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

Happiness and Its Causes - Sydney, Australia, May 14-15, 2009	4th European Conference on Positive Psychology - Opatija, Croatia, July 1-4, 2008	Call for papers - Special issue on Positive Organizational Scholarship - Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. Submission deadline: October 1, 2008
Call for Papers - JOB special issue on job design. Submission deadline: July 15, 2008	More Upcoming POS-Related Conferences	POS-related sessions at Academy of Management Annual Meeting - August 2007

Special Issue on Positive Organizing. J Pos Psych, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008.	Forthcoming in 2009 - The Center for POS recently hosted a book-building conference for Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation.	Special Issue on Positive Organizational Change - J Appl Behav Sci, Vol 44, No. 1, March 2008.
Special Issue on Contexts of Positive Organizational Behavior. J Organ Behav, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2008.	NEW! Introducing the theory-to-practice briefing . This new tool developed by the Center for POS is useful for future or present managers. Our first offering is What is Job Crafting and Why Does It Matter?	New - The Heart of Reuters teaching case teaching note and DVD.
Special Issue on Positive Organization Practices - OD Practitioner Vol 39, No. 1, 2007.

Center for POS announces new $5000 research award for the best published scholarly article in POS. Deadline: September 1, 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