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Risky Work Environments
Reappraising Human Work Within Fallible Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Risky Work Environments provides new insights into the multiple and dynamic trajectories of both near misses and mistakes in complex work environments, based on actual case examples. It also studies the interactions between various activity systems or work practices (design, maintenance, incident...
by Daniel P. Jenkins, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
'Complex sociotechnical systems' are systems made up of numerous interacting parts, both human and non-human, operating in dynamic, ambiguous and safety critical domains. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of...
Just Culture
Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong. How do you respond to the people involved? What do you do to minimize the negative impact, and maximize learning? This third edition of Sidney...
by Karen M. Barbera
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture presents the breadth of topics from Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior through the lenses of organizational climate and culture. The Handbook reveals in great detail how in both research and practice climate...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A unique compendium of international investigations into motivation and performance, this book offers chapters by industrial and organizational psychologists from the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan as they share their theories, concepts, empirical evidence, and practical evidence regarding...
Discrimination at Work
The Psychological and Organizational Bases
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This volume brings together top scholars in industrial and organizational psychology with social psychologists to explore the research and theory relating to various areas of workplace discrimination.
Many of the contributors to this book participated in a conference on workplace discrimination...
Justice in the Workplace
From theory To Practice, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Justice in the Workplace acts as a central reference point for application of organizational justice and helps human resource managers relate the importance of justice to their work environments.
Forming much of this book's content, outcomes, processes, and interpersonal treatment are three...
Validity Generalization
A Critical Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This volume presents the first wide-ranging critical review of validity generalization (VG)--a method that has dominated the field since the publication of Schmidt and Hunter's (1977) paper "Development of a General Solution to the Problem of Validity Generalization." This paper and the...
Future Trends in Production Engineering
Proceedings of the First Conference of the German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP), Berlin, Germany, 8th-9th June 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
To meet and adapt to the current and future trends and issues in technology and society, the science committee of The German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP) continues to define future topics for production technology.
These themes represent not only the key focus for the scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It was a great honor for us to organize ChiCat, a symposium devoted to Chiral Reactions in Heterogeneous Catalysis and to be the hostsofmore than 120 scientists coming from everywhere in the industrialized world, to celebrate together one century of existence ofInstitut Meurice. This school was established...
by Wei Sun, Thomas H. Hyde, Christopher J. Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Complete coverage of design and life assessment methods for high-temperature components
Applied Creep Mechanics fully discusses the time-dependent deformation which occurs in a metal when subjected to stress at an elevated temperature. This book explains how to perform detailed analyses of welded...
Renewable Synthetic Fuels and Chemicals from Carbon Dioxide
Fundamentals, Catalysis, Design Considerations and Technological Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book outlines the most recent progress in the development of technologies for carbon dioxide utilization into renewable synthetic fuels and platform chemicals via chemical and biological routes. Various processes are discussed, including thermocatalytic, electrocatalytic, photocatalytic, and...
by Octave Levenspiel
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
The third edition ofEngineering Flow and Heat Exchangeis the most practical textbook available on the design of heat transfer and equipment. This book is an excellent introduction to real-world applications for advanced undergraduates and an indispensable reference for professionals. The book includes...
by Rakesh Kumar Parashar
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Organic chemistry is a core part of the chemistry curricula, and advanced levels texts often obscure the essential framework underlying and uniting the vast numbers of reactions as a result of the high level of detail presented. The material in this book is condensed into a manageable text of 350...