Publications and Papers

Books


More information on publications by Center for POS core faculty is available on their individual websites, accessible from the People page.



Coming in 2011

 Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship Edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer. (in press)
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Coming in 2012

 Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation edited by Karen Golden-Biddle and Jane E. Dutton. (in press)


Organizational Effectiveness by Kim Cameron (October 2010)

This comprehensive volume identifies the foundations and scholarly development of the construct of organizational effectiveness, charting its emergence and maturing in organizational studies literature.

Leading Under Pressure: From Surviving to Thriving Before, During, and After a Crisis by Erika H. James and Lynn Perry Wooten. (2010)

At a macro level, there is the pressure of worldwide competition and the need to operate across the globe. At the micro level, there is pressure of individuals or departments to produce more with increasingly fewer resources. Pressure is at once the precipitator and the consequence of crisis. Leaders who can flourish under pressure will be the ones to guide us through these and future turbulent times.

Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation by Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn. (2009)

Ryan and Robert 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.

Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation edited by Laura Morgan Roberts and Jane E. Dutton. (2009)

This edited 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.

Positive Leadership by Kim Cameron. (2008)

Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and "positively deviant performance" - performance far above the norm.

Exploring Positive Relationships at Work: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation edited by Jane Dutton and Belle Rose Ragins. (2006)

This edited volume brings together a select group of leading organizational scholars and offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how relationships at work become a source of growth, vitality, learning, and generative states of human and collective flourishing.

In Making the Impossible Possible: Leading Extraordinary Performance--The Rocky Flats Story by Kim Cameron and Marc Lavine. (2006)

Making the Impossible Possible reveals how breakthrough levels of performance can be achieved by any organization. Their example: the stunning success in the cleanup of Rocky Flats, one of the worst environmental disasters in the world.


Building the Bridge as You Walk on It: A Guide for Leading Change by Robert E. Quinn. (2004)

Bob Quinn explains how individuals implement deep organizational change by moving to what he calls "the fundamental state of leadership."


Energize Your Workplace: How to Build and Sustain High-Quality Connections at Work by Jane E. Dutton. (2003)

Jane E. Dutton provides three pathways for turning negative connections into positive ones that create and sustain employee resilience and flexibility, facilitate the speed and quality of learning, and build individual commitment and cooperation.


Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline edited by Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn. (2003)

An initiation into a new field of study in the organizational sciences.