POS at AOM! Gathering of POS Scholars and More

July 15, 2014

By Janet Max

Are you a POS scholar?  Are you attending the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management?

AOM 2014 features more than 25 sessions with elements related to Positive Organizational Scholarship.  Sessions include  “Thrive! Energizing Ourselves and Others as Academics,” “The Conditions for Compassion,” and “An HR Perspective on Coping and Stress in the Workplace.” See a complete list of POS-related sessions for more opportunities to dive into POS at AOM.  The Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) Microcommunity has also provided a list of sessions relevant specifically to PRW topics.

2014 Gathering of POS Scholars – Practicing POS: Exploring ways of bringing the positive into research and practiceMore than 100 POS Scholars will gather to build community, connect with research collaborators, learn about new developments in the field of POS, and generate energy about the realized and imagined possibilities created by using a Positive Organizational Scholarship lens.  Sue Ashford (University of Michigan) and Emily Heaphy (Boston University) are convening the 2014 Gathering of POS Scholars, Sunday, August 3, 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. More information and a link to the sign up form are included in the Invitation to the 2014 Gathering of POS Scholars.