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Workplace Bullying and Harassment and Positive Organizational Scholarship

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Abstract

The last decade has seen positive organizational scholarship (POS) coalesce from a general notion in positive psychology to a coherent set of propositions and an academically delineated topic. Central to the recent development of POS has been the partnership of Gretchen Spreitzer and Kim Cameron which has drawn a diverse range of scholars into the POS topic (Cameron & Spreitzer, 2013). Workplace bullying and harassment are located firmly in the negative elements of social science, with scholars tracking negative behaviour together with negative impact on individuals, groups and organizations. Current gaps in bullying and harassment include effective measures to tackle such negative consequences. This chapter reaches towards POS from the field of workplace bullying and harassment to ask how (if at all) each field might benefit from links and cross-fertilization.

The chapter begins with the development of POS from positive psychology, provides a definition and exemplars POS approaches within the work context. The second section begins with a critique of POS, which challenges the validity of separating positive from negative, and progresses with the inclusion of negative issues (workplace bullying and harassment) to sit alongside positive issues. Some areas in the field of bullying and harassment have included positive elements, such as coping mechanisms for stressful bullying experiences, and an increasing number of researchers include positive and negative constructs in the same study. The last substantial section examines how POS constructs could extend our scholarship in workplace bullying and harassment, and this is followed by a call for changes to enable a strong future for both topics.

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Rayner, C. (2019). Workplace Bullying and Harassment and Positive Organizational Scholarship. In: D'Cruz, P., Noronha, E., Notelaers, G., Rayner, C. (eds) Concepts, Approaches and Methods. Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5334-4_9-1

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