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Organizational Healing: Lived Virtuousness Amidst Organizational Crisis

In: The Virtuous Organization Insights from Some of the World's Leading Management Thinkers

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  • Edward H. Powley

    (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)

  • Kim S. Cameron

    (University of Michigan, USA)

Abstract

This chapter examines how organizations heal after major trauma. The authors introduce the concept of organizational healing and differentiate it from resilience, adaptation, and hardiness. Healing refers to the actual work of repairing and mending the collective social fabric of an organization after experiencing a threat or shock to its system. Using a qualitative research method, the chapter uncovers four themes of organizational healing that reflect an organization's capacity for virtuousness: reinforcing the priority of the individual, fostering high quality connections, strengthening a family culture, and initiating ceremonies and rituals. These themes emerged from narrative accounts of the shooting incident in a Midwestern university.

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  • Edward H. Powley & Kim S. Cameron, 2008. "Organizational Healing: Lived Virtuousness Amidst Organizational Crisis," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Charles C Manz & Kim S Cameron & Karen P Manz & Robert D Marx (ed.), The Virtuous Organization Insights from Some of the World's Leading Management Thinkers, chapter 2, pages 21-44, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789812818607_0002
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    Cited by:

    1. Abbas Ali Abdulhassan, 2022. "The Role of Organizational Virtuousness in Reinforcement Proactive Work Behavior," Management of Organizations: Systematic Research, Sciendo, vol. 87(1), pages 1-20, June.
    2. Latha Poonamallee & Simy Joy, 2022. "Rousing Collective Compassion at Societal Level: Lessons from Newspaper Reports on Asian Tsunami in India," IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, , vol. 11(1), pages 25-46, January.

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