Handbook of POS

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Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship. Edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures
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Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

1
Introduction
What is Positive about Positive Organizational Scholarship?
Kim C. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer

PART I POSITIVE INDIVIDUAL ATTRIBUTES

2
Psychological Capital
Psychological Capital: Meaning, Findings, and Future Directions
Carolyn M. Youssef and Fred Luthans

3
Prosocial Motivation
Prosocial motivation at work: When, When, Why and How Making a Difference Makes a Difference?
Adam M. Grant and Justin M. Berg

4
Callings in Work
Callings
Amy Wrzesniewski

5
Work Engagement
Being There: Work Engagement and Positive Organizational Scholarship
Nancy P. Rothbard and Shefali V. Patil

6
Positive Identity
Positive Identity Construction: Insights from Classical and Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
Laura Morgan Roberts and Stephanie J. Creary

7
Proactivity
Proactivity in the Workplace: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Chiahuei Wu and Sharon K. Parker

8
Creativity
Striving for Creativity: Building Positive Contexts in the Workplace
Jing Zhou and Run Ren

9
Curiosity
Organizing the Cat? Generative Aspects of Curiosity in Organizational Life
Spencer Harrison

10
Positive Traits
Some Traits Associated with Flourishing at Work
Joyce E. Bono, Stacy E. Davies and Rena L. Rasch

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The Neuroscience Underpinning of POS
Exploring the Minds of Managers: Insights from Three Neuroscience Studies
Richard P. Bagozzi and Willem Verbeke

PART II POSITIVE EMOTIONS

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Positive Energy
Human Energy in Organizations: Implications for POS From Six Interdisciplinary Streams
Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Chak Fu Lam and Ryan W. Quinn

13
Positive Emotions
Positive emotions: Broadening and Building Upward Spirals of Sustainable Enterprises
Leslie E. Sekerka, Tanya Vacharkulksemsuk and Barbara L. Fredrickson

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Subjective Well-being
Subjective Well-being in Organizations
Arnold B. Bakker and Wido G.M. Oerlemans

15
Passion
Passion
Kimberly H. Perttula and Melissa S. Cardon

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Emotional Intelligence
Social Context and the Psychology of Emotional Intelligence: A Key to Creating Positive Organizations
Oscar Ybarra, Laura Rees, Ethan Kross, and Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks

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Group Emotions
Shared Positive Affect in Workgroups
Seung-Yong Rhee and Hye Jeong Yoon

PART III STRENGTHS AND VIRTUES

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Virtuousness
Virtuousness in Organizations
Kim S. Cameron and Bradley Winn

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Forgiveness
Forgiveness at Four Levels: Intrapersonal, Relational, Organizational, and Collective-Group
David S. Bright and Julie J. Exline

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Humility
Exploring the Relevance and Implications of Humility in Organizations
Bradley P. Owens, Wade C. Rowatt, and Alan L. Wilkins

21
Compassion
Compassion Revealed: What We Know About Compassion at Work (and Where We Need to Know More)
Jacoba M. Lilius, Jason Kanov, Jane E. Dutton, Monica Worline, and Sally Maitlis

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Hope
Imagining Hope in Organizations: From Individual Goal-Attainment to Horizons of Relational Possibility
Arne Carlsen, Aina Landsverk Hagen and Tord F. Mortensen

23
Courage
Courage in Organizations: An Integrative Review of the “Difficult Virtue”
Monica C. Worline

24
Justice
A Positive Lens on Organizational Justice: Toward a Moral, Constructive, and Balanced Approach to Reactions
to Third-Party (In)Justice
David M. Mayer

25
Integrity
Research on Behavioral Integrity: A Promising Construct for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Tony Simons, Edward C. Tomlinson and Hannes Leroy

26
Positive Ethics
Positive Business Ethics: Grounding and Elaborating a Theory of Good Works
Jason M. Stansbury and Scott Sonenshein

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Leveraging Strengths
Productivity through Strength
Jim Asplund and Nikki Blacksmith

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Character Strengths in Global Managers
The Positive Power of Character Strengths and Virtues for Global Leaders
Armenio Rego, Stewart Clegg and Miguel Pinha e Cunha

PART IV POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS

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High Quality Connections
High Quality Connections
John Paul Stephens, Emily Heaphy and Jane E. Dutton

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Relational Coordination
New Directions for Relational Coordination Theory
Jody Hoffer Gittell

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Reciprocity
A Dual Model of Reciprocity in Organizations: Moral Sentiments and Reputation
Wayne Baker

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Intimacy
Workplace Intimacy in Leader-Follower Relationships
Ronit Kark

33
Civility
Civility
Christine L. Porath

34
Trust
POS and Trust in Leaders
Aneil K. Mishra and Karen E. Mishra

35
Trustworthiness
Perspective Taking: Building Positive Interpersonal Connections and Trustworthiness One Interaction at a
Time
Michele Williams

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Humor
The Laughter Advantage: Cultivating High Quality Connections and Workplace Outcomes Through Humor
Cecily D. Cooper and John Sosik

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Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety: A Foundation for Speaking Up, Collaboration, and Experimentation in Organizations
Ingrid M. Nembhard and Amy C. Edmondson

PART V POSITIVE HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES

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Career Development
Personal Growth Through Career Work: A Positive Approach to Careers
Douglas T. Hall and Mireia Las Heras

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Mentoring
Relational Mentoring: A Positive Approach to Mentoring at Work
Belle Rose Ragins

