Positive Organizational Behaviour

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.

Miguel Pina e Cunha is the Amélia de Mello Foundation Professor of Leadership at the Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Arménio Rego is Professor at Católica Porto Business School, Portugal. Ace Volkmann Simpson is Reader in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour at Brunel University, London, UK. Stewart Clegg is Professor in Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Prologue Introduction 1. Positive organizations: the foundations 2. Leveraging on individual strengths 3. Psychological capital: the "HERO" effect 4. Emotions and happiness at work 5. Designing work for meaning, learning and health Positivity in collectives 6. Generative interactions in organizations 7. Real teams: supporting learning and change Building contexts 8. Positive leadership: Humble, ethical, authentic, and servant 9. Great workplaces 10. Powering positivity 11. The positive organization of progress Epilogue 12. The positive-negative dialectic