameworks and syllabi for teaching the social change agent
• Sustainability in Action
  Oana Branzei, The University of Western Ontario
• Social Enterprise
  Oana Branzei, The University of Western Ontario
• Social Innovation
  Oana Branzei, The University of Western Ontario
• Sustainability Certificate
  The University of Western Ontario
  This is a full-fledged program with many other resources, from course descriptions to class-by-class plans.

Virtuous Downsizing

• Virtuous Downsizing
  Scott Sonenshein, Rice University