Quiz 7

Question 1

What is positive institution

Answer 1

Organizations and structured practices in culture or society that serve to elevate and develop our highest human strengths, combine and magnify those strengths, and refract our highest strengths outward in world benefiting ways leading, ultimately, to a world of full-spectrum flourishing

Question 2

What do positive institutions focus on?

Answer 2

community, social systems, businesses, family, and education

Question 3

What is the intention of positive organizations/institutions

Answer 3

meaning, purpose, nurturance, teamwork, and tolerance

Question 4

Enabling

Answer 4

facilitation of support

Question 5

Aggregation

Answer 5

assembly of people in one place

Question 6

Collectivity

Answer 6

social category; two or more individuals

Question 7

Organization

Answer 7

enduring structured group

Question 8

Institutions

Answer 8

organizations with sustained pervasive influence

Question 9

What are the five major social institutions

Answer 9

1. The family
2. Education
3. Religion or spiritual group
4. the economic system/business
5. government

Question 10

The best run organizations are..

Answer 10

performance enhancing, life-affirming, fulfillment giving

Question 11

Institutions: the good and bad elements

Answer 11

elements of wanting to do the right thing, but not always succeeded. attention toward one element may lead to ignorance of other elements

Question 12

What virtues should the enabling institution provide?

Answer 12

Purpose, after, fairness, humanity, dignity

Question 13

Social grouping

Answer 13

the mere presence of other people influences how we act (self-conscious + autonomic arousal)

Question 14

How do we aggregate?

Answer 14

Two or more people are a collectivity, in that there are people that come together with commonalities and form a group because of it

Question 15

The good school

Answer 15

Education that positively affects students through knowledge while reducing negative outcomes such as violence and other unhealthy behaviors. Includes explicit goals that encourage learning, motivation, investment in ones future

Question 16

Jobs require….

Answer 16

Intellectual demands, interpersonal interaction, possible physical activity

Question 17

Common patterns in jobs

Answer 17

Alienated (work is not central to life and not fulfilling)
Economic (work revolves around pay and secureness of job)
Duty-oriented (work highly central to purpose of life, social obligation)
Balanced (work highly central to purpose of life, but economic and expressive goals are satisfied)

Question 18

Design of an intervention to influence success of an organization requires the following….

Answer 18

• The environment in which the organization functions
• the organizations culture including its core leadership and professional identity
• The circumstances in which the strategy will be used
• The appropriate depth of the intervention
• THe likelihood and consequences of collateral effects of the intervention
• The fit of the strategy within the available time frame and its flow inside the sequence of the intervention

Question 19

steps to appreciative inquiry

Answer 19

discovery, dream, design, destiny

Question 20

Constructionist principle

Answer 20

Words create Worlds. Reality, as we know it, is a subjective vs objective state and is socially created through language and conversation

Question 21

Simultaneity principle

Answer 21

inquire creates change. The moment we ask a questio, we begin to create a change.

Question 22

Poetic principle

Answer 22

We can choose what we study. Teams and organizations, like open books, are endless sources of study and learning. what we choose to study makes a difference. it describes - even creates - the world as we know it

Question 23

Anticipatory principle

Answer 23

images inspire action. Human systems move in the direction of their images of the future. the more positive and hopeful the image of the future, the more positive the present day action

Question 24

Positive principle

Answer 24

positive questions lead to positive change. Momentum for large scale change requires large amounts of positive affect and social bonding. this momentum is best generated through positive questions that amplify the positive core