Positive psychology at work: A conceptual review, state-of-practice assessment, and a look ahead

Conceptualising inclusive talent management: potential, possibilities and practicalities

“…It helps us to appreciate human development and optimal functioning by focussing on dynamic change processes in people (Lopez and Snyder 2009). Like FITM, positive psychology is primarily focussed on applying the particular talents that a person has by providing ongoing opportunities to display them and on understanding the 'best' of the human condition (Dries 2013;Mills, Fleck and Kozikowski 2013). If organizations can demonstrate that they are sincere in their attempts to enable identification and deployment of each employee's strengths then a likely response by employees is one of enhanced happiness, fulfilment and well-being among other positive affective states.…”

The Application of Salutogenesis to Work

“…Fredrickson, 2001;Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000) and positive occupational health psychology (cf. Bakker & Derks, 2010), individual-level interventions strengthen the awareness and competency of proactively building a resourceful environment and applying one's strengths and virtues to enhance positive well-being and health-see for example the self-tuning approach in this chapter (Vinje, 2007), the values in action (VIA) (Harzer & Ruch, 2012;Peterson & Seligman, 2004), job crafting (Tims & Bakker, 2010;Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001), psychological capital development (Luthans, Avey, Avolio, Norman, & Combs, 2006), mindfulness training (Hülsheger, Alberts, Feinholdt, & Lang, 2013), and positive psychology at work in general (Bono, Glomb, Shen, Kim, & Koch, 2013;Mills, Fleck, & Kozikowski, 2013).…”

Positive Organizational Ethics: Cultivating and Sustaining Moral Performance

“…In the Journal of Positive Psychology, Donaldson and Ko (2010) outline how research in POS and POB provides a practical knowledge base for making significant improvements in the quality of work life and organizational effectiveness. Nonetheless, as Mills et al (2013) underscore, there is much more work to be done. The time has come to apply positive topics and concepts directly to the study and advancement of business ethics.…”