Positive work approaches and their influence on institutional high performance and staff wellbeing: A review

The traditional management theory and training approaches that focused on business failure and labor ineptness have swamped up management excellence today. This warped approach to personnel management in organizations, which is reactive and focused on problem fixing only led to a sharp focus on weaknesses of the management models prevalent in African institutions. This has ineptly sacrificed a focus on opportunities existing within the work force. Maximizing workforce opportunities and benefits depends on how strategically the center of management excellence focuses and utilizes positive work approaches. Positive organizational approaches was founded on the understanding that all goal directed systems work by themselves towards achieving growth and development in an organization. Accordingly, positive work psychology acknowledges that a focus on the negative is the result of empirical finding that accounts for significantly larger variance in the functioning of individuals as well as social systems and organizations. With the pace at which the work environment is rapidly evolving, todays’ workforce requires that organizations adopt approaches that respond rapidly and competitively to issues at hand. This paper reviews and shares the author’s perspective on the above issues.