Topics
Positive Ethics & Virtues
Positive Ethics & Virtues
Articles
Leaders matter morally: The role of ethical leadership in shaping employee moral cognition and misconduct
The pursuit of success in academia: Plato’s ghost asks “what then?”
Cross-cultural research and positive organizational scholarship
Polluted morality: Air pollution predicts criminal activity and unethical behavior
Commitments and appeals to make a better world: The global compact, Laudato Si’ and our future
The real mystery of positive business: A response from Christian faith
Trickle-Down Effects of Supervisor Perceptions of Interracial Justice: A Moderated Mediation Approach
Relationship quality and virtuousness: Emotional carrying capacity as a source of individual and team resilience
Why employees do bad things: Moral disengagement and unethical organizational behavior
Who displays ethical leadership and why does it matter? An examination of antecedents and consequences of ethical leadership
Leader mistreatment, employee hostility, and deviant behaviors: Integrating self-uncertainty and thwarted needs perspectives on deviance
Breaking rules for the right reasons?: An investigation of pro-social rule breaking
Virtuousness as a source of happiness in organizations
Linking ethical leadership to employee performance: The roles of leader-member exchange, self-efficacy, and organizational identification
Why good guys finish last: The role of justification motives, cognition, and emotion in predicting retaliation against whistleblowers
Responsible leadership as virtuous leadership
Examining the link between ethical leadership and employee misconduct: The mediating role of ethical climate
Guest editor’s introduction: On understanding ethical behavior and decision making: A behavioral ethics approach
From proscriptions to prescriptions: A call for including prosocial behavior in behavioral ethics
How low does ethical leadership flow? Test of a trickle-down model
Making ethical climate a mainstream management topic: A review, critique, and prescription for the empirical research on ethical climate
Making sense of organizational actions in response to tragedy: Virtue frames, organizational identification, and organizational attachment
Organizational healing: Lived virtuousness amidst organizational crisis
Values and virtues in organizations
Good or not bad: Standards and ethics in managing change
The amplifying and buffering effects of virtuousness in downsized organizations
How to play to your strengths
Composing the reflected best self portrait: Building pathways for becoming extraordinary in work organizations
Ethics and ethos: The buffering and amplifying effects of ethical behavior and virtuousness
Exploring the relationships between organizational virtuousness and performance
Ethics, Virtuousness, and Constant Change
Books
CPO Tools
Essays
Events
2025 Online Gathering of POS Scholars
An Evening Dedicated to Dignity and Noble Work
2022 Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) Research Conference
2024 Positive Business Conference Amplified
2024 Gathering of POS Scholars at AOM
A More Just Future: A Keynote Address from Dolly Chugh
Where Does DEI go from Here?
Beware of Black Boxes: Identify Signs of an Ethical Collapse with Theranos Whistleblower Erika Cheung
2023 Gathering of POS Scholars at AOM
2022 Gathering of POS Scholars at AOM
Antiracism, Allyship, and Authenticity: Building Internal Capacity for Institutional Change
Thrive in Trying Times Teach-Out
The Psychology of Eliciting Cooperation: Honoring the Legacy of Anatol Rapoport with a Conversation on Semantics, Culture, and a Logic of Appropriateness
Authenticity on One’s Own Terms
79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
2019 Gathering of POS Scholars at AOM
Sixth World Congress on Positive Psychology
2019 Positive Business Conference
Company-Community Partnerships for Purpose and Sustainable Impact
2018 Gathering of POS Scholars at AOM
78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Our 2018 Appreciations
2018 Positive Business Conference
Mindful engagement for positive education in Cambodia
News
Putting Humanity Back in the Human Enterprise
The psychology of fairness: Why some Americans don’t believe the election results
Changing the frame: Family photos on your desk could make you more ethical on the job
Unleashing the power of feminine traits in the workplace
Sharing experiences and emotions amidst racial unrest
What if you’re planning to quit, but you get laid off instead?
