Critical theory and Positive Organizational Scholarship
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Arran Caza, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This chapter uses a critical theory perspective to consider previous work in positive organizational scholarship (POS). Questions raised by the critical management studies (CMS) concepts of performativity, denaturalization, and reflexivity highlight areas in which POS could benefit from a more critical approach. Specifically, this chapter calls on POS to be more explicit about its intended aims, to be careful of universalizing notions of positivity, and to consider the implications of some its seemingly innocent choices. Specific examples of how POS has done well and poorly in these areas are offered, as a first step toward an informative dialogue between POS and CMS. Such a dialogue is important, both for the likelihood of POS achieving its stated aim of creating beneficial change and for the continuing relevance of POS in the larger field of organizational studies.
Critical theory and Positive Organizational Scholarship
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Additional Information
- Publication
- K.S. Cameron & G.M. Spreitzer (Eds.) Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship (pp. 965-978). New York, NY: Oxford University Press
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- Critical management studies, performativity, reflexivity, denaturalization