Industrial Health category: 2135 books
The Mindful and Effective Employee
An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training Manual for Improving Well-Being and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The importance of improving and maintaining employees’ psychological health is now widely recognized by occupational health researchers and practitioners, business leaders, human resource professionals, and policy makers alike. Indeed, a growing body of research has established that psychological...
by Preben Grønkjær
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book presents a model of eight team roles preferred by different psychological types when solving tasks. It is suitable primarily for dialogues on how individual members of a group can complement each other, but it may also be used to reflect on your own work performance.The use of the...
Functional Job Analysis
A Foundation for Human Resources Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
This book was written to address the need for timely, thorough, practical, and defensible job analysis for HR managers. Under continuing development over the past 50 years, Functional Job Analysis (FJA) is acknowledged by major texts in HR and industrial/organizational psychology as one of the premier...
Executive Coaching
The Essential Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2004
For many mental health professionals, executive and personal coaching represent attractive alternatives to managed care practice. This book provides mental health professionals with a map of the territory of the corporate world and describes in detail the major theoretical coaching models and progressive...
by Preben Grønkjær
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
I publish this free e-book because I have often heard people say, when working with individuals and groups in workplaces, “That’s so exciting with typology, but I can’t really remember what the different letters stand for.”Thus, the purpose of the book is to give a very brief description of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Personality has always been a predictor of performance. This book of original chapters is designed to fulfill a need for a contemporary treatment of human personality in work organizations. Bringing together top scholars in the field, this book provides a comprehensive study of the role of personality...
Promoting Health and Well-being in the Workplace
Beyond the Statutory Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The workplace is where almost two thirds of adults spend almost two thirds of their waking time. Though traditional, statutorily-driven approaches to risk management have been demonstrably effective in reducing the number of injuries and sickness in recent years, psychological and physical health issues...
by Steven Carley
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
“Performance Management Systems and Structure” opens by explaining and differentiating the 13th and 14th divisions of the APA. A brief history of industrial/organizational (IO) psychology will occur. The book then enters into different aspects of the present components within performance management...
by Paul Whitney, Robert B. Ochsman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This volume is based on the symposium "Psychology and Productivity: Bringing Together Research and Practice" held at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in August 1987. The conference was made possible by the Marie Wilson Howell's bequest to the UALR Psychology Department. The symposium...
The Neuroscientific Basis of Successful Design
How Emotions and Perceptions Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The term “design” today encompasses attributes of artifacts that go beyond their intended functions, imbuing them with new meanings. Those meanings are deeply related to the emotions perceived by the users. This book investigates the findings deriving from the neurosciences that are relevant to...
Universal Access and Assistive Technology
Proceedings of the Cambridge Workshop on UA and AT ’02
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The first Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) was held at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in March 2002. It was inspired by the earlier, highly successful Cambridge Workshops on Rehabilitation Robotics organised by the late Robin Jackson. Robin was the founder of Rehabilitation...
A Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology
Volume 3: Personnel Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Personnel Psychology (or Human Resource Management) examines individual differences and their consequences for the organization. Attention is paid to choice processes, abilities and capabilities, needs and need fulfilment, commitment, selection methods, career development, appraisal and training....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Insidious Workplace Behavior (IWB) refers to low-level, pervasive acts of deviance directed at individual or organizational targets. Because of its inherently stealthy nature, scientists have paid little attention to IWB, allowing us to know very little about it. With this book, that now is changing....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Aging and Work in the 21st Century, 2nd edition, reviews, summarizes, and integrates existing literature from various disciplines with regard to aging and work, but with a focus on recent advances in the field. Chapter authors, all leading experts within their respective areas, provide recommendations...