Kim S. Cameron discusses humane downsizing in Forbes interview
Unlocking resources with a positive lens
Kim S. Cameron, Andrew J. Hoffman discuss positive leadership on Harvesting Happiness podcast
Andrew Hoffman tells Michigan Radio cultural shift needed to impact climate change
Dishonesty can have a long term effect on our ability to interact with others
Lying lowers EQ, says Inc. article highlighting Julia Lee’s research
Shirli Kopelman cited to New York Times article
Kim Cameron discusses Positive Organizational Scholarship with Noreen Ehrlich
David Mayer talks about ethics of the wealthy and powerful on NPR affiliate
Follow the leader: Ethical supervisors can impact workers’ thoughts and actions
Rich and unethical: David Mayer’s perspective in The Conversation
Edward C. Chang receives American Psychological Association award
Owens Corning named one of the 2019 “World’s Most Ethical Companies”
Mari Kira, Stacey Scimeca interviewed by Ross Human Capital Club
Kim Cameron featured in Forbes article
Forecast 2019: Gender and the ‘nice’ penalty at work
Violating gender stereotypes harms men at work
David Mayer pens HBR post about leaders who ignore unethical behavior
What Mister Rogers teaches us about moral leadership
Lessons on how to accelerate an ‘impact industry’
Chris White quoted in USA Today about employee activism
Chris White, Jerry Davis, and Andrew Hoffman win teaching award for the world’s best business courses
Urban Ashes receives top honor in University of Michigan positive business competition
Shirli Kopelman discusses pay injustices on popular podcast
Clot Buster wins the 35th annual Pryor-Hale Award at the Michigan Business Challenge
Polluted morality: New research shows air pollution increases unethical behavior and crime
Are you a positive deviant?
David Mayer quoted in LA Times article about sexual harassment
Alison Blake-Davis interviewed, Center for Positive Organizations cited in Fortune
Dave Mayer quoted for Business Insider article
Jane Dutton and Monica Worline interviewed on NPR’s WEMU about the benefits of compassion in the workplace
David Mayer quoted in Washington Post article about CEOs who stuck by President Trump
Dave Mayer penned Fortune op-ed about Kenneth Frazier’s resignation from President Trump’s manufacturing council
Why men often unintentionally undermine women they’re trying to support
Cascade Engineering was featured on Huffington Post
Christopher Myers co-authored a Harvard Business Review article on health care and patient outcomes
To do business, you better get positive
+LAB alum and his revolutionary startup just can’t stop winning competitions
Center for Positive Organizations gets a nod in Fortune
+LAB fellow Molly Hope blogs about her MAP team’s work in Nepal
Dave Mayer spoke with Crain’s Detroit on business ethics
David Mayer writes for @FastCompany about happiness and others
Monica Worline blogs @ThriveGlobal about compassion’s strength
Dave Mayer interviewed by Washington Post about Ivanka Trump’s White House role
Healing spaces: Expressing values vs. being political at work
New research by Adam Grant featured in HBR’s Big Idea
Washington Post quotes Dave Mayer on ethics and leadership
A new resource for leading in trying times
Works by Adam Grant, Scott Sonenshein, Christine Porath featured in Washington Post book list
Everyday courage in organizations
Wally Hopp talks income inequality – and how business can do something about it
How do you lead in trying times? Help us contribute to the dialogue.
Bob Quinn talks post-election experiences with NPR’s Lisa Barry
Jason Wilburn interviewed on “Making Positive Psychology Work” podcast
Dave Mayer unpacks the “moral logic of third-party voting” in Fast Company
David Mayer on the benefits of social comparison in Fast Company
Logitech named winner of 2016 Positive Business Project, an annual competition presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations
Julia Lee receives Academy of Management 2016 symposium award
David Mayer speaks to Michigan Radio about Flint water crisis
The Biggest Reason We Steal Other People’s Ideas
How to Become Productively Generous
Fewer are behaving badly at work, survey finds. What changed?
Is It Wrong to Plagiarize from an Email?
Chris Peterson’s Unfinished Masterwork — A Strengths-Based Perspective of Mental Illness
Extreme Generosity: Give a Kidney to a Stranger?
The Generosity Family Project: Do Good and Feel Good
How to Bring People to the Common Good: What Authentic Leaders Learn About Higher Purpose
Compassionate Organizations Quiz
The Teaching and Practice of POS, Part V: Transcending Your Own Culture
Saying no to the boss: Why it’s essential
Videos
2022 POS Research Conference: Day 2 Afternoon Sessions “Experiential POS Practices to Carry Us Forward”
2022 POS Research Conference: Day 2 Morning Panel “Using POS to Understand the State of the World”
2022 POS Research Conference: Award for Outstanding Published Article in POS and Winners’ Keynote
2022 POS Research Conference: Opening Sessions
Antiracism, Allyship, and Authenticity: Building Internal Capacity for Institutional Change
Authenticity on One’s Own Terms
2019 POS Research Conference: Founders Panel
2019 POS Research Conference: Looking Towards the Future
2019 POS Research Conference Teaching Workshop: Positive Relationships at Work
2015 POS Research Conference PhD Panel
Create Opportunity from Crisis
