In helping establish a new field of study in the organizational sciences, POS, this book examines a variety of positive dynamics in businesses and organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes. Positive Organizational Scholarship does not adopt one particular theory or framework, but encompasses any phenomenon that leads to positive, nurturing results. This collection of essays, written by established senior scholars, explains why and how these commonsense prescriptions work. About the Editors: Cameron is the Ford Motor Company/Richard E. Cook Professor of Management and Associate Dean in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. Jane E. Dutton is the William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration at The University of Michigan. She is the author of three books and numerous articles in the area of relational work in organizations, which have appeared in "Academy of Management Review, Strategic Thinking, "and "Administrative Science Quarterly, "among others. Dutton's article, "Leading in Times of Trauma," appeared in the January 2002 issue of "Harvard Business Review." Kim S. Cameron is professor of management and organization at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and professor of higher education in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. Robert E. Quinn holds the Margaret Elliot Tracey Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan and serves on the organization and management faculty at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. |