Character strengths in organizations

By Christopher Peterson, Nansook Park. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Social Psychology

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Effects of a Strengths Intervention on General and Work-Related Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Affect (2017, background): “Despite these supposed benefits, today’s organizations often overlook the potential of organizing work around employee strengths (Peterson and Park 2006).”
The structure of virtue: An empirical investigation of the dimensionality of the virtues in action inventory of strengths (2010, methodology): “…exam- ll rights reserved. is Community and Technical , MN 55403, United States. ple in education (Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006; Steen, Kachorek, & Peterson, 2003), clinical settings (Seligman & Peterson, 2003; Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005), and organizations (Peterson & Park, 2006).”
The Role of Character Strengths for Task Performance, Job Dedication, Interpersonal Facilitation, and Organizational Support (2014, background): “For example, interpersonal character strengths (love, kindness, social intelligence) were especially related to satisfaction with work in jobs that explicitly involve other people like teaching or sales (Peterson & Park, 2006).”
The Application of Signature Character Strengths and Positive Experiences at Work (2013, background): “Research has already pointed to the role of specific character strengths within certain jobs; for example, the strengths of humanity were especially related to job satisfaction in jobs that involve other people like teaching or sales (Peterson and Park 2006).”
Organizational Virtue Orientation and Family Firms (2011, background): “Organizational Virtue Orientation A growing number of scholars are interested in the study of character and virtue in business organizations (e.g., Cameron et al., 2004; Fort, 1996; Gowri, 2007; Hartman, 2008; Koehn, 1998; Moore, 2005; 2008; Peterson & Park, 2006; Schudt, 2000).”
Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction (2007, background): “One explanation is that there are different ways to be happy (Guignon, 1999 ; Peterson, 2006 ; Russell, 1930 ; Seligman, 2002 ).”
Authenticity, employee silence, prohibitive voice, and the moderating effect of organizational identification (2013, result): “In doing so, our findings support positive psychology’s (e.g. Peterson & Park, 2006; Spreitzer & Sonenshein, 2004) claim that considering individuals’ strengths and virtues in organizational research will offer new perspectives, particularly in the context of work per- formance in which classic…”
A self-determination perspective of strengths use at work: Examining its determinant and performance implications (2016, background): “…have made some headway in examining individual strengths (e.g. Buckingham, 2007; Harzer & Ruch, 2012, 2013; Linley & Harrington, 2006), this construct has yet to garner much attention in organizational behavior research (for exceptions, see Clifton & Harter, 2003; Peterson & Park, 2006).”
Vigor as a Positive Affect at Work: Conceptualizing Vigor, Its Relations with Related Constructs, and Its Antecedents and Consequences (2011, background): “A major premise underlying positive organizational scholarship is that understanding and developing workplace strengths represents an effective way of realizing positive outcomes for both individual employees and organizations (Gable & Haidt, 2005; Peterson & Park, 2006).”
Zest and work (2009, background): “Research on character strengths has had had an individual focus, but many of the benefits of good character may be most evident in social contexts like those provided by the workplace (Peterson & Park, 2006).”