Chapter 7

Create flow for yourself (2):

1) identifying your signature strengths 2) learning to use them in daily personal and work activities

4 broad benefits of mindfulness:

1) increased physical, mental, and interpersonal effectiveness 2) more effective communications 3) more balanced emotions 4) personal effectiveness

Positive experiences:

activate a support orientation, which leads us to be more responsive to positive information

Positive emotions:

associated with stronger social relationships, prosocial behaviors, stronger bodies and immune systems, and original thinking

Mindfulness pertains to:

aware and attentive -awareness and attention pertain to inner (how am feeling at this moment? what am I thinking?) and outer (what are others feeling and doing? what is that noise? who has the most power in this group?)

Practicing mindfulness (3):

breathing meditation, walking mediation, practice makes perfect

Well-being:

combined impact of five elements positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement (PERMA) [measurable factors] *we must purse them for their own sake, not as means to obtain another outcome

Conscious capitalism:

companies integrate POB throughout every aspect of their organizations practice this

Positive OB is expected to...

elevate positive outcomes across inv, team, and org levels *exceptionally positive

PsyCap is ___ and it has been shown to predict many ___ of IF

flexible, outcomes

Attentional hyperactivity:

happens when our minds are wandering, resulting in compulsive daydreaming

Unforgiveness can affect your...

health

Building meaning (3):

identify activities you love doing - passion, find a way to build your natural strengths into personal/work life, go out and help someone

Exceptionally positive meaning...

inputs, processes, and outcomes are above and beyond expectations, more than simply "making the grade" (positive deviance)

Positive deviance:

successful performance that dramatically exceeds the norm in a positive direction

Social support:

the amount of perceived helpfulness derived from social relationships

Attentional deficit:

reflects the inability to focus vividly on an object

Psychological capital:

set of personal characteristics that help us flourish and be resilient in the face of adversity/challenging obstacles

Compassion:

shared value that drives people to help others who are suffering

Positivity effect:

the attraction of all living systems toward positive energy(life giving) and away from negative energy (life depleting)

Forgiveness:

the capacity to foster collective abandonment of resentment, bitterness, and blame **it is the adoption of positive forward-looking approaches in response to harm or damage

Flow:

the state of being completely involved in an activity for its own sake

Positive psychological capital (psycap)

those with high levels of this have high levels of hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism (HERO)

Hope:

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

Virtuous leaders promote ___ and ___ and ___

trust and integrity and forgiveness (also greater good)

Mindfulness:

"the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non judgmentally moment by moment"

Virtuousness:

"what individuals and organizations aspire to be when they are at their very best" -only when it is done from the purpose of creating positive deviance (voluntarily done)

Strategies to increase your positivity (4):

-Create high-quality connections 1) the only person in the room 2) support 3) give trust 4) goof off -cultivate kindness -develop distractions -dispute negative self-talk and thoughts

Negative experiences:

activate a survival orientation, which leads us to be more responsive to negative information

2 key inhibitors of mindfulness:

attentional deficit and attentional hyperactivity

Meaningfulness:

belonging to and serving something that you believe is bigger than the self (objective and subjective)

Conception of positive emotions is also known as...

broaden-and-build theory -positive emotions broaden one's attention and cognition, and consequence the individual to build greater emotional well-being as on an upward spiral

Resilient:

capacity to consistently bounce back from adversity and to sustain yourself in demands of positive events

Negative emotions:

cause you to narrow your focus while positive emotions cause you to broaden your thinking

Organizational climate:

employees' perceptions "of formal and informal organizational policies, practices, procedures, and routines." -what they SEE going on at work/beliefs and WHAT is happeing to them

Mindlessness:

is a state of reduced attention. It is expressed in behavior that is rigid, or thoughtless. -it can also be purposive when we refuse to "acknowledge or attend to a thought, emotion, motive, or object of perception."

Virtuous leaders are more focused on...

the greater good than self-interest

2 components of hope

willpower and waypower

Social support types (4):

-esteem support -informational support -social companionship -instrumental support

Conscious capitalism key principles (4):

1) Higher purpose (beyond profit maximization) 2) Stakeholder interdependence (rather than SH-centric) 3) Conscious leadership (instead of "carrots and sticks") 4) Conscious culture (instead of bottom-line focused)

3 values promoting positive OB:

1) restorative justice 2) compassion 3) temperance

Upward spirals of positivity:

where your positive behaviors, feelings, and attitudes feed yours and others in a continual, reinforcing process

Amplifying effect:

positive practices have an amplifying or escalating effect on positive outcomes because of their association with positive emotions and social capital

Positive OB

positive strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance involvement in the workplace

Organizational practices:

refer to host a procedures, policies, practices, routines, and rules that organizations use to get things done

Intention:

represents an end point or desired goal you want to achieve

Flourishing:

represents the extent to which our lives contain PERMA lives results in "goodness, growth, and resilience"

Temperance:

shared belief in showing restraint and control when faced with temptation and provocation. Promotes self-control, humility, and prudence

Restorative justice:

shared belief in the importance of resolving conflict multilaterally through the inclusion of victims, offenders, and all other stakeholders

Develop my PsyCap (4):

-hope development -efficacy development -resilience development -optimism development

Positive emotions lead to desirable behaviors and outcomes (5):

-stronger social relationships -prosocial behaviors -liking of yourself and others -stronger bodies and immune systems -original thinking

Positive emotions ___ and ___

BROADEN your perspective about how to overcome challenges in your life BUILD on themselves, resulting in spreading of positive emotions within yourself and with others around you

HERO characterized by:

Hope Efficacy Resilience Optimism

You need ___ ___ experience to overcome or compensate for each ___

multiple positive negative

Optimists:

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

Positive organizational climates (3):

organizational values, organizational practices, and virtuous leadership

Figure 7.1 - model of positive OB

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Figure 7.2 - the flow of positive influence

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Table 7.1 - POB practices that foster employee positivity

page 221 -provide decision-making discretion -share information -minimize incivility -provide feedback

Table 7.2 - description of the 10 most frequent positive emotions

page 225 -joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration, awe, and love

Figure 7.3 - Creating a climate that fosters positive org behavior

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Prosocial behaviors:

positive acts performed without expecting anything in return

Buffering effect:

positive practices buffer or reduce the impact of negative events and stressors -can do this by enhancing psychological capital