Positive Organizational Behavior At Work

International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2010

Volumn 25, Issue , 2010, Pages 253-291

  Campbell Quick, James ^a   Cooper, Cary L ^b   Gibbs, Philip C ^c   Little, Laura M ^d   Nelson, Debra L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Future of POB POB paradigm, pathology orientation in individual and organizational psychology; Grounded counterbalance; Organizational behavior (OB) predicting, and controlling group and individual human behavior in organizational settings; Positive organizational behavior (POB) extension of positive psychology initiative; Positive organizational behavior at work; Positive organizational scholarship; Positive states, positive emotions emotions, feature of our affective systems; Roots of POB positive psychology; Translation of POB concepts into workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054063318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661628.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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