Welcome to the Academy Gathering of POS Scholars

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Welcome to the Academy Gathering of POS Scholars

• New Orleans
• Sunday, August 8, 2004

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Agenda Creating POS Microcommunities

• What is POS?
• Sharing news from the last year
• POS Discussion Groups
• Round 1
• Round 2
• Report outs
• Presentation of the POS artifact

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A Continuum The Essence
of POS Individual Physiological Illness
Health
Fitness Psychological Illness
Health Flow -------------------
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Negative Deviance Normal
Positive Deviance Organizational Profitability
Unprofitable Profitable
Virtuous Effectiveness Ineffective
Effective Excellent Efficiency
Inefficient Efficient
Generous Quality Error-prone
Reliable Perfect Ethics Unethical
Ethical Benevolent Relationshi
ps Harmful Helpful
Honoring Adaptation Threat-rigidity
Coping Flourishing
Solving problems Fostering
Extraordinary Performance
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Core Biases

• Positive
• Values of goodness and the best of the human
  condition, including excellence, thriving,
  flourishing, abundance, and virtuousness
• Nonlinear positive, elevating dynamics
• Organizational
• Enablers (e.g., processes, capabilities,
  structures, practices, cultures), the motivations
  (e.g., unselfish, altruistic, contribution
  without regard to self), and outcomes or effects
  (e.g., vitality, meaningfulness, exhilaration,
  high quality relationships, development,
  improvement) associated with remarkably positive
  phenomena
• Scholarship
• Rigorous, systematic, and theory-based
  foundations for positive phenomena
• Precise definitions of terms, a theoretical or
  empirical rationale for prescriptions and
  recommendations, consistency with scientific
  procedures in drawing conclusions, and grounding
  in previous related work

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News from the Past Year

• POS Book Success (Bob)
• Special Issue of ABS (Kim)
• POS website upgrade (Jane)
• Conferences
• September 2003 Chronic Pain and POS (Bob)
• December 2003 2nd Biannual POS conference (Mary
  Ann)
• January 2004 BAWB (David Bright)
• May 2004 Workshop on Connections and Health
  (Emily)

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News from the Past Year

• More conferences
• May 2004 Positive Meaning Pod (Amy W.)
• June 2004 Authentic Leadership (Bruce and Fred)
• August 2004 POS PDW (a participant)
• September 2004 Relationships conference (Belle)
• Partnership with the Positive Psych Foundation
  (Gretchen)
• Others from the floor?

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Pod Discussion Groups

• Resilience and thriving
• Kathie Sutcliffe, Tim Vogus and Marlys
  Christianson
• Positive meaning
• Amy Wrzesniewski, Ryan Quinn, and Ruth Blatt
• Positive relationships
• Jane Dutton, Belle Ragins, and Emily Heaphy
• Positive leadership
• Bruce Avolio, Fred Luthans, and Bob Quinn
• Positive emotions
• Leslie Sekerka, Monica Worline, and Seung-Yoon
  Rhee
• Positive change
• Karen Golden Biddle, Martha Feldman, and David
  Bright
• Creativity, play and humor
• Mary Ann Glynn, Katherine Lawrence
• Positive self-knowledge and positive identity
• Laura Morgan Roberts and Brianna Barker
• Other Pod suggestions?