PSY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Positive Psychology, Autotelic, Organisation Climate
Document Summary
Luthans promoted positive organizational behavior study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement in today"s workplace. Positive organizational scholarship deals with positive outcomes, processes, and attributes of organizations and their members . Flow sensation of optimal feeling when they act with total involvement. Challenge-skill balance, merging of action and awareness, paradox of control, loss of self-consciousness, clarity of goals, unambiguous feedback, high degree of concentration on the task at hand, transformation of time, autotelic experience. Flow is associated with in-role and extra-role performance. Flow benefits individuals and organizations, individuals are more spontaneous and creative. Engagement is a state involving energy, involvement, and efficacy. Engagement is positive state of mind comprising: vigour (high energy), absorption, and dedication (involvement to the work). Love motivational state in which the goal is to preserve and promote the well-being of the valued object .
