Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship

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The Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship is committed to advancing research in the emerging field of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). This Web site is both a medium of communication for the Center for POS, and a learning and networking community for POS scholars and practitioners worldwide. We also welcome anyone who is interested in learning about this emerging field. For more information or to contribute to our community, please contact positiveorg@umich.edu.

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Monthly Speaker Series

Publications and
Working Papers

Work, Learn, and Contribute	Recent Books, Special Issues, and Tools	Other Highlights

The Power of Compassion - 4th Annual International Conference on Engaging the Other. San Francisco, CA, November 12-15, 2009.	Magnetic Forces of POS - The Center for POS hosted its fourth biennial conference December 4-6 in Ann Arbor.	POS-relevant Sessions at Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2009 Nearly 60 sessions will touch on POS themes.
Booster Shot Workshops Providing ideas, tools, and practices that cultivate strength and resources. Center for POS and Ross Executive Education, Ann Arbor, MI, Summer 2009	2009 World Appreciative Inquiry Conference Creating a Positive Revolution for Sustainable Change, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 16-19, 2009.	Video - spend a few moments with the faculty and some past participants in the Ross School Executive Education Positive Leadership programs.
$3 Million RFP on the Science of Generosity by the University of Notre Dame. Seeking proposals for research on generosity in the human and social sciences. Deadline for letters of inquiry for second wave of funding: September 1, 2009.	Job Opening - Postdoctoral Fellow in Positive Health. The Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with Harvard, and the University of Michigan seeks an outstanding individual for a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellow position to begin immediately.
More Upcoming POS-Related Conferences

NEW BOOK - Lift - Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation. Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn combine research and experience to demonstrate how we can elevate ourselves and the situations and people around us to greater heights of integrity, openness, and achievement—the psychological equivalent of aerodynamic lift.	NEW BOOK - Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation - edited by Laura Morgan Roberts and Jane E. Dutton. This volume aims to forge new ground in identity research and organizations through a compilation of new frame-breaking chapters on positive identity written by leading identity scholars. Available May 2009.	New DVD - A companion DVD for the teaching case Anne Ladky: An Energy Approach to Leadership, featuring an interview with Anne Ladky, is now available for purchase.
Special Issue on the Positive Agenda. JOB, Forthcoming in December. Table of Contents	Special Issue on Contexts of Positive Organizational Behavior. J Organ Behav, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2008.	NEW - Job Crafting Suite of Products: Job Crafting Exercise Crafting a Fulfilling Job: Bringing Passion Into Work (teaching case) Job Crafting at Burt's Bees (teaching case) What is Job Crafting and Why Does It Matter? (theory-to-practice briefing)
Review of Exploring Positive Relationships at Work: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation (Jane E. Dutton & Belle Rose Ragins, eds.) in Admin Sci Quart, Vol 53, No. 1, 2008.	Special Issue on Positive Organizing. J Pos Psych, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008.	New book from Kim Cameron - Positive Leadership. Berrett-Koehler 2008.

NEW RESEARCH CENTER - the Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education is based at Stanford University and is dedicated to gaining a deep understanding of compassion and its associated human behaviors.	NEW FEATURE - Community Scholars interactive map: see where POS scholars are located world wide	New Listing on Related Not-for-Profit Organizations page: - Positive Deviance Initiative
Kim Cameron on corporate virtuousness and its relationship to corporate success - Voice America Business radio show	The Center for POS is happy to announce the winners of the first bi-annual $5,000 Award for Best Paper in Positive Organizational Scholarship. Adam Grant and Ingrid Nembhard accepted on behalf of the authors of their respective papers at the Magnetic Forces of POS conference in Ann Arbor on December 5, 2008.	Positive Words Still Work the Best - Interview with Gretchen Spreitzer on the RBS Exercise in the Australian Financial Review, Mar 11 2008
How Business Can Save the World - Boston Globe article on study by Center for POS's Gretchen Spreitzer, which compares detailed measures of employee workplace empowerment with broader measures about the quality of civic life.	Center for POS - The First Five Years 2002-2007 - Our first retrospective report - A brief slide show