Positive OB
willpower
Individuals have ---------- when they can see one or more alternative paths to achieve their goal, even when faced with adversity.
Cognitive Reframing
The action of disputing negative self-talk and thoughts by implementing the ABCDE process. (Adversity, Beliefs, Consequences, Dispute, and Energized)
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. Requires effort b/c brain works in way that detract from staying focused. Improves interpersonal communication and requires attentional balance.
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:
Social Support
Amount of perceived helpfulness derived from social relationships. (esteem support, informational support, social companionship, instrumental support.)
Meaningfulness
Belonging to and serving something that you believe is bigger than the self.
1. ADVERSITY - identify something that is causing you stress/negative emotions. 2. List the negative BELIEFS you have about problem. 3. Identify the CONSEQUENCES of your beliefs. 4. DISPUTE beliefs. 5. Describe how ENERGIZED you feel at the moment.
How do you implement the ABCDE process when cognitively reframing?
Flow
Individuals who are in a state of "----" are completely involved in an activity for its own sake.
Positive Emotions Engagement Relationships Meaning Achievement (PERMA)
List out the five elements of Well-Being.
Attentional Hyperactivity
Mind wandering/racing, resulting in compulsive daydreaming or fantasizing.
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. Associated with higher overall job performance, less burnout, increased commitment, higher job satisfaction, and fewer sick days.
Attentional Deficit and Attentional Hyperactivity
There are two inhibitors of mindfulness are:
Negative Emotions
Type of emotions that are limiting and spur you to act in narrow or specific ways
creating high quality connections cultivating kindness developing distractions disputing negative self-talk and thoughts
We can increase our positive experiences and decrease our negative ones by ...
Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap)
When people have high levels of hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism (HERO).
Adversity
difficulties; misfortune.
Restorative Justice, Compassion, and Temperance.
Global values that are essential for promoting POB include:
Virtuous Leadership
Helps individuals, groups, and organizations to elevate, enrich, and flourish. Traits and individual differences that underlie ---------- ----------- include focusing on the greater good, trust, integrity, and forgiveness.
Attentional Deficit
Inability to focus vividly on an object.
waypower
Individuals have --------- when they have a goal and the determination to achieve it.
PsyCap
------- is a form of capital that can be developed, and developing one ------ component often helps to develop the others.
American Psychological Association "10"
1. Making connections and building your social support network. 2. Avoiding the tendency to view crises as insurmountable challenges. 3. Accepting that change is a natural and unavoidable part of life. 4. Moving towards your (realistic) goals. 5. Taking decisive actions that will help you face your challenges. 6. Looking for opportunities for self-discovery. 7. Nurturing a positive view of yourself and your abilities. 8. Keeping things in perspective and in context. 9. Maintaining a hopeful outlook on life. 10. Taking care of yourself.
Mindlessness
A state of reduced attention expressed in behavior that is rigid or thoughtless. Typified by a failure to control emotions and requires minimal information processing. Associated with poor mental and physical health.
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.
Positive businesses do well by being profitable and performing at a high level, but they also do good by making the well-being of their employees and other stakeholders a priority.
Positive businesses do well & positive businesses they do good. What is the difference between these two statements?
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
constraining counterproductive thinking and mind wandering.
Practicing mindfulness helps you focus your mind on productive activities while
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.
buffer us from stressors and provide resources that enable us to more effectively get things done.
Relationships are a key component of PERMA and well-being since they .... (2 things)
Organizational Values
Represent the ideals that are endorsed, shared, and supported by the organization as a whole.
Efficacy
Represents your confidence in your ability to do something
Positive Emotions
Resources that fuel individual, group, and organizational success Help build social, psychological, and physical resources Combat negative emotions Broaden mindset and opens you to consider new things Have benefits which endure over long periods of time
Emotional-Contagion Effect
States that positive emotions (as well as negative emotions) are contagious. Also state that positive emotions can offset negative emotions.
Cognitive Reframing Mindfulness Creating High-Quality Connections Cultivating Kindness Gratefulness
Strategies to Increase Positivity
one has a self-directed "achieving" life
The achievement component of PERMA pertains to the extent to which...