The need for and meaning of positive organizational behavior

By Fred Luthans. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Positive organisation : the role of leader behaviour in work engagement and retention : original research (2011, background): “Positive psychology is a more modern and effective approach, as it focuses on human strengths (Luthans, 2002).”
Values and behaviors of effective lean managers: Mixed-methods exploratory research (2017, background): “Our findings also show alignment with values and behaviors of the positive organizational studies (POS) literature, e.g., emotional intelligence and respectful interaction (Carmeli, Dutton, & Hardin, in press; Luthans, 2002).”
Can Positive Employees Help Positive Organizational Change? Impact of Psychological Capital and Emotions on Relevant Attitudes and Behaviors (2008, background): “…propose the newly emerging fields of positive organizational scholarship (Cameron & Caza, 2004; Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn, 2003; Roberts, 2006) and positive organizational behavior (Luthans, 2002a, 2002b; Nelson & Cooper, 2007; Wright, 2003) may offer insights into effective organizational change.”
How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees’ Job Performance: The Mediating Roles of Goal Congruence and Psychological Capital (2014, background): “With this study, we weigh in on this topic by providing support for scholarly conceptual positions, indicating that PsyCap is related to in-role job performance (Luthans 2002; Wright 2003).”
Implications of core self-evaluations for a changing organizational context (2011, background): “For organizational research, this means devoting at least as much time to topics like motivation, satisfaction, learning, and adaptation as is spent on topics like stress, conflict, withdrawal, and turnover (Luthans, 2002).”
Positive organizational behavior: Engaged employees in flourishing organizations (2008, background): “According to Luthans (2002), POB is interested in ‘‘the study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement in today’s workplace’’ (p. 59).”
Burnout and engagement: A South African perspective (2003, background): “Adopting a utilitarian, cost-benefit perspective emphasizing the goal of enhanced workplace performance, Luthans (2002a, 2002b) noted the need for a more relevant, proactive approach to organisational research, which he termed positive organisational behaviour.”
Recognition and development of hope for South African organizational leaders (2004, methodology): “Particularly relevant to South African organizational leaders’ challenges would be self-efficacy (confidence), optimism, and resiliency (Luthans, 2002b).”
In the Eyes of the Beholder (2009, positive): “Positive organizational behavior is defined as “the study and application of positive oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement in today’s workplace” (Luthans, 2002b, p. 59).”
The relative importance of various job resources for work engagement: A concurrent and follow-up dominance analysis (2021, neutral): “After that we aimed to choose the types of job resources that were relevant and meaningful in all the participating organizations, and which could be measured but also developed and managed to improve performance (Luthans, 2002).”
Psychological Capital, Work Well-Being, and Work-Life Balance Among Chinese Employees A Cross-Lagged Analysis (2013, background): “PsyCap is considered as state-like capacities which are relatively more malleable and thus are open to change and development than trait-like personality characteristics (Luthans, 2002; Luthans & Youssef, 2007).”
Diversity Training: Analysis of the Impact of Self-Efficacy (2007, background): “Combs, Gwendolyn and Luthans, Fred, "Diversity Training: Analysis of the Impact of Self-Efficacy" (2007). Management Department”
Searching for resilience: the impact of employee-level and entrepreneur-level resilience on firm performance in small family firms (2020, positive): “Following this logic, it has been proposed that more managerial attention should be paid towards nurturing optimism, hope and resilience among a firm’s employees (Coutu 2002; Luthans 2002a).”
The Effects of Proximity and Empathy on Ethical Decision-Making: An Exploratory Investigation (2009, background): “positive organizational behavior and positive organizational scholarship (Cameron et al., 2003; Luthans, 2002).”