Chapter 7: Positive Organizational Behavior
Negative Emotions are...
1. Limiting 2. Spur you to act in narrow or specific ways
What are 2 components of Hope?
1. Way power (Means for achieving the goal)---Need to see alternative to achieve the goal 2. Willpower (Having a goal and the determination to achieve it)
What is Flow?
State of being completely involved in an activity for its own sake
What is Mindlessness?
State of reduced attention expressed in behavior that is rigid or thoughtless. Failure to control emotions. Automatic. Poor mental and physical health
What is Positive Deviance?
Successful performance that dramatically exceeds the norm in a positive direction.
What is Engagement?
The extent to which you are physically, cognitively, and emotionally involved with an activity, task, or project.
What is Positive Organizational Behavior?
The study and application of oriented human resource strengths and the psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for improving performance in today''s workplace.
What is Meaningfulness?
When someone feels a sense of belong and serving something that is bigger than self
What is an Upward Spiral?
Where positive behaviors, feelings, and attitudes feed your own and those of others in a continual, reinforcing process
What is Well-Being and Flourishing? P E R M A
P-Positive Emotions E-Engagement R-Relationships M-Meaning A-Achievement
What is Achievement?
Pertaining to the extent to which you have a self-directed life, pursing achievement for it's own sake
What are Relationships?
Positive emotions are associated with activities involving others Social Support!!
What is optimism?
view successes as due to their personal permanent, and pervasive causes, and negative events to external, temporary, and situation-specific causes. Realistic and flexible
What are strategies to increase positivity?
1. Create high quality connections 2. Cultivate kindness 3. Develop distractions 4. Dispute negative self-talk and thoughts
What are benefits of positive emotions?
1. Help build social, psychological, and physical resources 2. Combat negative emotions 3. Broaden your mindset, open you to consider new things.
What is Mindfulness?
Awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose. Present moment. Staying focused and attentional balance.
What is resilience?
Capacity to consistently bounce back from adversity and to sustain yourself in the face of challenges
What is Efficacy?
Confidence in your ability to do something considering environment and how you deal with it.
What does Flourishing reflect?
Extent to which our lives contain PERMA
Those with high levels of PsyCap have high levels of... H E R O
Hope Efficacy Resilience Optimism
What is Conscious Capitalism?
Incorporates a higher purpose stakeholder interdependence, conscious leadership, and conscious culture.
