In this article, the authors develop a definition of positive deviance, a foundational construct in positive organizational scholarship. They offer a normative definition of positive deviance: intentional behaviors that depart from the norms of a referent group in honorable ways. The authors contrast this normative perspective on deviance with statistical, supraconformity, and reactive perspect...

Daily hassles are a constant in daily life at work. It is shown that these kind of daily events affectdiverse outcomes (e.g. well-being). In this study, we aim explore whether the relationships betweendaily hassles, mindfulness, work engagement and creativity are linear or nonlinear ones. To achievethat, we conducted a diary study through five working consecutive days within a sampl...

In four studies we examine whether and why respectfully engaging with other organizational members can augment creativity for individuals and teams. We develop and test a model in which respectful engagement among organizational members facilitates relational information processing, which in turn results in enhanced creative behaviors. We found a similar pattern across all four studies – respec...

Creativity can be considered one of the key competencies for the twenty-first century. It provides us with the capacity to deal with the opportunities and challenges that are part of our complex and fast-changing world. The question as to what facilitates creative cognition-the ability to come up with creative ideas, problem solutions and products-is as old as the human sciences, and various me...

this question has always been put forward in the mind of curious people why some countries have developed termed in spite of very few natural resources and facilities while other countries have not developed in spite of having more suitable resources and facilities. various factors such as economy, culture, geography, etc. are perhaps a background to answer this question, but there is a more im...

This paper builds on prior scholarly works by examining the relationship between organizing paradox (formalization and decentralization), organizational levels of learning paradoxes, i.e. exploration exploitation, firms’ outcomes (organizational creativity, resilience energy). Using data from 98 executives 325 senior employees working across a diverse range firms operating in Middle East, findi...