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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.		Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation edited by Laura Morgan Roberts and Jane E. Dutton, 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.

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

Berg, J., Dutton, J., & Wrzesniewski, A. (2008). Job design from the inside out: How employees at different levels craft their job. (NOTE: Please contact Jane Dutton at janedut@umich.edu if you would like a copy.)

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. Administrative Quarterly (provisionally accepted)

Cameron, K., Caza, A., & Bright, D. (2008). Positive deviance, organizational virtousness, and performance.

Dutton, J., Roberts, L.M., & Bednar, J. (2008). Positive work-related identities and why they matter: A prism for understanding. (NOTE: Please contact Jane Dutton at janedut@umich.edu if you would like a copy.)

Sandelands, L. & Worline, M. (2008). The social life of organizations.

Sonenshein, S., & Dutton, J. (2008). Being a sustainable environmentalist: A model of identity challenge and restoration. (NOTE: Please contact Jane Dutton at janedut@umich.edu if you would like a copy.)

Sonenshein, S., Grant, A., Dutton, J., Spreitzer, G., & Sutcliffe, K. (2008). Understanding growth at work: A narrative view. (NOTE: Please contact Jane Dutton at janedut@umich.edu if you would like a copy.)

Stephens, J.P., Heaphy, E., Spreitzer, G., Dutton, J., & Bagozzi, R. (2008). Developing a measure of high-quality connections at work. (NOTE: Please contact Jane Dutton at janedut@umich.edu if you would like a copy.)

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

Worline, M., Lilius, J., Dutton, J. , Kanov, J., Maitlis, S., & Frost, P. (2008). The sustainable expression of compassion at work: A practice lens on emotion-based collective capabilities. (NOTE: Please contact Jane Dutton at janedut@umich.edu if you would like a copy.)

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.

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

Carmeli, A., Brueller, D., & Dutton, J. (2009). Learning behaviors in the workplace: The role of high-quality interpersonal relationships and psychological safety. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 26, 81-98.

Cameron, K. (2005). Organizational effectiveness: Its demise and re-emergence through positive organizational scholarship. IIn K. G. Smith & M. A. Hitt (Eds.), Great minds in management: The process of theory development (pp. 304-330). New York: Oxford University Press.

Cameron, K. & Caza, A. (2005). Developing strategies for responsible leadership. In J.P. Doh & S. Stumph (Eds.), Handbook on responsible leadership and governance in global business (pp. 87-111). New York: Oxford University Press.

Caza, A., Barker, B. A., & Cameron, K. (2004). Ethics and ethos: The buffering and amplifying effects of ethical behavior and virtuousness. Journal of Business Ethics, 52, 169-178.

Caza, A., & Quinn, R. (2007). The essence of transformation: Entering the fundamental state of leadership.In S.K. Piderit, R.E. Fry, & D.L. Cooper (Eds.), Handbook of transformative cooperation: New designs and dynamics (pp.170-191). Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Caza, B., & Caza, A. (2008). Positive organizational scholarship: A critical theory perspective. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17, (21-22).

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.

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.

Frost, P., Dutton, J., Maitlis, S., Lilius, J., Kanov, J., & Worline, M. (2006). Seeing organizations differently: Three lenses on compassion. In C. Hardy, S. Clegg, T. Lawrence & W. Nord (Eds.), Handbook of organizational studies, second edition (pp. 843-866). London: Sage Publications.

Gittell, J. H., Cameron, K., Lim, S. & Rivas, V. (2006). Relationships, layoffs, and organizational resilience. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42, 300-328.

Grant, A.M., Dutton, J.E., & Rosso, B.D. (2008). Giving commitment: Employee support programs and the prosocial sensemaking process. Academy of Management Journal 51(5), 898-918.

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.

Powley, E.H. & Cameron, K. (2006). Organizational healing: Lived virtuousness amidst organizational crisis. Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion, 3, 13-33.

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. (2007). Giving peace a chance: Organizational leadership, empowerment, and peace. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28, 1077-1095.

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.