The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship by Kim S. Cameron,Gretchen M. Spreitzer

By Kim S. Cameron,Gretchen M. Spreitzer

optimistic Organizational Scholarship (POS) is an umbrella inspiration used to stress what elevates and what's inspiring to members and corporations by way of defining and bettering at the hard, damaged, and needlessly tricky. simply as confident psychology explores optimum person mental states instead of pathological ones, POS focuses cognizance at the generative dynamics in companies that bring about the advance of human power, foster resiliency in staff, permit therapeutic and recovery, and domesticate notable person and organizational functionality. whereas POS doesn't forget about dysfunctional or common styles of habit, it truly is so much attracted to the motivations and results linked to remarkably confident phenomena--how they're facilitated, why they paintings, how they are often pointed out, and the way corporations can capitalize on them.

This instruction manual is the 1st significant source for students and pros attracted to studying approximately POS. throughout seventy nine chapters, authors comprehensively evaluate easy rules, empirical facts, and concepts for destiny learn in relation to POS. They specialise in utilizing a favorable lens to handle difficulties and demanding situations in organizational existence they usually draw on POS to extend the area of alternative disciplines together with ethics, economics, peace, spirituality, social events, and sustainability. This quantity is a perfect source for organizational students, scholars, practitioners, human source managers, institutions, with assurance of the whole spectrum of organizational theories and results that outline, clarify, and are expecting the incidence, motives, and outcomes of positivity.

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