Industrial Health category: 2135 books
The Multisensory Driver
Implications for Ergonomic Car Interface Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Driver inattention has been identified as one of the leading causes for car accidents. The problem of distraction while driving is likely to worsen, partly due to increasingly complex in-car technologies. However, intelligent transport systems are being developed to assist drivers and to ensure a...
Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization’s most dramatic and high-profile “direct actions”—as well as some of its most notable failures. This...
Beyond Multiple Choice
Evaluating Alternatives To Traditional Testing for Selection
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This volume provides in-depth coverage of a key piece of today's human resource selection technology--the viability of alternatives to paper and pencil multiple-choice selection tests. Each chapter of this edited volume presents an intensive examination of a key "alternative to multiple-choice...
The Mediation Handbook
Research, theory, and practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Handbook of Mediation gathers leading experts across fields related to peace, justice, human rights, and conflict resolution to explore ways that mediation can be applied to a range of spectrums, including new age settings, relationships, organizations, institutions, communities, environmental...
by Jonathan Passmore
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This authoritative Wiley Blackwell Handbook in Organizational Psychology focuses on individual and organizational applications of Internet-enabled technologies within the workplace. The editors have drawn on their collective experience in collating thematically structured material from leading writers...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
As we approach the 21st century, there is a discernable shift in policing, from an incident-driven perspective to a proactive problem solving stance often described as "community policing." In this volume a panel of 21 psychologists examine the changing directions in policing and how such...
by Elizabeth B Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
This forward-looking volume examines the role of social influence--including social media--in creating and fostering sustainable consumer behavior. Using the concepts behind social influence theory as a launching point, it describes humans' need for social networks and identifies the core components...
Handbook of Families and Work
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This handbook is designed to illuminate issues involved in the intersection of family life and paid employment from a broad range of disciplines. These contributions by leading national and international work-family scholars represent state-of-the-art summaries of research. Topics include emerging...
Volunteering and Communication
Studies from Multiple Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book won the 2014 Applied Communication Division Award for Outstanding Edited Book
There is a growing interest in studying nonprofit organizations and volunteers as an alternative to studying employees in for-profit businesses and government agencies. This is driven in part by the recognition...
Bayesian Argumentation
The practical side of probability
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation. Together, they form a challenge to philosophers versed in both the use and criticism of Bayesian models who have largely overlooked their...
Heavy Work Investment
Its Nature, Sources, Outcomes, and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The book deals with the concept of Heavy Work Investment (HWI) recently initiated by Snir and Harpaz. Since its introduction the interest in the general HWI model has increased considerably. The book illustrates the development of HWI conceptualization, theory, and research. It deals with the foremost...
CSR und Wirtschaftspsychologie
Psychologische Strategien zur Förderung nachhaltiger Managemententscheidungen und Lebensstile
Language: German
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Dieses Buch fokussiert auf die Ebenen der direkten Implementierung von Corporate Social Responsibility im Unternehmen und im Konsumverhalten. Nicht immer ist das Verständnis für CSR-Maßnahmen bei Mitarbeitern gegeben, doch gerade die Integration von nachhaltigen Strategien in das eigene Bewusstseins...
The Future of Leadership
Leveraging Influence in an Age of Hyper-Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The Future of Leadership considers how the rapid changes of today will affect the leaders of tomorrow. Renowned Leadership scholar Michael A. Genovese argues that one of the key challenges for future leaders will be to effectively and constructively manage the ‘hyper-change’ taking place both...
by Michael A. Braun
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,00, Free University of Berlin (FB Erziehungswissenschaften und Psychologie, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie), course: Wirtschaftspsychologie, 33 entries in the bibliography,...