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Publications

Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline initiates a new field of study in the organizational sciences.		In Building the Bridge as You Walk on It: A Guide for Leading Change, Bob Quinn explains how individuals implement deep organizational change by moving to what he calls "the fundamental state of leadership."
In Making the Impossible Possible, Kim Cameron and Marc Lavine reveal 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.		Edited by Jane Dutton and Belle Rose Ragins, Exploring Positive Relationships at Work: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation 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.
Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and "positively deviant performance" - performance far above the norm.

For information on publications by Center for POS core faculty, please click here for the Core Faculty and Staff page and follow links to each faculty member’s web page and vita. See below for a list of downloadable working papers by Center for POS core faculty, faculty associates, faculty affiliates, and POS graduate students.

Working Papers

Barker Caza, B., & Caza, A. (2005). Positive organizational scholarship: A critical theory perspective.

Brockner, J., Spreitzer, G., Mishra, A., Hochwater, W., Pepper, L., & Weinberg, J. (2005). Perceived control as an antidote to the negative effects of layoffs on survivors’ organizational commitment and job performance.

Cameron, K. (2005). Organizational effectiveness: its demise and re-emergence through positive organizational scholarship.

Cameron, K., & Caza, A. Developing strategies for responsible leadership.

Caza, A., Barker, B., & Cameron, K. (2005). Virtues and ethics: Values in organizations.

Caza, A., & Quinn, R. The essence of transformation: Entering the fundamental state of leadership.

Frost, P., Dutton, J.E., Maitlis, S., Lilius, J., Kanov, J., & Worline, M. (2004). Seeing organizations differently: Three lenses on compassion.

Gittell, J., Cameron, K., Lim, & S. (2005). Relationships, layoffs, and organizational resilience: Airline industry responses to september 11^th.

Powley, E.H., & Cameron, K. (2005). Organizational healing: Lived virtuousness amidst organizational crisis.

Sandelands, L. & Worline, M. (2006). Toward a unifying theory for positive organizational studies.

Spreitzer, G. (2005). Giving peace a change: Organizational leadership, employee voice, and sustainable peace.

Spreitzer, G.M., Lam, C.F., & Fritz, C. (2008). Engagement and human thriving: complementary perspectives on energy and connections to work.

Recently-published former Working Papers

Baker, W.E. & Dutton, J.E. (2007). Enabling positive social capital in organizations. In J.E. Dutton & B.R. Ragins (Eds.), Exploring positive relationships at work (pp. 325-246). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dutton, J., Lilius, J., & Kanov, J. (2007). The transformative potential of compassion at work. In S. Piderit, R. Fry, and D. Cooperrider (Eds.), New designs for transformative cooperation (pp. 107-126). Stanford University Press.

Bright, D., Cameron, K., & Caza, A. (2006). The amplifying and buffering effects of virtuousness in downsized organizations. Journal of Business Ethics, 64, 249-269.

Dutton, J.E., Glynn, M.A., & Spreitzer, G. (2006). Positive organizational scholarship. In J. Greenhaus and G. Callanan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of career development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dutton, J.E., Worline, M., Frost, P., & Lilius, J. (2006). Explaining compassion organizing. Administrative Science Quarterly, 51(1), 59-96.

Heaphy E., & Dutton, J.E. (2008). Positive social interactions and the human body at work: Linking organizations and physiology. Academy of Management Review, 33(1), 137-163.

Lilius, J., Worline, M., Maitlis, S., Kanov, J., Dutton, J., & Frost, P. (forthcoming). Contours of compassion at work. Journal Of Organizational Behavior, 29, 193-218.

Morgan Roberts, L., Dutton, J.E., Spreitzer, G.M., Heaphy, E.D., & Quinn, R.E. (2005). Composing the reflected best-self portrait: Building pathways for becoming extraordinary in work organizations. Academy of Management Review, 30(4), 712-736.

Quinn, R.E., & Spreitzer, G.M. (2006). Entering the fundamental state of leadership: A framework for the positive transformation of self and others. In R. Burke & C. Cooper. (Eds.), Inspiring leaders (pp. 67-83). Oxford, England: Routledge.

Rhee, S.Y, Dutton, J., & Bagozzi, R. (2006). Making sense of organizational actions in response to tragedy: Virtue frames, organizational identification and organizational attachment. Journal of Management, Religion and Spirituality, 3, (1-2).

Spreitzer, G.M. (2006). Empowerment. In S. Rogelberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of industrial and organizational psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Spreitzer, G.M., Coleman, M.S., & Gruber, D. (2006). Positive strategic leadership: Lessons from a university president. In R. Hooijberg, J. Hunt, K. Boal, & J. Antonakis (Eds.), Leadership in and of organizations (pp. 155-172). Elsevier.

Spreitzer, G.M., & Doneson, D. (2007). Musings on the past and future of employee empowerment. In T. Cummings (Ed.), Handbook of organizational development (Chapter 17). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Spreitzer, G., Sutcliffe, K., Dutton, J., Sonenshein, S. & Grant, A. (2005). A socially embedded model of thriving at work. Organization Science, 16(5), 537-549.

Spreitzer, G.M., & Sutcliffe, K. (2006). Thriving in organizations. In C. Cooper & D. Nelson (Eds.), Positive organizational behavior (pp. 74-85). Thousand Oaks: Sage.