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Developing Potential Across a Full Range of Leadership TM
Cases on Transactional and Transformational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
This case book focuses on the leadership style of the key players. The 29 cases were chosen to present all facets of a model of leadership, stating that the most effective leaders are both transformational and transactional in their leadership style. Cases were selected for inclusion and/or developed...
by Mary Crossan, Gerard Seijts, Jeffrey Gandz
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book focuses on the element of leadership that has largely been neglected in the literature: character. Often thought to be a subjective construct, the book demonstrates the concrete behaviors associated with different character dimensions in order to illustrate how these behaviors can be developed,...
Controlled Drug Delivery Systems
Towards New Frontiers in Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of controlled drug delivery systems, covering the most important innovative applications. The principles of controlled drug release and the mechanisms involved in controlled release are clearly explained. The various existing polymeric drug delivery systems...
by Adrian Furnham
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The New Psychology of Money is an accessible and engrossing analysis of our psychological relationship to money in all its forms.
Comprehensive and insightful, Adrian Furnham explores the role that money plays in a range of contexts, from the family to the high street, and asks whether the...
The Moral Economy
Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out”...
Humanitarian Work Psychology and the Global Development Agenda
Case studies and interventions
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In recent years, a new movement has emerged within organizational psychology, transposing the established principles of the field onto arenas of more pressing humanitarian need, including the humanitarian treatment of all workers in all work settings. Humanitarian Work Psychology (HWP) stretches the...
by Linda K. Stroh
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Consultants are called upon more and more to help implement needed organizational changes, fill gaps in workforce capabilities, and solve significant business problems. As the demand for consultants increases, it is critical that practitioners differentiate themselves and understand how they can be...
by Philip Brownell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Gestalt Psychotherapy and Coaching for Relationships provides psychotherapists and coaches with a thorough understanding of two-person dynamics and offers practical interventions for working with couples and with two-person teams within larger organizations. Part I of this text relates contemporary...
Brand Meaning
Meaning, Myth and Mystique in Today’s Brands
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This second edition of Brand Meaning lays out new territory for the understanding of how brands both acquire and provide meaning. The author draws on his experience with leading international companies to propose a compelling framework for the conscious and unconscious ways in which people connect...
The Psychology of Human Leadership
How To Develop Charisma and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The book seamlessly links fundamental insights and practical approaches to address the most important leadership problems and challenges. Each of the 11 chapters takes a close look at a specific leadership aspect and explains how to develop personal leadership qualities, such as charisma, the ability...
Performance Management for Different Employee Groups
A Contribution to Employment Systems Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Manage managers based on competencies and informal networks – Set task-based output goals for professional specialists – Control temporary workers at the agency level – Ensure that contractors are managed effectively as part of boundary-crossing networks.
This book provides a framework...
Work Without Boundaries
Psychological Perspectives on the New Working Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Drawing on more than a decade of inter-disciplinary research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the available theories, concepts, data and research on new work organizations and the concept of ‘work without boundaries’.
Explores a concept of work that is not restricted by traditional...
The Power of Engagement
How to Find Balance in Work and Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In todays chaotic world, we are all trying to balance work and life. But it is not easy. With constant technical distractions and work demands, it can be difficult to focus on one priority at a time. In his comprehensive guidebook, The Power of Engagement, relies on the practical and relevant daily...
Well-being and Performance at Work
The role of context
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Psychology has been interested in the well-being and performance of people at work for over a century, but our knowledge about both issues, and how they relate to each other, is still evolving. This important new collection provides new understandings on what it means to work productively while also...