Gretchen Spreitzer

Gretchen Spreitzer

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Associate Dean for Executive and Corporate Relations
Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration
Professor of Management and Organizations
Education
PhD University of Michigan 1992
BS Miami University 1987
Academic Areas
Management and Organizations
Research
Biography

Gretchen M. Spreitzer's research focuses on employee empowerment and leadership development, particularly within a context of organizational change and decline. Her most recent work is looking at positive deviance and how organizations enable employees to thrive. This work fits within a larger effort at Ross to develop a Scholarship of Positive Organizing (http://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/).


She is the co-author of several books including How to be a Positive Leader (2014) with Jane Dutton, Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship with Kim Cameron, The Leader's Change Handbook: An Essential Guide to Setting Direction and Taking Action (1999) with Jay Conger and Edward Lawler, The Future of Leadership: Speaking to the Next Generation (2001) with Warren Bennis and Thomas Cummings, and A Company of Leaders: Five Disciplines for Unleashing the Power in Your Workforce (2001) with Robert Quinn.

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A Company of Leaders: Five Disciplines for Unleashing the Power in your Workforce
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A Company of Leaders: Five Disciplines for Unleashing the Power in your Workforce
Gretchen Spreitzer and Robert E Quinn
To be successful in today's business environment, organizations need the knowledge, ideas, energy, and creativity of every employee. The best companies accomplish this by turning themselves into a company of leaders--an organization in which employees at every level take the initiative and act as though the business where their own. Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Robert E. Quinn draw on ten years of...
How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact
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How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact
Jane E Dutton (editor), and Gretchen Spreitzer (editor)
Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people’s—and their own—capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholars—including Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational scholarship movement cofounders Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn; and thirteen more—describe how this is being...
Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship
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Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship
Kim S. Cameron (editor), and Gretchen M Spreitzer (editor)
Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) is an umbrella concept used to emphasize what elevates and what is inspiring to individuals and organizations by defining and improving on the challenging, broken, and needlessly difficult. POS focuses attention on the generative dynamics in organizations that lead to the development of human strength, foster resiliency in employees, enable healing and...
The Leader's Change Handbook: An Essential Guide to Setting Direction and Taking Action
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The Leader's Change Handbook: An Essential Guide to Setting Direction and Taking Action
Jay A Conger (editor), Gretchen Spreitzer (editor), Edward E. Lawler III (editor)
In October of 1997, the nation's top business theorists and practitioners met at a conference cosponsored by USC's Leadership Institute and the Center for Effective Organizations. The group was challenged to present their most advanced ideas regarding leadership and change management. This guide is the stunning result of their collective efforts. Charged with fascinating case studies, action...
Destructive De-energizing Relationships: How Thriving Buffers their Effect on Performance.
Authors
Gerbasi, A., Porath, C., Parker, A., Spreitzer, G., & Cross,R.
Published Date
10/2015
Authors
Gerbasi, A., Porath, C., Parker, A., Spreitzer, G., & Cross,R.
Source
Journal of Applied Psychology
Volume
100
Issue
5
Pages
1423-1433
Should your company embrace coworking?
Authors
Spreitzer, G., Garrett, L., & Bacevice, P.
Published Date
10/2015
Authors
Spreitzer, G., Garrett, L., & Bacevice, P.
Source
Sloan Management Review
Volume
57
Issue
1
Pages
27-30
Growing at Work: Employees' Interpretations of Progressive Self-Change in Organizations
Authors
Sonenshein, S., Grant, A., Dutton, J., Spreitzer, G., & Sutcliffe, K.
Published Date
2013
Authors
Sonenshein, S., Grant, A., Dutton, J., Spreitzer, G., & Sutcliffe, K.
Source
Organization Science
Volume
24
Issue
2
Pages
552-570
