Positive Organizational Scholarship" is a book that helps establish a new field of study in the organizational sciences. It examines a variety of positive dynamics in organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes, often described by words, such as excellence, thriving, flourishing, abundance, vitality, and resilience. POS has a bias toward life-giving, generative, and ennobling human phenomena. It represents a value perspective based on ideas of "goodness" and positive human potential. POS is distinguished from traditional organizational studies in that it seeks to understand what represents the best of the human condition, and it does so in rigorous ways.

Table of Contents :

1. Foundations of Positive Organizational Scholarship.
Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn
2. Positive Organizational Studies: Lessons from Positive Psychology.
Christopher M. Peterson and Martin E.P. Seligman
3. Virtues and Organizations.
Nanson Park and Christopher M. Peterson
4. Organizational Virtuousness and Performance.
Kim S. Cameron
5. Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy.
Karl E. Weick
6. Acts of Gratitude in Organizations.
Robert A. Emmons
7. Organizing for Resilience.
Kathleen m. Sutcliffe and Timothy J. Vogus
8. Investing in Strengths.
Donald O. Clifton and James K. Harter
9. Transcendent Behavior.
Thomas S. Bateman and Christine Porath
10. Courageous Principled Action.
Monica C. Worline and Ryan W. Quinn
11. Positive Emotions and Upward Spirals in Organizations.
Barbara L. Fredickson
12. Positive and Negative Emotions in Organizations.
Richard P. Bagozzi
13. New Knowledge Creation in Organizations.
Fiona Lee, Arran Caza, Amy Edmondson, and Stefan Thomke
14. Positive Deviance and Extraordinary Organizing.
Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Scott Sonenshein
15. Toward a Theory of Positive Organizational Change.
David L.Cooperrider and Leslie E. Sekarka
16. Authentic Leadership Development.
Fred Luthans and Bruce Avolio
17. The Power of High-Quality Connections.
Jane E. Dutton and Emily D. Heaphy
18. A Theory of Relational Coordination.
Jody Hoffer Gitell
19. Finding Positive Meaning in Work.
Amy Wrzesniewski
20. Fostering Meaningfulness in Working and at Work.
Michael G. Pratt and Blake E. Ashforth
21. Positive Organizational Network Analysis and Energizing Relationships.
Wayne Baker, Rob Cross and Melisa Wooten
22. Empowerment and Cascading Vitality.
Martha S. Feldman and Anne M. Khademian
23. Developing a Discipline of Positive Organizational Scholarship.
Kim S. Cammeron, Jane E. Dutton, Robert E. Quinn and Amy Wrzesniewski
References.
Index.