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

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.

Increasingly hostile and turbulent environments have rendered top-down, problem-focused management structures inadequate for ...  Show Full Abstract  

Authors: Shults, Christopher
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: North America; United States
Journal title: Community college review
Resource type: Article
Subjects: Performance; Providers of education and training; Teaching and learning;

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