Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship

Welcome

The Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship is committed to advancing research in the emerging field of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). This Web site is both a medium of communication for the Center for POS, and a learning and networking community for POS scholars and practitioners worldwide. We also welcome anyone who is interested in learning about this emerging field. For more information or to contribute to our community, please contact positiveorg@umich.edu.

News and Media Coverage

Positive Links
Monthly Speaker Series

Publications and
Working Papers

Work, Learn, and Contribute	Recent Books, Special Issues, and Tools	Other Highlights

The Power of Compassion - 4th Annual International Conference on Engaging the Other. San Francisco, CA, November 12-15, 2009.	Magnetic Forces of POS - The Center for POS hosted its fourth biennial conference December 4-6 in Ann Arbor.	POS-relevant Sessions at Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2009 Nearly 60 sessions touched on POS themes.
	2009 World Appreciative Inquiry Conference Creating a Positive Revolution for Sustainable Change, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 16-19, 2009.	Video - spend a few moments with the faculty and some past participants in the Ross School Executive Education Positive Leadership programs.

More Upcoming POS-Related Conferences

NEW BOOK - Lift - Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation. Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. 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.	NEW BOOK - Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation - edited by Laura Morgan Roberts and Jane E. Dutton. This 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.	New DVD - A companion DVD for the teaching case Anne Ladky: An Energy Approach to Leadership, featuring an interview with Anne Ladky, is now available for purchase.
Special Issue on the Positive Agenda. JOB, Forthcoming in December. Table of Contents	NEW OFFERING- At-a-Glance Summaries for Building High Quality Connection Based on Energize your Workplace (Dutton, 2006) and Trust is Everything (Mishra and Mishra, 2008), the At-a-Glance Summaries are part of a suite of materials for Understanding High Quality Connections at Work. They were built by Mary Ceccanese and Karen Dickinson for use in running workshops on Building High Quality Connections in conjunction with Voices of the Staff at the University of Michigan. The Center for POS is pleased to offer these summaries free of charge. The ROCC of Trust: At-a-Glance Respectful Engagement: At-a-Glance Task Enabling: At-a-Glance	NEW - Job Crafting Suite of Products: Job Crafting Exercise Crafting a Fulfilling Job: Bringing Passion Into Work (teaching case) Job Crafting at Burt's Bees (teaching case) What is Job Crafting and Why Does It Matter? (theory-to-practice briefing)
Review of Exploring Positive Relationships at Work: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation (Jane E. Dutton & Belle Rose Ragins, eds.) in Admin Sci Quart, Vol 53, No. 1, 2008.	NEW OFFERING Next Great Companies in Michigan Mini-cases A series of eight cases written by Lynn Wooten for the Next Great Companies in Michigan project, which profiles great places to work in Michigan.
Free e-book by Wendy Mack and Deanna Banks - Leading After Layoffs: Best Practices for Re-Energizing Your Workforce.

NEW RESEARCH CENTER - the Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education is based at Stanford University and is dedicated to gaining a deep understanding of compassion and its associated human behaviors.	NEW FEATURE - Community Scholars interactive map: see where POS scholars are located world wide	New Listing on Related Not-for-Profit Organizations page: - Positive Deviance Initiative
Kim Cameron on corporate virtuousness and its relationship to corporate success - Voice America Business radio show	The Center for POS is happy to announce the winners of the first bi-annual $5,000 Award for Best Paper in Positive Organizational Scholarship. Adam Grant and Ingrid Nembhard accepted on behalf of the authors of their respective papers at the Magnetic Forces of POS conference in Ann Arbor on December 5, 2008.	Positive Words Still Work the Best - Interview with Gretchen Spreitzer on the RBS Exercise in the Australian Financial Review, Mar 11 2008
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.	Center for POS - The First Five Years 2002-2007 - Our first retrospective report - A brief slide show