Call for Papers: “Positive Organizational Change”

From: THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, Vol. 42 No. 2, June 2006 143
© 2006 NTL Institute

Call for Papers

“Positive Organizational Change”

Special Issue
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Kim S. Cameron and Edward H. Powley, Guest Editors

We invite submissions to a special issue of The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science focused on positive organizational change. Positive organizational change refers to changes that lead to developing human strength, producing resilience and restoration, fostering vitality, reaching positively deviant performance, and cultivating extraordinary individuals and organizations. The term positive may have at least three different connotations: (a) positive deviance, extraordinary success, or spectacularly effective organizational performance; (b) an affirmative bias toward positive communication, positive rewards, positive behaviors, positive strengths, or other positive practices in organizational behavior; and (c) virtuousness, the best of the human condition, or positive principles that are often labeled as examples of fundamental goodness. Understanding positive organizational change is presumed to lead to understanding how to enable human excellence in organizations, reveal possibilities for higher levels of achievement, and move us along a more positive course of human flourishing and organizational welfare. A focus on positive organizational change does not adopt one particular theory, framework, intervention, or methodological approach; rather, it draws from the full spectrum of organizational theories and methods to understand, explain, and predict the occurrence, causes, and consequences of positive organizational change.

Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail prior to March 1, 2007, to:

Professor Kim S. Cameron
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
701 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234
E-mail: kim_cameron [at] umich.edu

Ode

If you've never seen it, you might want to check out Ode magazine. It is published in Dutch, English, and Portuguese. In their own words,

Ode is an independent magazine about the people and ideas that are changing the world.

OSU Center for Resilience

AMOC, CIGO, and MPOD students (and grads!) may be interested in this organization at The Ohio State University.

I had an opportunity to hear Joseph Fiksel, a co-director of the Center, speak last night at a local chapter meeting of the Organization Development Network.

Dr. Fiksel is exploring resilience from a variety of physical and metaphorical perspectives. His group is developing a 'measure' of resilience in organizations, and they are actively looking for partners who are interested in using and evaluating the new tool. Although I didn't ask, I'm sure they would love an international (read: outside of the USA) partner! It would add robustness to the tool evaluation and make it more widely relevant. Any takers?

Connectedness

Social Network Analysis is one of the topics of interest to at least a few CIGO and MPOD students. This morning I stumbled on a blog that points to several resources for visualizing social networks:

Connectedness