Activities
Award for Best Paper in Positive Organizational Scholarship
The Center for POS launched this biannual award in 2008 to recognize outstanding scholarship in
positive organizational scholarship and to encourage research.
The award carries a $5,000 (USD) prize plus paid expenses to the bi-annual Conference on
Positive Organizational Scholarship hosted by the Center for POS in Ann Arbor, MI, where the recipient
gives an invited talk at the conference, based on the article that wins the award.
2010 Award
Information about applying for the 2012 Award will be available by early 2012
Previous Awards
2008 Award - shared by two papers
Grant, A. M., Campbell, E. M., Chen, G., Cottone, K., Lapedis, D., & Lee, K. (2007).
Impact and the art of
motivation maintenance: The effects of contact with beneficiaries on persistence behavior.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 103, 53–67.
Adam M. Grant, Assistant Professor,
University of North Carolina
Nembhard, Ingrid M. and Edmondson, Amy C. (2006).
Making it safe: The effects of leader inclusiveness and professional status on psychological safety and improvement
efforts in health care teams. J. Organiz. Behav. 27, 941–966.
Ingrid Nembhard, Assistant Professor,
Yale University