Relationship Quality and Virtuousness: Emotional Carrying Capacity as a source of Individual and Team Resilience.
Authors
Stephens, J.P., Heaphy, E., Carmeli, A., Spreitzer, G., Dutton, J., & Bagozzi, R.
Published Date
2013
Authors
Stephens, J.P., Heaphy, E., Carmeli, A., Spreitzer, G., Dutton, J., & Bagozzi, R.
Source
Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Volume
49
Issue
1
Pages
13-41
Applying a POS Lens to Bring out the Best in Organizations
Authors
Spreitzer, G., & Cameron, K.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Spreitzer, G., & Cameron, K.
Source
Organizational Dynamics
Volume
41
Issue
2
Pages
85-88
Building a Sustainable Model of Human Energy in Organizations: Exploring the Critical Role of Resources.
Authors
Quinn, R., Spreitzer, G.M., & Lam, C.F.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Quinn, R., Spreitzer, G.M., & Lam, C.F.
Source
Academy of Management Annals
Volume
6
Issue
1
Pages
337-396
Creating sustainable performance
Authors
Spreitzer, G. and Porath, C.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Spreitzer, G. and Porath, C.
Source
Harvard Business Review
Volume
90
Issue
(1-2)
Pages
92-99
Helping students manage their energy: Taking Their Pulse with the Energy Audit
Authors
Spreitzer, G. & Grant, T.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Spreitzer, G. & Grant, T.
Source
Journal of Management Education
Volume
36
Issue
2
Pages
239-263
Thriving at Work: Toward Its Measurement, Construct Validation, and Theoretical Refinement
Authors
Porath, C., Spreitzer, G., Gibson, C., & Stevens, F.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Porath, C., Spreitzer, G., Gibson, C., & Stevens, F.
Source
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
250-271
Toward human sustainability: How to enable more thriving at work?
Authors
Spreitzer, G., & Porath, C.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Spreitzer, G., & Porath, C.
Source
Organizational Dynamics
Volume
41
Issue
2
Pages
155-162
Crafting Scholarly Life: Strategies for Creating Meaning in Academic Careers
Authors
Wellman, N., & Spreitzer, G.
Published Date
2011
Authors
Wellman, N., & Spreitzer, G.
Source
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Volume
32
Issue
6
Pages
927-931
It's the Little Things that Matter: An Examination of Knowledge Workers' Energy Management
Authors
Fritz, C., Lam, C.F., & Spreitzer, G.M.
Published Date
2011
Authors
Fritz, C., Lam, C.F., & Spreitzer, G.M.
Source
Academy of Management Perspectives
Volume
25
Issue
3
Pages
28
Downsizing the company without downsizing morale.
Authors
Aneil and Karen Mishra, Gretchen Spreitzer
Published Date
07/2009
Authors
Aneil and Karen Mishra, Gretchen Spreitzer
Source
Sloan Management Review
Volume
50
Issue
3
Pages
39-44
The collaborative turn. How collaborative spaces foster collaboration and creativity
Authors
Bacevice, P, and Spreitzer, G.
Published Date
2021
Authors
Bacevice, P, and Spreitzer, G.
Source
Routledge
Pages
n/a
The role of coworking spaces for collaboration and creativity
F. Montenari
Collaborative Spaces at Work: Innovation, Creativity and Relations
Authors
Bacevice, P, and Spreitzer, G.
Published Date
12/2020
Authors
Bacevice, P, and Spreitzer, G.
Source
Routledge
Pages
n/a
The role of coworking spaces for collaboration and creativity
Fabrizio Montanari, Elisa Mattarelli, Anna Chiara Scapolan
Organization Behavior and the Physical Environment.
Authors
Spreitzer, G., Bacevice, P. & Garrett, L.
Published Date
07/2020
Authors
Spreitzer, G., Bacevice, P. & Garrett, L.
Source
New York: Routledge.
Pages
235-250
Workplace design, the physical environment, and human thriving at work.
O. Ayoko & N. Ashkanasy (eds).
Oxford Bibliographies.
Authors
Cameron, L., Garrett, L., & Spreitzer, G.
Published Date
05/2020
Authors
Cameron, L., Garrett, L., & Spreitzer, G.
Source
New York: Oxford University Press.
Alternative work arrangements
Richard Griffin
Creating Psychologically Healthy Workplaces.
Authors
Spreitzer, G., & Hwang, E.B.
Published Date
03/2019
Authors
Spreitzer, G., & Hwang, E.B.
Source
New York: Edward Elgar.
Pages
293-310
How thriving at work matters for creating psychologically healthy workplaces: Current perspectives and implications for the new world of work.
R. Burke & A. Richardson
Organization Behavior and the Physical Environment.
Authors
Spreitzer, G., Bacevice, P. & Garrett, L.
Published Date
07/2019
Authors
Spreitzer, G., Bacevice, P. & Garrett, L.
Source
New York: Routledge.
Workplace design, the physical environment, and human thriving at work.
O. Ayoko & N. Ashkanasy (eds).
Happiness
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer and Christine Porath
Published Date
04/2017
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer and Christine Porath
Source
Harvard Business Review Press
Pages
99-130
Sustainable Performance
Compillation
Routledge Campanion to Well-Being at Work.
