Organizational Behavior- Chpt 7- Cosby

Optimists

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

Prosocial Behaviors

positive acts performed without expecting anything in return

Buffering Effect

positive practices buffer or reduce the impact of negative events and stressors

Amplifying Effect

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

Organizational Practices

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

Restorative Justice

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

Attentional Deficit

reflects the inability to focus vividly on an object

Virtuousness

represents "what individuals and organizations aspire to be when they are at their very best"

Intention

represents an end point or desired goal you want to achieve

Flourishing

represents the extent to which our lives contain PERMA

Mindlessness

"a state or reduced attention"; "thoughtless"

Flow

"is defined as the state of being completely involved in an activity for its own sake"

Positivity Effect

"is the attraction of all living systems toward positive energy and away from negative energy, or toward that which is life giving and away from that which is life depleting

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 resent moment, and non-judgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment

Hope

Willpower (have a goal and the determination to achieve it) + Waypower (need to see one or more alternative paths to achieve your goal, even when faced with adversity)

Temperance

a shared belief in showing restraint and control when faced with temptation and provocation; promotes self-control, humility, and prudence

Compassion

a shared value that drives people to help others who are suffering

Conscious Capitalism

are those seeking awareness of the effects of their actions and implementing practices that benefit both human beings and the environment

Meaningfulness

defined as "belonging to and serving something that you believe is bigger than the self"

Forgiveness

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

Organizational Climate

defined as employees' perceptions "of formal and informal organizational policies, practices, procedures, and routines"

Attentional Hyperactivity

happens when our minds are racing or wandering, resulting in compulsive daydreaming or fantasizing

Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap)

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

Positive OB (POB)

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

Social Support

the amount of perceived helpfulness derived form social relationships

Resilient

the capacity to consistently bounce back from adversity and to sustain yourself 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)

Upward Spirals of Positivity

where your positive behaviors, feelings, and attitudes feed your own and those of others in a continual, reinforcing process