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Center for POS Hosts Visiting Scholar Arne Carlsen
Arne Carlsen, PhD, is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (Center for POS) through June 2009 and greatly enjoys life in Ann Arbor with his wife and their two daughters. Arne’s stay at the Center for POS takes place through the project Idea Work, where perspectives from positive organizational scholarship figure centrally both in the research design and in trying to understand sources of the extraordinary in the confluence between creativity and human growth. Five firms are participating, and all are international leaders in their respective markets. Based on ongoing research with these organizations, Arne now writes about drivers of imagination in hydrocarbon exploration, how positive identity construction takes place in idea work, and what makes projects inspiring. Generativity in qualitative research and the phenomenology of wondering are two interests that have emerged while he has been at the Center for POS.
Arne is a Senior Scientist at SINTEF Technology and Management in Norway and is also doing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture. He has published in journals and books about knowledge management, professional service work, identity construction, hope, and positive organizational change. His work within the POS tradition borrows elements from practice theory, narrative psychology, and classical pragmatism.
More information on Arne is available on the Center for POS website at http://www.bus.umich.edu/Positive/POS-Research/Contributors/ArneCarlsen.htm.
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New York Times
Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?
The article notes, "with the economy in disarray and so many financial firms in free fall, analysts, and even educators themselves, are wondering if the way business students are taught may have contributed to the most serious economic crisis in decades" and describes the self-examination going on at a number of schools. And noteworthy from a POS standpoint, it goes on to say that "surveys of business students show that they are starting to focus more on social issues and ethics, and that this could intensify talk of making managers’ obligations to society more explicit." For more on this topic, please see our September 2008 Positive Links presentation,
The Harvard MBA Study: A transformational leader development experience? by Scott Snook of Harvard Business School.
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Center for POS Recognized with Award at Next Great Companies Summit
On November 12th, The Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s 2nd Annual Next Great Companies Summit honored the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (Center for POS) "for its enduring commitment and contributions to the Michigan's Next Great Companies Movement." Center co-director Lynn Wooten, Ph.D., accepted the award, on the behalf of the Center, from First Gentleman of Michigan Dan Mulhern. Mr. Mulhern had organized Michigan’s Next Great Companies program in 2007 as part of a greater economic initiative to teach developing companies how to sustain successful corporate cultures. This year, the University of Michigan’s Center for POS at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business helped host the Annual CEO Summit event at the University’s Palmer Commons. Professor Wooten also presented Auditing Your Corporate Culture and Making the Connection to Bottom Line Results at the conference.
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Center for POS teams with Executive Education to offer "Booster Shot" Workshops to the Community
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Faculty from across the University of Michigan presented six sessions packed with research-based tools and ideas for thriving in the economic downturn.
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