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April 13, 2016
CPO faculty member David M. Mayer writes about success and happiness in his latest leadership column in FastCompany, “Why Your Idea Of Success Might Be Making You Miserable.” Much of Mayer’s research focuses on ethical leadership in organizations and how leaders in business can make meaningful, moral, and lasting impressions on those around them. The article looks at research […]
April 12, 2016
Image source: Deposit Photos 4 Leverage Points for Being a Positive Leader When meeting with leaders interested in building positive organizations, one question recurs more often than the others: “where do we start?” As a manager myself, I can certainly relate to this. Good advice is seemingly limitless. Help to put it all together, however, […]
March 29, 2016
Research by Jane Dutton and Ashley Hardin, in conjunction with Abraham Carmeli of Tel Aviv University, demonstrates that how people engage with their colleagues has an impact beyond what they may expect. In fact, respectfully engaging with colleagues actually generates higher levels of creativity at both the individual and team levels. In a more demanding […]
March 28, 2016
Companies have a pressing need for good leaders. Professor Sue Ashford shows you don’t have to wait for special training to become one. What is positive business? It’s the idea that businesses can and should create not just economic value, but also offer great places to work, be good neighbors, and help solve some of […]
March 24, 2016
David M. Mayer, associate professor of management and organizations, has been selected to receive the 2016 Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. The award recognizes the “scholarly achievement of an early-mid-career scholar” who received their PhD no more than 12 years ago. The award will be presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of […]
March 17, 2016
Research by CPO Post-Doctoral Fellow Julia Lee and her colleagues was featured in an article from The Atlantic entitled, “A Mystery of Our Time: The People Who Enjoy Commuting.” The article examines research surveys about daily activities—including commuting to work—and summarizes the range of mixed emotions toward this particular task. “Commuting is, at the very least then, a […]
March 17, 2016
Ashley E. Hardin, a Michigan Ross PhD candidate and CPO doctoral research fellow, has been named a 2016-17 Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. The fellowship supports exceptional doctoral students whose dissertation research is “unusually creative, ambitious, and risk-taking.”
March 16, 2016
In David Mayer‘s latest Fast Company column, “Here’s How Self-Centeredness Can Make You More Considerate,” he explains how “thinking about yourself—in one way in particular—might actually make you more considerate of others.” Mayer explores the history of legacies; in particular the account of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, whose legacy established the Nobel prizes, as well as several modern […]
March 10, 2016
Employees who expose unethical behavior in organizations often face retaliation for speaking up. But company leaders who blow the whistle on such activity are less likely to be sanctioned, University of Michigan researchers say. In fact, in some cases, leaders can even be ostracized if they don’t speak up, they say. “It’s really more nuanced […]
March 9, 2016
Huffington Post Great Work Cultures blog by Chris White.
The sun was shining as Katie set off for her first day at work on her dream job. Heading to the office with a brisk walk, a little smile, and the flutter of butterflies in the stomach, everything seemed bright about the day to come.
March 3, 2016
CPO founding members Jane Dutton and Robert E. Quinn are featured in this video by the Positive Psychology People, a group of academics coming together with the mission to “bring together people from different ages, genders, nationalities and cultures with a common aim – to make a positive difference in the world through the application […]
February 29, 2016
An article in Youth Magazine, “Apple Watch, Fitbit, Can Make Exercise Less Fun,” explains a new Journal of Consumer Research study that found “measuring an activity, not necessarily exercise, can decrease a person’s motivation to do it.” The article debates whether or not these gadgets can act as motivation to get fit or do just the opposite. Michelle Segar, […]