40
Socialization
Socialization Perspectives and Positive Organizational Scholarship
Blake E. Ashforth, Karen K. Myers and David M. Sluss

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Diversity

A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations
Lakshmi Ramarajan and David Thomas

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Communication
The Role of Communication in Positive Organizational Scholarship
Larry D. Browning, G.H. Morris and Kerk F. Kee

43
Conflict Resolution
Parallel and Divergent Predictors of Objective and Subjective Value in Negotiation
Jared R. Curhan and Ashley D. Brown

44
Negotiating
The Mindful Negotiator: Strategic Emotion Management and Wellbeing
Shirli Kopelman, Orli Avi-Yonah and Akshaya K. Varghese

45
Work-Family Dynamics
Positive Work-Family Dynamics
Jessica Keeney and Remus Ilies

PART VI POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES

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Symbolism in Organizations
The Generative Potency of Organizational Symbols: Implications for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Mary Ann Glynn and Lee Watkiss

47
Resourcefulness
Resources, Resourcing, and Ampliative Cycles in Organizations
Martha Feldman and Monica Worline

48
Collective Efficacy
Collective Efficacy Beliefs, Organizational Excellence, and Leadership
Roger D. Goddard and Serena J. Salloum

49
The Design of Work
The Design of Jobs: A Strategy for Enhancing the Positive Outcomes of Individuals at Work
Greg R. Oldham

50
Mindful Organizing
Mindful Organizing: Establishing and Extending the Foundations of Highly Reliable Performance
Timothy J. Vogus

51
Organizational Identity
The Defining Role of Organizational Identity for Facilitating Stakeholder Flourishing: A Map for Future
Research
Celia V. Harquail and Shelley L. Brickson

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Organizational Energy
Organizational Energy
Bernd Vogel and Heike Bruch

53
Innovation
Innovativeness as Positive Deviance: Identifying and Operationalizing the Attributes, Functions and Dynamics
that Create Growth
Jeff DeGraff and Dan Nathan-Roberts

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Organizational Boundaries
Margins, Membership, and Mobility: Re-defining Boundaries in Collaborative Endeavors
Rebekah Dibble and Cristina B. Gibson

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Positive Deviance
Positive Deviance: A Metaphor and Method for Learning from the Uncommon
Marc Lavine

PART VII POSITIVE LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE

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Organizational Development
The Spirits of Organization Development or Why OD Lives Despite Its Pronounced Death
Jean M. Bartunek and Richard W. Woodman

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Appreciative Inquiry
Positive Organizational Development: Innovation-Inspired Change in an Economy and Ecology of Strengths
David L. Cooperrider and Lindsey N. Godwin

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Positive Change Attributes
Seeing and Acting Differently: Positive Change in Organizations
Robert E. Quinn and Ned Wellman

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Implementing Positive Change
What Makes an Organizational Change Process Positive?
Karen Golden-Biddle and Jina Mao

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Authentic Leadership
Advances in Theory and Research on Authentic Leadership
Bruce J. Avolio and Ketan Mhatre

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Leadership Development
Toward a Positive and Dynamic Theory of Leadership Development
D. Scott DeRue and Kristina M. Workman

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Peak Performance

Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design and Senior Leadership to Enable Strategic Paradox
Wendy K. Smith, Marianne W. Lewis and Michael L. Tushman,

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Strategic Change
Emotions and Strategic Change
Quy Nguyen Huy

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Strengths-Based Strategy
Positive Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Strengths-Based Strategy That SOARs and Performs
Jacqueline M. Stavros and Lynn Perry Wooten

PART VIII A POSITIVE LENS ON PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES

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Managing the Unexpected
Managing the Unexpected
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Marlys K. Christianson

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Healing After Trauma
Organizational Healing: A Relational Process to Handle Major Disruption
Edward H. Powley

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Organizational Recovery
Recovery: Non-Work Experiences that Promote Positive States
Sabine Sonnentag, Cornelia Niessen and Angela Neff

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Responding to Crisis
Orientations of Positive Leadership in Times of Crisis
Erika Hayes James and Lynn Perry Wooten

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Resilience Under Adversity
Resilience at Work: Building Capability in the Face of Adversity
Brianna Barker Caza and Laurie P. Milton

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Post-traumatic Growth
Post-traumatic growth: A Missed Opportunity for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Sally Maitlis

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Ambivalence
Just a Good Place to Visit? Exploring Positive Responses to Psychological Ambivalence
Michael G. Pratt and Camille Pradies

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Responding to Stress
Stress Interventions versus Positive Interventions: Apples and Oranges?
Caroline Biron and Cary L. Cooper with Philip Gibbs

PART IX EXPANDING POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP

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Sustainability
Positive Deviance for a Sustainable World: Linking Sustainability and Positive Organizational Scholarship
Andrew J. Hoffman and Nardia Haigh

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Critical Theory
Critical Studies and POS
Arran Caza and Brigid Carroll

75
Economic Models
Strange Bedfellows: Homo Economicus and Positive Organization Scholarship
Paul C. Godfrey

76
Social Movements
Social Movements in Organizations
Debra Guckenheimer

77
Spirituality
In God We Trust: A Comparison of Spiritualities at Work
Lloyd E. Sandelands

78
International Peacemaking
Five Steps Toward Peace Making: Using Positive Organizational Scholarship to Build a Better World
J. B. Ritchie and Scott C. Hammond

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Conclusion
A Path Forward: Assessing Progress and Exploring Core Questions for the Future of Positive Organizational
Scholarship
Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Kim C. Cameron