Positive Practices Assessment

After realizing that 8 in 10 ten companies that downsize never recover or accomplish the desired financial results Kim Cameron became interested in studying the 20% who not only recovered but thrived after they downsized. What was unique about the culture of these companies? After 15 years of research he came up with a list of positive practices he saw in the 20%. Cameron has now used this assessment with many companies across multiple industries and shown a correlation between strong positive practices and business performance. The bottom line from a number of studies is that implementing positive practices significantly predict organizational performance, improvement in positive practice scores predict significant improvement in profitability, and positive practices have a strong positive relationship with employee engagement.

If you would like to have your team or organization take the Positive Practices Assessment please contact Rebecca Rangel-Mullin at rrmullin@leadingwithlift.com to set up a phone call.

Kim S. Cameron (2008) “Paradox in positive organizational change.” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 44: 7-24.

Arran Caza and Kim S. Cameron (2008) “Positive organizational scholarship: What does it achieve?” In Cary L. Cooper and Stewart Clegg (Eds.) Handbook of Macro-Organizational Behavior. New York: Sage.

Kim Cameron (2008) Positive Leadership. San Francisco: Berrett Koehler.