Org Behavior Chapter 7

Well-Being and Flourishing

impact of five elements—positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement (PERMA).

Organizational Climate

represents employees' beliefs about what they "see" going on at work and beliefs about "what" is happening to them. These perceptions can range from positive and uplifting to negative and debilitating

Benefits of Mindfulness

Increased Physical, Mental, and Interpersonal Effectiveness More Effective Communications More Balanced Emotions Personal Effectiveness

Mindlessness

-State of reduced attention expressed in behavior that is rigid or thoughtless -Failure to control emotions is a key component -Requires minimal information processing -Done automatically -Associated with poor mental and physical health

Benefits of Virtuous Leadership

Increased: Financial performance Customer satisfaction Positive organizational climate Measures of organizational effectiveness

Conscious Capitalism (CC)

Integrating POB through every aspect of the organization and incorporating: •Higher purpose (beyond profit maximization). •Stakeholder interdependence (rather than shareholder-centric). •Conscious leadership (instead of "carrots and sticks"). •Conscious culture (instead of bottom-line focused).

Positive OB (POB)

The study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and the psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for improvement performance in today's workplace

Flourishing

represents the extent to which our lives contain PERMA. When we flourish, our lives result in "goodness . . . growth, and resilience." We should all strive to flourish because of its association with other positive health outcomes

Inhibitors of Mindfulness

•Attentional deficit -Inability to focus vividly on an object •Attentional hyperactivity -Happens when our minds are racing or wandering, resulting in compulsive daydreaming or fantasizing

Components of Virtuous Leadership

•Greater Good •Trust •Integrity •Forgiveness

Efficacy

•Confidence in your ability to do something •Influences the world around you and your ability to deal with inherent challenges and opportunities •Greater efficacy leads to being more confident and positive

Strategies to Increase Positivity

•Create high-quality connections •Cultivate kindness •Develop distractions Dispute negative self-talk and thoughts

Organizational Practices

•Host of procedures, policies, practices, routines, and rules that organizations use to get things done -Training -Support programs -Human resource practices, programs, and policies

Organizational Values

•Ideals that are endorsed, shared, and supported by the organization as a whole

Optimism

•Optimists view successes as due to their personal, permanent, and pervasive causes, and negative events to external, temporary, and situation-specific causes •Optimists are realistic and flexible •Optimism is self-inspirational

Benefits of POB

•Positive deviance: -Successful performance that dramatically exceeds the norm in a positive direction -Provides insight into predictors of job performance •Positive Businesses Do Well and Good •They do well by being profitable and performing at a high level •They do good by making the well-being of their employees and other stakeholders a priority

Positivity Begets Positivity

•Self-reinforcing and perpetuating aspects of positive emotions and positivity leads to upward spirals of positivity, where positive behaviors, feelings, and attitudes feed your own and those of others in a continual, reinforcing process

Resilience

•The capacity to consistently bounce back from adversity and to sustain yourself in the face of the demands of positive events

Virtuous Leadership

•What individuals and organizations aspire to be when they are at their very best •Help individuals, groups, and organizations to elevate, enrich, and flourish

The two components of hope

willpower and waypower. This means to have hope you need to have a goal and the determination to achieve it (will-power), and you need to see one or more alternative paths to achieve your goal, even when faced with adversity (waypower).

Mindfulness

―The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose ―Is in the present moment ―Is nonjudgmental to the unfolding of experience moment by moment ―Requires effort because the brain works in ways that detract from staying focused ―Improves interpersonal communication ―Requires attentional balance

Negative Emotions

•Are limiting •Spur you to act in narrow or specific ways

Positive emotions

•Are resources that fuel individual, group, and organizational flourishing •Help build social, psychological, and physical resources •Combat negative emotions •Broaden your mindset, open you to consider new things •Have benefits which endure over long periods of time

Psychological Capital (PsyCap)

Those with high levels of PsyCap have high levels of: •Hope. Persevering toward goals and, when necessary, redirecting paths to goals (hope) in order to succeed. •Efficacy. Having confidence (efficacy) to take on and put in the necessary effort to succeed at challenging tasks. •Resilience. When beset by problems and adversity, sustaining and bouncing back and even beyond (resilience) to attain success. •Optimism. Making a positive attribution (optimism) about succeeding now and in the future.