On Being Positive: Concerns and Counterpoints
审视组织理论中“积极”新人文主义转向的吸引力和缺陷,评估其道德与文化基础,并探讨其在赋权、情商等工作场所项目中的应用,最后提出重构积极学术的建议。
In this article I examine the attractions and shortcomings of the “positive” neohumanisitic turn in organizational theorizing and how positivity might be developed. I evaluate positivity's moral and cultural underpinnings and claims to separate positive from negative emotions, and I explore the deployment of positiveness in HRM programs of empowerment, emotional intelligence, and fun at work. I conclude with suggestions on how positive scholarship could be reconfigured in light of the present critique and against the emancipatory ideas of critical organizational theory.