Authors
Spreitzer, G., Bacevice, P., & Garrett, L.
Published Date
2017
Authors
Spreitzer, G., Bacevice, P., & Garrett, L.
Source
New York: Routledge.
Pages
197-206
Coworking Communities as Enablers of Thriving at Work.
Cooper, C. & Leiter, M.
The Enduring Thoughts of the Thinkers of Organizational Change.
Authors
Spreitzer, G.
Published Date
2017
Authors
Spreitzer, G.
Source
New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan
Pages
1091-1108
Inspiring Positive Change: The Paradoxical Mind of Robert E. Quinn.
D. Szabla, W. Pasmore, and M. Barnes
Sleep and Work
Authors
Spreitzer, Gretchen; Fritz, Charlotte; Lam, Chak Fu.
Published Date
5/2016
Authors
Spreitzer, Gretchen; Fritz, Charlotte; Lam, Chak Fu.
Source
Oxford University Press
Pages
. 241-262
Sleep and Other Energy Management Mechanisms: The Engine for High Energy at Work.
C. Barnes, J. Barling & D. Wagner
How to be a Positive Leader
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer and Chris Porath
Published Date
05/2014
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer and Chris Porath
Source
San Francisco, CA: Barrett-Koehler.
Enabling Thriving at Work.
J. Dutton & G. Spreitzer
How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact.
Authors
Jane Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer
Published Date
05/2014
Authors
Jane Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer
Source
San Francisco, CA: Barrett-Koehler.
An Invitation to Positive Leadership: How Small Actions Can Make Big Impact
J. Dutton & G. Spreitzer
How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact.
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer and Jane Dutton
Published Date
05/2014
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer and Jane Dutton
Source
San Francisco, CA: Barrett-Koehler.
How to Be a Positive Leader: Insights and Future Possibilities.
J. Dutton & G. Spreitzer
Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation, and Self-Determination Theory
Authors
Spreitzer, G.M., and Porath, C.
Published Date
2014
Authors
Spreitzer, G.M., and Porath, C.
Source
Oxford University Press
Self-Determination as Nutriment for Thriving: Building an Integrative Model of Human Growth at Work
M. Gagne
Research in Organization Change and Development.
Authors
Quinn, R.E., Heynoski, K., Thomas, M., & Spreitzer, G.
Published Date
12/2014
Authors
Quinn, R.E., Heynoski, K., Thomas, M., & Spreitzer, G.
Source
Emerald
Pages
22-54
Co-Creating The Classroom Experience To Transform Learning and Change Lives.
Abraham Shani
Encyclopedia of Management Theory
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer
Published Date
2013
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer
Source
Thousand Oaks: Sage
Positive Organizational Scholarship
E.H. Kessler
New Frontiers in Work and Family Research
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer
Published Date
2013
Authors
Gretchen Spreitzer
Source
Routledge
Using a Positive Organizational Scholarship Lens to Enrich Research on Work-Family Relationships
J.G. Grzywacz and E. Demerouti
Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship
Authors
Cameron, K.S., & Spreitzer, G.M.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Cameron, K.S., & Spreitzer, G.M.
Source
Oxford University Press
Pages
1-16
Introduction to the handbook
K. Cameron and G. Spreitzer
Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship
Authors
Spreitzer, G.M., Lam, C.F., ad Quinn, R.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Spreitzer, G.M., Lam, C.F., ad Quinn, R.
Source
Oxford University Press
Pages
155-167
A Review of Human Energy in Organizations: Implications for Positive Organizational Scholarship
K. Cameron and G. Spreitzer
Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship
Authors
Spreitzer, G.M., & Cameron, K.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Spreitzer, G.M., & Cameron, K.
Source
Oxford University Press
Pages
1034-1048
A Path Forward: Toward Progress in Becoming a Discipline
K. Cameron and G. Spreitzer
How to be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact
Authors
Jane Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer
Published Date
05/2014
Authors
Jane Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer
Source
Berrett-Koehler
978-1626560284
The Best Teacher in You: Accelerating Learning and Changing Lives.
Authors
Robert Quinn, Katherine Heynoski, Michael Thomas, Gretchen Spreitzer
Published Date
06/2014
Authors
Robert Quinn, Katherine Heynoski, Michael Thomas, Gretchen Spreitzer
Source
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
1626561788
Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship
Authors
Cameron, K. and Spreitzer, G.
Published Date
2012
Authors
Cameron, K. and Spreitzer, G.
Source
Oxford University Press
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