On being positive: Concerns and counterpoints

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Fineman, S
• 署名单位: University of Bath
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 270-291
• 关键词: EMOTIONAL LABOR; PSYCHOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; empowerment; management; intelligence; performance; POSTMODERN; WORKPLACE; leadership

摘要

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.