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GUIDE YOUR PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL ALIGNMENT QUEST
AN ESSENTIAL SELF-ASSESSMENT
The Personal & Professional Alignment Questionnaire (PAQ)
by Laura Morgan Roberts, Ph.D.
Free (for a limited time) online assessment available at
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A SUMMARY OF EMPIRICAL SUPPORT FOR THE PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL ALIGNMENT QUEST
Reflected Best Self Engagement at Work:
Positive Identity, Alignment,
and the Pursuit of Vitality and Value-Creation
by Laura Morgan Roberts, Ph.D.
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ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED READINGS AND EXERCISES
TO GUIDE YOUR PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL ALIGNMENT QUEST
RESOURCES TO HELP YOU INCREASE YOUR PURPOSEFUL ENGAGEMENT IN WORK:
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Job Crafting Exercise. This exercise will direct you in transforming your work activities
in ways that will yield greater satisfaction and contribution.
http://www.bus.umich.edu/Positive/CPOS/Teaching/job-crafting.html
For additional information on Job Crafting, read:
o Caplan, J. Hate your job? Here's how to reshape it. www.time.com Dec. 4, 2009.
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Wrzesniewski, A., Berg, J.M., & Dutton, J.E. (2010). Turn the Job You Have into
the Job You Want. Harvard Business Review, 88, 114-117.
Additional Reading Materials:
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Ibarra, H. (2003). Working identity: Unconventional strategies for reinventing
your career. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
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Shapiro, M., Ingols, C., & Blake-Beard, S. (2007). Optioning in versus ‘Opting
out’: Women using flexible work arrangements for career success. Center for
Gender in Organizations Insight #25, Simmons School of Management.
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Hackman, J.R., Oldham, G., Janson, R., & Purdy, K. (1975). A new strategy for
job enrichment. California Management Review, 17, 57-71.
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Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. New
York: Harper & Row.
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Palmer, P.J. (2000). Let your life speak. By San Francisco, CA: Jossey- Bass.
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Quinn, R.E. & Quinn, G.T. (2002). Letters to Garrett. By San Francisco, CA:
Jossey-Bass.
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RESOURCES TO HELP YOU PUT YOUR STRENGTHS TO WORK:
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Reflected Best-Self Exercise
The Reflected Best Self exercise provides you with feedback about who you are when you
are at your best. Participants request positive feedback from significant people in their
lives, which they then synthesize into a cumulative portrait of their “best self.” The
exercise can be used as a tool for personal development because it provides valuable
insights into the ways a person adds value and makes a contribution. R-PAQ Solutions,
LLC can provide you with facilitated administration. Contact
laura@lauramorganroberts.com for more information. To find out more about the
exercise, visit the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship website at
http://www.bus.umich.edu/Positive/CPOS/Teaching/rbse.html
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The Gallup Institute, Tom Rath and Marcus Buckingham together and separately
provide a range of resources around the StrengthFinder self-assessment. For an entrée,
read Now, discover your strengths. By M. Buckingham & Clifton, D. 2001. New York: The
Free Press.
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The Centre for Applied Positive Psychology provides several resources for examining
your strengths and how you fully utilize them. For more information, visit
www.strengths2020.com/resources.htm
RESOURCES TO HELP YOU BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK:
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Discover your signature character strengths by taking the VIA Survey of Character.
http://www.viacharacter.org/
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Additional Reading Materials:
o Bell, E. L., & Nkomo, S. (2001). Our separate ways: Black and white women and
the struggle for professional identity. By Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
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Meyerson, D.E. (2001). Radical change, the quiet way. Harvard Business
Review.
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Meyerson, D. (2001). Tempered radicals: How people use difference to inspire
change at work. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
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Thomas, D., & Ely, R. (1996). Making differences matter: A new paradigm for
managing diversity. Harvard Business Review, 74(5): 79–90.
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Dutton, J.E., Roberts, L. Morgan, & Bednar, J. (2010). Pathways for positive
identity construction at work: Four types of positive identity and the building of
social resources. Academy of Management Review.
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RESOURCES TO HELP YOU CULTIVATE AFFIRMING RELATIONSHIPS:
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Dutton, J.E. (2003). Energizing your workplace: Building and sustaining high quality
relationships at work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Dutton, J.E. & Heaphy, E.D. (2003). The Power of high quality connections at work. In
K. Cameron, J. Dutton and R.E. Quinn (Eds.), Positive organizational scholarship:
Foundations of a new discipline. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
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Fredrickson, B. L. (2009). Positivity: Groundbreaking research reveals how to
embrace the hidden strength of positive emotions, overcome negativity, and thrive.
New York: Crown.
Gottman, J. (1994). Why marriages succeed or fail... and how you can make yours last.
New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Thomas, D., & Gabarro, J. J. (1999). Breaking through: The making of minority
executives in corporate America. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
NOTE - Seek professional assistance from a licensed counselor, coach or therapist if you are
experiencing considerable misalignment or you wish to enlist support in generating greater alignment
between your personal and professional life. R-PAQ Solutions is happy to provide you with referrals.
