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Positive Psychology at Work
How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations
This book offers an inspiring and exciting way forward for work organizations. It shows how we can enhance organizational effectiveness through promoting the well-being and efficacy of the people who make up business organizations: the staff. Grounded in psychology and management research, the book offers leaders, practitioners and employees a clear agenda for creating positive and appreciative cultures that promote performance. Positive Psychology at Work is a much needed book that lifts the lid on how a more appreciative, strengths-focused approach can transform organisations for the better. When organisations and their leaders focus on enhancing the best of what their people have to offer, they enable them to achieve the goals for which they strive, at the same time building the resilience they will need to cope with the changes and challenges of the modern world. I strongly recommend this book for organisational leaders and those who strive to support them.
—Mike West, Executive Dean and Professor of Psychology, Aston University, UK.
—Alex Linley, Founding Director, Capp, UK
Sarah Lewis (Author)
9780470683200, Wiley
Hardback, published 8 April 2011
270 pages
23.8 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.49 kg
“For these reasons, Lewis’s timely and accessible book will be useful to business leaders and introductory audiences interested less in the science behind positive psychology and appreciative inquiry than in its ready application to the organizational setting.” (PsycCRITIQUES, 11 July 2012) "Highly recommended. Business collections serving lower-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 November 2011) "Overall, I would recommend this book to postgraduate researchers, consultants and senior managers who are serious about wanting to invest the time to learn more about the use of positive psychology and appreciate inquiry to improve organisations." (The Psychologist, 1 October 2011) "I believe this book will quickly become a classic reference text. In just over 200 pages Lewis has produced a content rich, accessible work that readers will want to revisit regularly. And I’ve no doubt they will be pleasantly surprised at how much fresh information they glean each time they do." People Management, April 11 "Overall, this is a very readable book, of more interest to the business and organisation leader than to the practising psychologist, for whom the lack of detailed referencing and methodological evaluation would be problematic. However, if, like me, you are not versed in the psychology of work or for that matter, positive psychology, but you do have a practical interest in how organisations (don’t) work, maybe simply as an employee, then this book is a very readable introductory text with lots of ideas for activities and reflective activities as well as further reading." BPS South-West Review, Spring 2012
Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence.
About the Author xi Book Contributors xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgements xxi The Short Version of This Book xxiii 1 Introduction to Positive Psychology 1 Positive Psychology is Not Positive Thinking 2 How Positive Psychology Differs from Positive Thinking 3 The Ethical Bias of This Book 6 Key Themes of the Book 8 2 Positive Workplaces 11 Introduction 13 What is a Positive Workplace? 13 How Does Positive Organizational Behaviour Turn into Positive Organizational Performance? 20 Organizational Culture 23 The Organization as a Complex Adaptive System 26 Why is Culture so Hard to Change? 31 How to Create Positive Workplaces 34 Summary 37 Further Reading 38 3 Positive Engagement and Performance 39 Introduction 40 Active Engagement at Work 42 Strengths and Talents 42 Flow 51 Mindfulness 52 Management Influence on Engagement and Productivity at Work 53 Goal Seeking 54 Goal Setting 56 Goal Setting and Environment Contingencies 58 The Meaningfulness of Work 63 Strategies for Increasing the Meaningfulness of Work 64 Summary 67 Recommended Reading 69 4 Positive Communication and Decision-Making 71 Introduction 71 Communication 72 Connectivity 74 Dynamic Patterns of Communication 76 How to Build Positive Communication and Increase Performance 78 Leadership and Positive Communication 78 Best Self-Feedback 79 Decision-Making 83 Emotions in Decision-Making 86 Micro-Decision-Making 91 Other Factors that Enhance Decision-Making 92 Moving from Decision-Making to Sense-Making 96 Summary 99 Further Reading 100 5 Positive Leadership and Change 101 Introduction 101 Leadership 102 Psychopathic Leaders 107 Organizational Change 124 Approaches to Change 125 Leadership Change Behaviour 130 Effective Leadership Behaviour 131 Developing Strategy 134 Summary 136 Further Reading 137 6 Positive Sustainable Growth 139 Introduction 139 Psychological Capital 142 Appreciative Inquiry 158 Positive Profusion Theory of Growth of the Positive Organization 166 The Three-Circle Strengths Revolution 168 Summary 170 Further Reading 170 7 Positive Relationships at Work 171 Introduction 172 Positive Team Working 174 High Quality Working Relationships 184 Summary 192 Further Reading 193 8 Positive Transformation 195 Introduction 197 Key Processes of Flourishing and Inspiring Workplaces 197 Why Organizations Ignore the Transformative Collaboration Approach to Change 199 Transformative Collaboration 204 Patterns of Organizational Life 204 Transformative Collaboration Approaches 213 Summary 221 Further Reading 227 Other Things You Need to Know 229 How to Live a Happy and Meaningful Life 229 How to Have a Better Quality Old Age 229 References 231 Index 239
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
