Chapter 7: Positive OB

Social Support

Amount of perceived helpfulness derived from social relationships. (esteem support, informational support, social companionship, instrumental support.)

Restorative Justice, Compassion, and Temperance.

Global values that are essential for promoting POB include:

willpower

Individuals have --------- when they have a goal and the determination to achieve it.

waypower

Individuals have ---------- when they can see one or more alternative paths to achieve their goal, even when faced with adversity.

Positive Emotions Engagement Relationships Meaning Achievement (PERMA)

List out the five elements of Well-Being.

Optimists

People who view successes as due to their personal, permanent, and pervasive causes, and negative events are due to external, temporary, and situation-specific ones.

Organizational Climate

Positive OB needs the right environment with respect to organizational culture and ---------- ------- to flourish.

Prosocial Behaviors

Positive acts performed without expecting anything in return.

buffer; psychological capital

Positive practices can ------ or reduce the impact of negative events and stressors, what is called --------------- --------

Amplifying

Positive practices can have an ------------ effect because of their association with positive emotions and social capital

Organizational practices

Procedures, policies, practices, routines, and rules that organizations use to get things done.

Positivity Effect

Refers to how all living systems are attracted toward life giving, positive energy, and away from life depleting, negative energy.

Organizational Values

Represent the ideals that are endorsed, shared, and supported by the organization as a whole.

Positive OB

Study and application of positively oriented human characteristics, strengths, and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement in today's workplace.

Positive Deviance

Successful performance that dramatically exceeds the norm in a positive direction.

Mindfulness

The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment.

Resilience

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

Well-being

The combined impact of five elements-- positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement (PERMA)

Flourishing

The extent to which our lives contain PERMA (Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Achievement)

willpower and waypower

The two components of hope are:

Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap)

When people have high levels of hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism (HERO).

Adversity

difficulties; misfortune.