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

Call for Papers: Positive Organizational Behavior

Call for Papers - Special Issue of Organizational Behaviour and Management Review on Positive Organizational Behavior

The Portuguese journal Organizational Behaviour and Management Review is looking to compile a set of papers contributing to improve Positive Organizational Behavior (POB) research and practice through a further refinement of POB's scope and goals, a higher knowledge on its determinants and consequences, and an illustration of how POB concepts can be put in practice. As such, a variety of approaches, methods, positive variables and theoretical frameworks are highly welcomed. Also, papers can be both oriented towards theory development or empirical testing. The papers may be submitted in English or Portuguese for review purposes, and should be prepared in accordance with the APA guidelines. All papers should be submitted by December, 1, 2006, to co-guest editor Miguel Lopes. You may also contact him for further information.

And Some More Calls for Papers

These items come from the December 2005 EI Update, which is published by the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations.

Call for Papers - 5th International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life, EMONET V (Atlanta, GA, August 10-12, 2006)

Researchers interested in studying emotions in organizational settings are invited to submit papers for Emonet V. The conference precedes the annual meetings of the Academy of Management, which are scheduled for August 11-16, 2006 in Atlanta. The conference is organized by the Emonet e-mail discussion group, now affiliated with the Academy of Management�s list server. The primary aim of the conference is to bring together scholars who study emotions in organizational life, and to provide a forum for presentation of some of the significant advances that have been made in our understanding of this important area. The conference papers will be considered for inclusion in Volumes 3 and 4 of the Elsevier Science Annual Series, Research on Emotion in Organizations. The deadline for receipt of papers is March 31, 2006. Please visit the Emonet website for more information.

Call for Papers - International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior, Symposium on Workplace Aggression

Guest editors Ann M. Callahan and Joann K. Williams are soliciting manuscripts for a symposium whose purpose is to provide a unified review of constructs used to define workplace aggression. Preference will be given to manuscripts that address workplace aggression between organizational members. Research across academic disciplines is also strongly encouraged. Both theoretical and empirical research are welcomed. Due date is March 15, 2006. Click here for more information.

Call for Papers - EURAM (Oslo, Norway, May 17-20, 2006)

Two tracks of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference are calling for papers. Track chairs Heike Bruch, Sven Volpel, and Bernd Vogel are leading the Organizational Energy - Energizing Leadership track. The purpose of the track is to connect, structure, and develop research about organizational energy.

Track chairs Andrea Fischbach, Isabell Welpe, Dieter Zapf, Tina Kiefer, and Anat Rafaeli are leading the Emotion in organizations - what we know and where we want to go track. They are establishing it as a platform in research and practice of emotion at the workplace for exchanging current knowledge, discussing diverse perspectives and strategies, as well as developing a research agenda for the future. Deadline for submissions to both tracks: February 1, 2006.

Call for Submissions - Special Edition on Organisational Autoethnography for Culture and Organization

Autoethnography is a recognised genre of qualitative sociological research but has not as yet entered the research lexicon of business and industrial sociology. This special edition attempts to promote that move. In the spirit of Carolyn Ellis� (1997) work on introspective and retrospective forays into the self, the editors propose to broaden the study of leadership to include work that is located within the autoethnographic genre. Autoethnography is an autobiographical form of research that connects the personal to the cultural through a �peeling back� of multiple layers of consciousness.

Submissions are requested on the topic of autoethnographic accounts of the leading self. Conceptual, theoretical and empirical articles are equally encouraged. It is anticipated that the special edition will be published in early 2007. Submissions should be received by 31st January, 2006. The editors for this special issue on Organisational Autoethnography are Professor Ken Parry and Dr. Maree Boyle, Centre for Work, Leisure and Community Research, Griffith University. Submissions should be sent by email or hard copy- and-diskette to Professor Ken Parry, Graduate School of Management, Griffith University, Nathan Qld 4111, Australia. k.parry @ griffith.edu.au, Tel: +61-7-3875 3703

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