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MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE:
LEADING EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE -
THE ROCKY FLATS STORY
Cameron, K., and Lavine, M. (2006). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
The most contaminated nuclear plant in the country, Rocky Flats was an environmental disaster
and the site of rampant worker unrest. Although it was estimated that it would take 70 years
and $36 billion to clean up and close the facility, something stunning happened. The project
was completed 60 years ahead of schedule and $30 billion under budget and is now on its way to
becoming a wildlife refuge. In Making the Impossible Possible, Kim Cameron and Marc
Lavine explain how this remarkable feat was achieved--and how breakthrough levels of performance
can be achieved by any organization.
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EXPLORING POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS AT WORK:
BUILDING A THEORETICAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Dutton, J.E., & Ragins, B.R. (2007). Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
This edited volume brings together a select group of leading organizational scholars for
the purpose of developing a foundation-setting book on positive relationships at work.
Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) is a rich new interdisciplinary domain of inquiry
that focuses on the generative processes, relational mechanisms, and outcomes associated
with positive relationships between people at work. This volume builds a solid foundation
for this promising new area of scholarly inquiry 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.
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POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP: FOUNDATIONS OF A NEW DISCIPLINE
Cameron, K., Dutton, J.E., and Quinn, R.E. (eds.). (2003). Positive Organizational Scholarship:
Foundations of a New Discipline. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Table of Contents
Introductory Chapter (1)
Concluding Chapter (23)
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Written by senior scholars and internationally known authors, Positive Organizational Scholarship:
Foundations of a New Discipline establishes a new field of study in the organizational sciences.
Just as positive psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than
pathological ones, Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline focuses
attention on optimal organizational states – the dynamics in organizations that lead to the
development of human strength, foster resiliency in employees, make healing, restoration, and
reconciliation possible, and cultivate extraordinary individual and organizational performance.
While the concept of positive organizational scholarship encompasses the examination of typical and even
dysfunctional patterns of behavior, it emphasizes positive deviance from expected patterns. Positive
Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline examines the enablers, motivations, and
effects associated with remarkably positive phenomena --- how they are facilitated, why they work, how they
can be identified, and how researchers and managers can capitalize on them. The contributors do not adopt
one particular theory or framework but draw from the full spectrum of organizational theories to understand,
explain, and predict the occurrence, causes, and consequences of positivity.
Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline rigorously seeks to
understand what represents the best of the human condition based on scholarly research and theory. This book
invites organizational scholars to build upon and extend the positive organizational phenomena being examined.
It provides the definitional, theoretical, and empirical foundations for what will become a cumulative body of
enduring work.
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