Positive leadership action framework: Simply doing good and doing well

Frontiers in Psychology

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Dulce M. Redín¹  Marcel Meyer¹  Arménio Rego² 

[1] Department of Business, University of Navarra;Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa;Business Research Unit, ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

关键词: positive leadership;    virtue ethics;    Positive organizational scholarship;    Practical wisdom;    Organizational virtuousness;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.977750

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This article presents the Positive Leadership Action Framework (PLAF) to structure Positive Leadership (PL). The novelty of the PLAF is that it incorporates the connections of PL to positive outcomes (financial and economic performance and social well-being) and organizational virtuousness. Also, it acknowledges its conditional nature on the virtues to achieve flourishing within the organization and society at large. We argue that the leader’s actions function as the engine for positive change within the organization, bridging the gap between individual virtues and organizational virtuousness and creating a feedback loop among both. To develop a positive organization, a leader needs to create positive assumptions among (and about) coworkers, positively impact the personal and professional development of employees, and balance positive formal and informal conditions at work. To do so, it is a sine qua non condition that the positive leader fosters his/her personal development by exercising the virtues and developing practical wisdom. In this way, the positive leader automatically provides followers with a vision of the final end towards the common good and achieves to set his/her organization on a pathway towards excellence.

【 授权许可】

CC BY