Positive Organizational Psychology: Evidence-Informed Applications - Paperback

by Stewart I. Donaldson (Editor), Christopher L. Chen (Editor)

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Apply evidence-based positive psychology to strengthen organizational performance and well-being

Now in its Second Edition, Positive Organizational Psychology: Evidence-Informed Applications delivers a rigorous examination of how positive psychology principles translate into measurable workplace outcomes. Organizations continue to struggle with sustaining employee engagement, fostering resilience, and aligning human capital strategies with performance objectives. This updated volume addresses those challenges by presenting research-grounded frameworks that connect individual well-being with organizational effectiveness, offering a structured empirical foundation for intervention design and implementation.

Positive Organizational Psychology provides updated evidence-informed tools and methodologies for diagnosing organizational strengths, designing targeted interventions, and evaluating their impact. This Second Edition reflects advances in the field since the prior edition, incorporating recent research findings and expanded coverage of applied strategies. Readers gain access to frameworks for building thriving work environments where psychological capital, engagement, and sustained performance reinforce one another through carefully designed, research-supported organizational development practices.

Written for organizational psychologists, human resources professionals, managers, executives, and organizational development practitioners, this volume equips readers with evidence-based tools needed to create workplaces where people and performance thrive together. Advanced graduate students studying organizational behavior and psychology will also find it a valuable scholarly resource grounded in applied research.

Author Biography

STEWART I. DONALDSON, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor, President of the Claremont Flourishing Center and the Western Positive Psychology Association, and Executive Director of the Claremont Evaluation Center and the Evaluators' Institute (TEI) at Claremont Graduate University.

CHRISTOPHER L. CHEN, PhD, is the Assistant Director of the Los Angeles Center of Excellence for Labor Market Research. Dr. Chen leads multiple teams of advanced researchers in conducting workforce intelligence for Los Angeles County and the California Community College System. His work guides economic and workforce development in the region.