Making the case for a positive approach to improving organizational performance in higher education institutions: the community college abundance model

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Abstract:

Increasingly hostile and turbulent environments have rendered top-down, problem-focused management structures inadequate for competing in the ever-changing postsecondary knowledge industry. The community college abundance model (CCAM), a strengths-based approach to performance enhancement in community colleges, is presented as a viable alternative. The CCAM draws on positive psychology, positive organizational scholarship, and positive organizational behavior.

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Subjects: Performance; Providers of education and training; Teaching and learning; Management

Keywords: Community college; Administration; College; Postsecondary education; Organisational development

Geographic subjects: North America; United States

Published: Raleigh, North Carolina: Department of Adult and Community College Education, North Carolina State University, 2008

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