dmay sundberg positive org scholarship final
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Douglas May/Jonathan Sundberg
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WHAT is Positive Organizational
Scholarship?
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A blend of theories Core of ideas developed in parallel to the Positive
Psychology Movementinitiated in 1998 Shift focus from mental illness to mental health
POS broadens focus Examines thriving and generative dynamics within
organizations
Also provides theoretical grounding for organizationaldevelopment
Appreciative Inquiry
Tap into the existing strengths of an organization and tofigure out how to perpetuate them on a broader level
Exploit employee strengths rather than dwell onlimitations
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Positive Seeks to understand positive states
Resilience
Meaningfulness
Gratitude Excellence
Virtue
Strength
Reflectedbest self
the time when employees were attheir personal best
Understand how to exploit strengths
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Organizational
Highlights how generative dynamics unfold withinand across organizations
Understand, explain, and predict the occurrence,causes, and consequences of positivity Finding the positive example:
Determining success through corporate downsizing asopposed to focusing on the negatives
Fostering employeecalling
instead of focusing solely onproductivity or morale
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Scholarship
Emphasizes theoretically-informed conclusions,backed by data and analysis
Results suggest implications for organizationalfunctioning, practice, and teaching
Uncovers new ways of interpreting antecedents andoutcomes of career development
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The POS Perspective First Same factors that create problem states arent
necessarily same ones that create positively deviant
state(above normal, extraordinary states that are
good, honorable or virtuous)
Promoting positive deviance may require new oraltered theoretical lens or explanation focus in
different areas
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The POS Perspective Second
POS - re-emphasizes the importance of outcomes such aswell-being, citizenship, and health
POS - focuses on the positive in analyzing organizationalconditions that account for valued human virtues andstrengths: Resilience Vitality Thriving Fulfillment Transcendence Courage Wisdom
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The POS Perspective Third Organizational scholars benefit from considering how,
why, and when positive states shape individual, group,
and collective behavior
POS lens considers how life-giving dynamics inorganizations (positive emotion, positive meaning, andpositive connections) can contribute to the overall
well-being of individuals, groups, and leaders
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The POS Perspective Fourth POS emphasis is on positive states and dynamics as a
corrective way to offset the tendency to focus on the
negative more than the positive
We are more deeply concerned about losing$50 thangaining$50...RIGHT??
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The POS Perspective
Amplify the Positive!!
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Domains of POS Inquiry
One Involves virtuous processes, strengths, and positive
organizing: Works on individual and organizational virtues,
integrity, compassion, resilience, wisdom, strength,and positive identity
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Domains of POS Inquiry
Two The study of upward spiralsand patterns of positive
change Includes work on appreciative inquiry, positive deviance,
positive emotions, knowledge creation, and positiveleadership development
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Domains of POS Inquiry
Three Focus on positive meanings and connections
Includes work on the dynamics of vitality and energy inorganizations, relationships, cooperation, and creativity
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Domains of POS Inquiry
Four Focus on institutional and structural aspect of POS
Includes work on developing and reproducingorganizational designs that enable positive dynamics andoutcomes
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New frontiers for Career Development
Opens up possibilities for career research by posinginnovative questions that redirect and motivatestudies Invites researchers to consider dynamics of positively
deviant career-relevant outcomes
Redirects attention to focus on peoples capacity forgrowth and resiliency, discovering new or unexploredcareer possibilities
Encourages ways to have positive rebounds aftercareer calamities and promotes creative careerredirections
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POS Approach
Can shift our view of career development inorganizations
Career choices of individuals are re-directed towardsbuilding humancapital
Creates environment that encourages
the best of the
human condition
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Question What does the acronym POSstandfor (no not that!)
Answer Positive Organizational Scholarship
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Question Define Positive OrganizationalScholarship?
Answer POS is concerned primarily with the studyof especially positive outcomes, processes, andattributes of organizations and their members. POS does not represent a single theory, but it focuses on
dynamics such as: excellence, thriving, flourishing,abundance, resilience, or virtuousness.
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True or False Positive Organizational Scholarshiprejects the view that organizations are typified bygreed, selfishness, manipulation, secrecy, and asingle-minded focus on winning.
Answer False. It does not reject the view, ratherit chooses to emphasize positive deviance
instead.
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Question: What concept does positiverepresentin the label PositiveOrganizational Scholarship(POS)?
Answer The positiveconcept emphasizesaffirmation, resilience, excellence, gratitude, etc.
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Question: What concept does organizationalrepresent in the label Positive OrganizationalScholarship (POS)?
Answer The Organizationalconcept focuses onpositive processes that occur in anorganizational context.
It highlights how these positive dynamics unfoldwithin organizations.
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Question: What concept does scholarshiprepresent in the label Positive OrganizationalScholarship(POS)?
Answer The scholarshipconcept focuses onempirical credibility and theoretical explanationsfor how and why the prescriptions work.
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True or False Positive Organizational Scholarshipis distinguished from traditional organizationalstudies in that it seeks to understand what
represents the best of the human condition.
Answer True
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Question What is one advantage to a PositiveOrganizational Scholarship Perspective?
Answers Include: Fresh perspective
Building the best self(instead of countering the worst)
Developing capabilities rather than simplycompensating for shortcomings
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Question An interest in positive phenomena is not uniquewithin social sciences. Name one other literature/traditionthat examines positive dynamics (example PositivePsychology).
Answers Include Appreciative Inquiry
Community Psychology
Humanistic Organizational Behavior
Organizational Development Prosocial Motivation
Citizenship Behavior
Corporate Social Responsibility
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True of False The Positive OrganizationalScholarship perspective is a relatively newperspective.
True: The POS perspective is relatively new,although its core ideas were seeded by the ideasof earlier scholars.
POS origins developed in parallel though a few yearsbehind the Positive Psychology movement, initiated in1998.
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Video Clip of Positive OrganizationalScholarship:
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Positive Organizational Scholarship: Meet theMovement Susan D. Bernstein, Jane Dutton and Robert Quinn
http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/janedut/POS/Pos%20Organ%20Scholar.pdf
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Positive Organizational Scholarship
References
Cameron, K., Dutton, J., Quinn, R., (2003) Positive OrganizationalScholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Dutton, J., Glynn, M.A., Spreitzer, G., (2013) PositiveOrganizational Scholarship,Encyclopedia for Career Development,Sage Publications
Robbins, S.P., Judge, T.A. (2013) Organizational Behavior(15thEdition)