ABSTRACT

Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as resilience, job crafting, responsible leadership and mindfulness. Other books on positive approaches tend to gloss over the limitations of the positive agenda, but this textbook is unique in taking a reflective approach, focussing on the positive while also accommodating critical perspectives relating to power and control.

Positive Organizational Behaviour provides an integrated conceptual framework, evidence-based findings and practical tools to gain an understanding of the potential of positive organizational practices.

This innovative new textbook will provide advanced management and psychology students with a grounding in the area, and help them develop strategies for building effective and responsible organizations.

part I|44 pages

Prologue

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|29 pages

Positive organizations

The foundations

part II|155 pages

Positivity and the self

chapter 2|39 pages

Leveraging on individual strengths

chapter 3|25 pages

Psychological capital

The ‘HERO’ effect

chapter 4|44 pages

Emotions and happiness at work

part III|106 pages

Positivity in collectives

chapter 6|49 pages

Generative interactions in organizations

chapter 7|55 pages

Real teams

Supporting learning and change

part IV|187 pages

Building contexts

chapter 8|48 pages

Positive leadership

Humble, ethical, authentic and servant

chapter 9|43 pages

Great workplaces

chapter 10|43 pages

Powering positivity

chapter 11|51 pages

The positive organization of progress

part |41 pages

Epilogue

chapter 12|39 pages

The positive–negative dialectic