Academy of Management Review Vol. 31 No. 2 2006
On Being Positive: Concerns and Counterpoints
Abstract
In this article I examine the attractions and shortcomings of the “positive” neohumanisitic turn in organizational theorizing and how positivity might be developed. I evaluate positivity's moral and cultural underpinnings and claims to separate positive from negative emotions, and I explore the deployment of positiveness in HRM programs of empowerment, emotional intelligence, and fun at work. I conclude with suggestions on how positive scholarship could be reconfigured in light of the present critique and against the emancipatory ideas of critical organizational theory.
- DOI
- 10.5465/amr.2006.20208680
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 270-291
- Language
- en
- Sources
- ris:amr.ris crossref openalex