Please contact us at laura@lauramorganroberts.com.
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RELATED PUBLICATIONS on the ALIGNMENT QUEST
Authored by Laura Morgan Roberts, Ph.D.
Assessment:
The Personal & Professional Alignment Questionnaire. R-PAQ Solutions, LLC. Available at
www.lauramorganroberts.com
Increasing Purposeful Engagement in Work
Morgan, L.M. & Feldman, D.C. (1999). Underemployed human resources: Revealing the secret
dilemma of untapped potential. In R. Quinn, R. O’Neill, and L. St. Clair (Eds.), The Pressing
Problems of Modern Organizations (pp. 77-95). New York, NY: Amacom.
Bringing your Whole Self to Work
Roberts, L. Morgan, Cha, S., Hewlin, P. & Settles, I. (2009). Bringing the inside out: Enhancing
authenticity and positive identity in organizations. In L.M. Roberts & J.E. Dutton (Eds.),
Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research
Foundation. Routledge Press, New York.
Roberts, L. Morgan (2005). Creating a positive professional image. Harvard Business School
Working Knowledge, June 20th newsletter.
Roberts, L. Morgan. (2005). Changing faces: Professional image construction in diverse
organizational settings. Academy of Management Review, 30: 685-711.
Roberts, L. Morgan (2007). Bringing your whole self to work: Lessons in authentic engagement
from women leaders. In B. Kellerman & D. Rhode (Eds.), Women and Leadership: The State
of Play and Strategies for Change. Jossey Bass.
Roberts, L. Morgan, Settles, I.H., & Jellison, W.A. (2008). Predicting the strategic identity
management of gender and race. Identity, 8: 269-306.
Roberts, L. Morgan & Roberts, D. (2007). The business, legal, and ethical ramifications of
cultural profiling at work. Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, 14: 369-405.
Blake-Beard, S. & Roberts, L. Morgan. (2004). Releasing the double bind of visibility in the
workplace. CGO Commentaries Series. Boston, MA: Center for Gender in Organizations,
Simmons College.
Roberts, D., Roberts, L. Morgan, O’Neill, R., & Blake-Beard, S. (2008). The Invisible work of
managing visibility for social change: Insights from the leadership of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Business and Society, 47: 425-456.
Cote, S. & Morgan, L.M. (2002). A longitudinal analysis of the association between emotion
regulation, job satisfaction, and intentions to quit. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23:
947-962.
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Putting Your Strengths to Work
Roberts, L. Morgan, Spreitzer, G., Dutton, J., Quinn, R., Heaphy, E. & Barker, B. (2005). How to
play to your strengths. Harvard Business Review, 83(1): 75-80.
Roberts, L. Morgan, Dutton, J., Spreitzer, G. & Seusse, J. (2006). Bringing my Reflected BestSelf to Life: How to use Reflected Best-Self Feedback for Personal and Career Development.
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Publishing.
Roberts, L. Morgan, Dutton, J.E., Spreitzer, G., Heaphy, E., & Quinn, R. (2005). Composing the
reflected best-self portrait: Building pathways to becoming extraordinary in work
organizations. Academy of Management Review, 30: 712-736.
Roberts, L. Morgan (2006). Shifting the lens on organizational life: The added value of positive
scholarship. Academy of Management Review, 31: 241-260.
Roberts, L. Morgan & Wooten, L.P. (2008). Exploring Black Greek Letter Organizations through
a positive organizing lens. In G. Parks (Ed.), Our Fight Has Just Begun: The Relevance of
Black Greek Fraternities and Sororities in the 21st Century. The University of Kentucky
Press.
Cultivating Affirming Relationships
Roberts, L. Morgan (2006). From proving to becoming: How positive relationships create a
context for self-discovery and self-actualization. In J. Dutton and B. Rose Ragins (Eds.),
Exploring Positive Relationships at Work: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Dutton, J.E., Roberts, L. Morgan, & Bednar, J. (2010). Pathways for positive identity
construction at work: Four types of positive identity and the building of social resources.
Academy of Management Review.
Ely, R. & Roberts, L. Morgan (2008). Shifting frames in team-diversity research: From
difference to relationships. In A.P. Brief (Ed.), Diversity at Work, pp. 175-201. Cambridge
University Press.
Examples of Social Architects
Roberts, L. Morgan & Winston, V. (2005). Bennie Wiley at The Partnership, Inc. Harvard
Business School, Case 406-012.
Roberts, L. Morgan & Kanji, A. (2005). Jeanette Clough at Mount Auburn Hospital. Harvard
Business School, Case 406-068.
Thomas, D.A., Roberts, L. Morgan, & Creary, S.J. (2009). The rise of President Barack Hussein
Obama. Harvard Business School Case 409-115.
Groysberg, B. & Roberts, L. Morgan (2004). Leading the Josie Esquivel franchise. Harvard
Business School, Case 404-054.
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