Topics
Positive Relationships
Positive Relationships
Articles
When does respectful engagement with one’s supervisor foster help-seeking behaviors and performance?
Co-constructing a sense of community at work: The emergence of community in coworking spaces
We know who likes us, but not who competes against us
Teaching inpatient medicine – what every physician needs to know
Relationship quality and virtuousness: Emotional carrying capacity as a source of individual and team resilience
Being valued and devalued at work: A social valuing perspective
Care and compassion through an organizational lens: Opening up new possibilities
The mindful negotiator: Strategic emotion management and wellbeing
High quality connections
Understanding compassion capability
Trust, Connectivity, and Thriving: Implications for Innovative Work Behavior
Learning behaviors in the workplace: The role of high quality interpersonal relationships and psychological safety
Linking high-quality interpersonal relationships, psychological safety and learning behaviors in the workplace.
Re-narrating positive relational identities in organizations: Self-narration as a mechanism for strategic emotion management in interpersonal interactions
The contours and consequences of compassion at work
Positive social interactions and the human body at work: Linking organizations and physiology
Giving commitment: Employee support programs and the prosocial sensemaking process
The transformative potential of compassion at work
Enabling positive social capital in organizations
Explaining compassion organizing
Compassion in organizational life
Relationships, layoffs, and organizational resilience
Seeing organizations differently: Three lenses on compassion
At-A-Glance Summaries
Blog Posts
Culture … and things that matter
How to Do More with Less: The Power of Relational Coordination
Planting Your Roots: Tips for Building a Positive Network
Reflecting on the Summer Fellows Program
What Does Mentoring Look Like in Today’s Context?
A Gratitude Letter
What Exactly is the Center for Positive Organizations?
Pain as a Positive Practice?
Can Networking Be Positive?
The Gift We Love to Receive but Forget to Give
High Quality Connections: “Being Our Best As Human Beings”
Selfies or Selfless? The 6 Top Habits of the Happiest (& Most Successful) Social Networkers
What Are You Grateful For?
Did you get your daily diet of LOVE today?
Empathy Versus Perspective-Taking and Personal Change
Work Life Enrichment and Being Willing to Die for the Organization That Would Kill You for Caring
Books
The Strength Switch: How The New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish
Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power That Elevates People and Organizations
Exploring Positive Relationships at Work: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation (Series in Organization and Management)
Energize Your Workplace: How to Create and Sustain High-Quality Connections at Work
CPO Tools
Essays
Events
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
Creating More Inclusive Workplaces in an Era of Discord – The Power of Helping Across Differences
Company-Community Partnerships for Purpose and Sustainable Impact
8th Annual Relational Coordination Research Collaborative (RCRC) Roundtable
2018 Gathering of POS Scholars at AOM
78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Our 2018 Appreciations
2018 Positive Business Conference
Putting High Quality Connections into Practice
Gratitude & Well-Being at Work Conference
U-M Koru Mindfulness Course
+LAB Application Office Hour
+LAB in the Winter Garden
Mindful engagement for positive education in Cambodia
2017 Gathering of POS Scholars at AOM
77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
7th Annual RCRC Roundtable
News
+LAB students help plan first Michigan Ross ‘Wellness Week’ promoting student well-being
Edward C. Chang receives American Psychological Association award
Jane Dutton and Monica Worline’s compassion book mentioned in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Menlo Innovation’s Richard Sheridan interviewed for Forbes article
Gretchen Spreitzer, Peter Bacevice, and Lyndon Garrett’s coworking research shared in HowStuffWorks
Gretchen Spreitzer interviewed for Georgia Tech podcast
Giving workers a ‘voice’ improves retention
Mari Kira, Stacey Scimeca interviewed by Ross Human Capital Club
Menlo Innovations featured in Forbes
O.C. Tanner pens Forbes op-ed about building successful workplace cultures
Sara Soderstrom, Kate Heinze research in Erb publication
Kim Cameron featured in Forbes article
Baker, Cameron, and Dutton’s research cited in Psychology Today
Chris White to appear on the ‘Dr. Nandi Show’
Podcast: How to succeed in the gig world
Kim Cameron, Robert Quinn named AOM Pasmore-Woodman Award winners
Adam Grant on TODAY: Raising resilient, happy kids
Gretchen Spreitzer quoted in CNBC story about women-only co-working spaces
Congratulations! Awakening Compassion wins medal in 2017 Nautilus Book Awards
Urban Ashes receives top honor in University of Michigan positive business competition
Encouraging employees to seek help leads to stronger job performance, new study finds
In Fast Company, Adam Grant writes about research with Wayne Baker, Givitas
Adam Grant co-authors HBR article about employee surveys
Clot Buster wins the 35th annual Pryor-Hale Award at the Michigan Business Challenge
Rob Dube asks: What happens when you help team members find new jobs?
How Sara Soderstrom prepares her students for difficult conversations
Using improv to connect, Chris Murchison’s latest Whil blog
Are you a positive deviant?
Gretchen Spreitzer quoted in The Cut story about feedback for remote workers
Awakening Compassion at Work named a favorite book of 2017 by Greater Good Magazine
Sanjay Saint co-authored an article on mentoring for the Harvard Business Review
Monica Worline interviewed for The onGRIT podcast
Jane Dutton and Julia Lee “say nice things to coworkers” in Harvard Business Review
Join the new High Quality Connections Community of Practice on Facebook
Wayne Baker’s research on reciprocity applied at INSEAD
Lea Waters interviewed for Herald Sun about her new book, The Strength Switch
U-M’s bicentennial and Mary Ceccanese’s focus on gratitude
Jane Dutton and Monica Worline’s book reviewed in Stanford Social Innovation Review
Dave Mayer interviewed on local NPR station about positive management
Please reject my idea
Kim Cameron interviewed on BYU radio
Jane Dutton interviewed on radio station KZUM
How to avoid being a fake positive leader
Barbara Fredrickson’s research featured in New York Times article
Julia Lee interviewed on Michigan Radio about crying at work
Monica Worline interviewed on Plural of You
The business case for compassion
Julia Lee’s Positive Links session in the Michigan Daily
Research by Julia Lee about ‘crying at work’ featured in Forbes
Jessica Amortegui wrote for Women@Forbes about empathy in the workplace
A new resource for leading in trying times
How to heal post-election angst at work
Research by Julia Lee cited in Cornell Chronicle
Scott DeRue inspired by Ross students
Scott Sonenshein on creative gifting
Gretchen Spreitzer talks coworking with Dallas News
How do you lead in trying times? Help us contribute to the dialogue.
How to bridge the political divide at the holiday dinner table
Chris Murchison offers insights on gratitude
Jane Dutton’s HCQ research cited in Huffington Post op-ed
Videos
Magnify Immersion Program: FAQs
Positive Emotional Culture: How Positive Emotions at the Heart of Corporate Culture Affect Your Well-Being and Your Company’s Bottom Line
Creating More Inclusive Workplaces in an Era of Discord
Healthy Minds: Addressing Mental Health and Help-Seeking Behavior in College Student Populations
Company-Community Partnerships for Purpose and Sustainable Impact
Technology and Happiness: The Social and Emotional Costs of Being Constantly Connected
Clash! Bridging Cultural Divides in the Workplace
Putting High Quality Connections into Practice
The Paying it Forward Paradox
Relational Coordination – Transforming Relationships for High Performance
How To Deal With Jerks At Work
