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- Title
THE CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL VALUE OF A POSITIVE LENS: AN INVITATION TO ORGANIZATIONAL SCHOLARS TO DEVELOP NOVEL RESEARCH QUESTIONS.
- Authors
SPREITZER, GRETCHEN; MYERS, CHRISTOPHER G.; KOPELMAN, SHIRLI; MAYER, DAVID M.
- Abstract
This article articulates howa positive lens contributes to organizational studies by stimulating novel research questions to foster flourishing in individuals, teams, and organizations. We highlight how researchers have used a positive lens to transform the kinds of questions that are asked in threedomains of organizational research: resources, learning, and ethics. We then drawout and illuminate three pathways indicative of applying a positive lens: resource unlocking, capacity creating, and strength building. In closing, we invite scholars to consider applying a positive lens to their own area of inquiry to bolster understanding of flourishingwithinandacross organizations by offering a set of questions to help themdetermine if their own domains of inquiry might be ripe for a positive lens.
- Subjects
RESEARCH questions; SCHOLARS; ORGANIZATIONAL research
- Publication
Academy of Management Perspectives, 2021, Vol 35, Issue 3, p517
- ISSN
1558-9080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/amp.2015.0056