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Expert Meeting: The “Big Two” Content Dimensions in Social Cognition and Behavior. Sponsored by ESCON and DFG. Neuendettelsau, Germany, October 13-16, 2010
Aspen Institute 2010 Business & Society International MBA Case Competition - The Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, placed first. Students from 25 leading business schools worldwide competed for recognition and $40,000 in prize money by exploring the significant and positive influence that business can have on society.
Kim Cameron - Positive Leaders in Leadership Excellence, March 2010.
Community Workshops - Center for POS and Executive Education teamed up on "Booster Shot" Summer 2009 Workshops
Visiting Scholar - The Center for POS hosts Arne Carlsen
2010 Templeton Positive Neuroscience Awards - Award-winning researchers to explore human flourishing from neural networks to social networks. The Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania (www.posneuroscience.org) and the John Templeton Foundation (www.templeton.org) -have announced the recipients of the 2010 Templeton Positive Neuroscience Awards, $2.9 million given to 15 new research projects at the intersection of Neuroscience and Positive Psychology.
We Commit When We Give - excerpt from Academy of Management Journal article by Adam Grant, Jane Dutton, and Brent Rosso posted on Stanford GSB News website.
Unleasing Positivity in the Workplace - ASTD publication T&D features an article on positive organizational scholarship in their January 2010 issue. Podcast
Compassion Across the Work Cubicles - Jane Dutton's research featured on NationalPost.com
New Research Center – The Center for Compassion & Altruism Research, based at Stanford University, is dedicated to gaining a deep understanding of compassion and its associated human behaviors.
Kim Cameron on corporate virtuousness and its relationship to corporate success (audio) on VoiceAmerica Talk Radio.
2009 POS Summer Fellows: Reflections of Participants in the Inaugural Program
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.
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.
Business Week
How Positive Psychology Can Boost Your Business
Center for POS Recognized with Award at Next Great Companies Summit
On November 12, 2008, 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.
Kim Cameron Receives Honorable Mention for 2006 Douglas McGregor Memorial Award
Kim Cameron of the Center for POS, along with Jody Hoffer Gittell, Sandy Lim, and Victor Rivas, received an Honorable Mention for the 2006 Douglas McGregor Memorial Award for their work on the article “Relationships, Layoffs, and Organizational Resilience: Airline Industry Responses to September 11”, which appeared in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (Volume 42, issue 3, September 2006, pp. 300-329).
Special Report on Positive Organizational Scholarship
The Stranger at the Water Cooler (an article on a chapter from Exploring Positive Relationships at Work (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006
Creating a Positive Spiral between Agentic Behaviors and Resources
HBR named POS one of the breakthrough ideas for 2004 - excerpt on POS.
