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Vulture Cultures
How to stop them ravaging your organisation's performance, people, profit and public image
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Vulture Cultures is a provocative and entertaining book that articulates, in vivid detail, the tell-tale signs and symptoms of destructive workplaces. From the incompetent to the incomprehensible, the disruptive to the dastardly, this book will explain how bad behaviour gains a foothold and what perpetuates...
by Joel Lefkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Ethics and Values in Industrial-Organizational Psychology was one of the first books to integrate work from moral philosophy, moral psychology, I-O psychology, and political and social economy, as well as business. It incorporates these perspectives into a "framework for taking moral action"...
The CEO’s Playbook
Turning the Employees You Have into the Dream Team You Always Wanted
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Explains changes and revolutions in business trends, and how to keep up
Reveals the biggest barriers to business success
Teaches leaders how to bridge communication barriers within their team
Offers simple and elegant tools to approach (and answer) any business and team question a leader may face
Organizational Behavior
Securing Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The management of organizational behavior is a critically important source of competitive advantage in today’s organizations. Every organization’s members share a constellation of skills, abilities, and motivations that differentiates it from every other firm. To gain advantage, managers must...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Since the increased attention toward diversity in the workplace, the concepts of "diversity initiatives" and "diversity management" have become a common place in many conversations among academics and practitioners alike. The diversity movement in the workplace originated from...
Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science
Strategies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2007
Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science fills the gap between 21st century literature on evaluation and what is happening in practice. It features detailed examples of how evaluations actually unfold in practice to develop people, programs, and organizations. Commonly accepted strategies for practicing evaluation are outlined, followed by comprehe
A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families
Lessons for the Leaders of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This unique reference integrates knowledge culled from fifteen years of U.S. deployments to create an action plan for supporting military and veteran families during future conflicts. Its innovative ideas stretch beyond designated governmental agencies (e.g., Department of Defense, VA) to include...
Developing Organizational Simulations
A Guide for Practitioners, Students, and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This second edition of Developing Organizational Simulations provides a concise source of information on effective and practical methods for constructing simulation exercises for the assessment of psychological characteristics relevant to effectiveness in work organizations. Incorporating new additions...
Individual Assessment
As Practiced in Industry and Consulting
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Individual Assessment is a professional practice important to Human Resource Managers, Executives and anyone making decisions about employees. Finally, we now have a clear, practical guide with methodologically-grounded descriptions of how to successfully do it. The authors have put together a unique...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This volume represents an advance in our understanding of how to represent and reason about organizational phenomena. Although organizational theorists have long grappled with the complexities of adaptive agents, ecological systems, and non-linear relations among the basic elements of organizational...
A Contemporary Look at Organizational Justice
Multiplying Insult Times Injury
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
This book is for scholars with an interest in the burgeoning area of theory and research on organizational justice. The ideas it describes forge connections between the justice literature and other prominent bodies of knowledge in organizational and social psychology, including those pertaining to...
Adverse Impact Analysis
Understanding Data, Statistics, and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Compliance with federal equal employment opportunity regulations, including civil rights laws and affirmative action requirements, requires collection and analysis of data on disparities in employment outcomes, often referred to as adverse impact. While most human resources (HR) practitioners are...
by Bailey Klinger, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Carlos del Carpio
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
This book uses newly collected data with nearly 2000 observations across Africa and Latin America of SME owner/operators to examine if psychometric tools can distinguish the good ones from the bad ones. This book fully describes the development problem and how psychometric tools can help solve it. Moreover,...
Nonlinear Dynamics
Techniques and Applications in Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
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Human behavior would not be interesting to us if it remained the same from one moment to the next. Moreover, we tend to be sensitive to changes in people's behavior, especially when such change impacts on our own, and other's, behavior. This book describes a variety of...