Paradox in Positive Organizational Change

By Kim Cameron. 2008

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Organizational Change and Characteristics of Leadership Effectiveness (2009, background): “Negative events often indicate maladaptation or a threat to survival and trigger the need to change, whereas positive, more common events are less intense and invoke a more subdued response (Cameron, 2008).”
Effects of Positive Practices on Organizational Effectiveness (2011, background): “Organizations characterized by positive practices foster positive energy among members, and positive energy produces elevated performance (Cameron, 2008b; Dutton, 2003; von Erhardt-Siebold, 1937).”
Relationship between positive psychological capital and creative performance (2011, background): “Rather, resilience is a cumulative and interactive process that enables individuals to go beyond what is normal and to move to a positive disequilibrium and positive deviance (Cameron, 2008; Luthans, Youssef, & Avolio, 2007).”
What Does It Take to Implement Change Successfully? A Study of the Behaviors of Successful Change Leaders (2011, background): “However, within the broader literature on positive organizational scholarship, the importance of emphasis on positive factors in the context of change is identified (e.g., Avey, Wernsing, & Luthans, 2008; Cameron, 2008; Glynn & Dowd, 2008).”
Towards a more balanced treatment of culture in international business studies: The need for positive cross-cultural scholarship (2014, background): “In a similar vein, Cameron (2008) has noted that negative news sells more than positive ones, people pay more attention to negative feedback over the positive, and traumatic events have greater impact on individuals than positive situations.”
The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing (2013, background): “Finally, our recognition of the contradictory effect of technology affordances on online knowledge sharing is consistent with a stream of literature on the paradox of organizing, in which contradictory effects are perceived as opportunities to reexamine assumptions, explore underlying forces, and su”
Psychological Capital: An Evidence-Based Positive Approach (2017, background): “Finally, PsyCap can help mitigate the prevalent negativity bias and hedonic adaptation, sustaining well-being over time (Cameron 2008).”