{Rich, Lepine, & Crawford, 2010. Job Engagement: Antecedents and Effects on Job Performance. Academy of Management Journal Vol. 53, No. 3} Explaining performance Performance has been explained with emphasis on affect or cognition or the motives for physical persistence in…
{Koopmans et al., 2013. Development of an individual work performance questionnaire. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management Vol. 62 No.1} Introduction Individual work performance (IWP) is employee behaviors or actions relevant to the organization’s goals. The focus is on…
Introduction An organization’s prevailing culture affects important outcomes such as commitment and performance. For example, support and innovation culture dimensions lead to high organizational commitment. In addition, cultural values and attitudes and human resources practices influence employees’ work effort and…
Job Satisfaction: Crafting the Perfect Job {Biswas-Diener & Dean, 2007. Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients.} Jobs fill our days with work. Inevitably, work-related issues and complaints amount. As a result, people seek…
Designing Positive Interventions {Donaldson, Chen, & Donaldson, 2021. Designing Positive Organizational Psychology Interventions. In Donaldson & Chen, (Ed.) Positive Organizational Psychology Interventions: Design and Evaluation. John Wiley & Sons} Positive organizational scholarship (POS) is focused on understanding the drivers of…
{Donaldson, van Zyl, & Donaldson, 2022. PERMA +4: A Framework for Work-Related Wellbeing, Performance, and Positive Organizational Psychology 2.0. Front. Psychol. 12:817244} Introduction Positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishments (PERMA) are a robust framework for measuring, managing, and developing…
Building Positive Organizations {van Woerkom, 2021. Building Positive Organizations: A Typology of Positive Psychology Interventions. Front. Psychol. 12:769782.} Introduction Different types of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) can strengthen each other. For sustainable contribution to workers’ optimal functioning, PPIs must comprise…
The Task of Leadership The leader’s tasks are many; to make sense of a vast array of information, engage in new forms of relationships, achieve ambitious business results, and generate collective energy and engagement toward demanding goals. The positive leader…
{MacKie, 2016. Strength-based Leadership Coaching in Organizations.} Key components of coaching for positive leadership development in organizations Before beginning any leadership development process, assess the readiness of the individual and the organization for a strength-based approach to leadership development. How…
{Malinga, Stander, & Nell, 2019. Positive Leadership: Moving Towards an Integrated Definition and Interventions. In Van Zyl & Rothmann (eds.), Theoretical Approaches to Multi-Cultural Positive Psychological Interventions.} A critical review of the positive leadership literature suggests that positive leadership in…
What does it take to be an effective leader? What mediates leadership effectiveness in a particular context? Are there universally effective practices? How do people learn important leadership skills and perspectives? How can people develop the skills and perspectives necessary…
{Harrison, 2017. The Foundations of Mindfulness: How to Cultivate Attention, Good Judgment, and Tranquility} Emotion at the Atomic Level: Valence and Action Tendencies “How does a monk observe the valences of phenomena? When experiencing a pleasant feeling, he knows: “This…
Satisfaction with the Past, Optimism about the Future, Happiness in the Present Positive psychology coaching (PPC) is concerned with building the states that make life worth living, leading a joyful life through experiencing positive emotions, leading an engaged life through…
The Idea in 100 Words (or less). People are motivated to initiate change when they face problems. Still, what they seek are happiness and fulfillment. Happiness has benefits in all life areas. It is a resource and a positive capacity…
Emotional feelings arise when a person-situation or person-interaction is relevant to one’s wellbeing. The person processes the encounter consciously or unconsciously, which produces a perception that attaches meaning to the experience, accompanied by physiological changes, cognitive processing, a subjective experience,…
{Bachkirova & Borrington, 2018, The Limits and Possibilities of a Person-Centred Approach In Coaching Through the Lens of Adult Development Theories. Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, May 2018.} Introduction The person-centered approach (PCA) is…
A sustainable, intentional human system needs some enduring yet adapting and transforming core elements. Adapting, since the environment is continually changing; transforming, since a living system is always in dynamic equilibrium, either positively growing or decaying, both leading to transformations.…
Use these Guiding principles in applying the humanistic approach to coaching to provide a framework for the coaching context and associated tasks for the coach. A model of a {learning} cycle of change from the humanistic perspective can be described…
Originally developed for therapists’ use in psychotherapy, these concepts are easily extrapolated for relationships such as coaching and translated into coaching practice. Growth-Oriented View of the Person An optimistic view of the person entails believing individuals can use their experiences…
What is coaching about? Coaching is about human growth and change. It has its roots in traditions and disciplines that strive to support growth. The humanistic perspective is a philosophical foundation for coaching providing values and assumptions. Ingredients of executive…