The Role of Positive Affect and Imagery in Sustaining Innovation and Change During Organizatonal Transitions: An Exploratory Study

在美国国家科学基金会创新与组织变革项目的支持下，这项试点研究将探讨组织希望和积极影响在组织经历重大变革中的作用。在McClelland关于激励的工作，Adler关于强烈忠诚和承诺的工作以及护理和临床心理学的实证工作的基础上，研究人员将把这些概念操作化，并发展一个广泛的理论框架来指导实证工作。2他们将研究经历变革的高绩效和低绩效组织。 这一进程的成果将是对这些概念的丰富描述和可操作性，这些概念将作为进一步研究的基础。

With support from the National Science Foundation's Innovation and Organizational Change Program, this pilot study will examine the role of organizational hope and positive affect in organizations undergoing major change.Building on McClelland's work on motivation, Adler's work on intense loyalty and commitment as well as empirical work from nursing and clinical psychology, the researchers will operationalize the concepts and develop a broad theoritical framework to guide the empirical work.They will study high performing and low performing organizations undergoing change. The outcome of this process will be a rich description of and operationalization of the concepts that will serve as the basis for further study.