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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...
Proactivity at Work
Making Things Happen in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As organizations grow increasingly complex and unpredictable, the topic of proactivity at work has become of great importance for contemporary workplaces. Proactivity drives performance and innovation of teams and organizations and boosts individuals’ well-being and careers. When individuals are...
Cross Cultural Issues in Consumer Science and Consumer Psychology
Current Perspectives and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This integrative volume identifies and defines cross-cultural issues in consumer psychology and consumer science as the world becomes an increasingly global marketplace. An international panel of experts analyzes current trends in consumer behavior across diverse countries worldwide and across cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Work Motivation in the Context of a Globalizing Economy evolved from a work motivation conference held in Israel, attended by a group of internationally renowned scholars. These scholars were given the charge of creating a vision of motivation research for the 21st century. Coming from different parts...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This book concentrates on the last twenty years of research in the area of goal setting and performance at work. The editors and contributors believe goals affect action, and this volume has a lineup of international contributors who look at the recent theories and implications in this area for IO psychologists and human resource management academics and graduate students.
The Work and Family Handbook
Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The Work and Family Handbook is a comprehensive edited volume, which reviews a wide range of disciplinary perspectives across the social sciences on the study of work-family relationships, theory, and methods. The changing demographics of the labor force has resulted in an expanded awareness and understanding...
Bully Blocking at Work
A Self-Help Guide for Employees and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Evelyn Field's masterful analysis of the ways we can help employees cope with and overcome workplace bullying and harassment is a must read for all concerned about how to right this wrong. — Dr Philip Zimbardo, Stanford University and author of The Lucifer Effect, Understanding How Good People Turn...
Brief Coaching
A Solution Focused Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Brief Coaching offers a new approach to coaching by considering how the client will know when they have reached their goal, and what they are already doing to get there. The coach aims to work towards the solution rather than working away from the problem, so that the client's problem is not central...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This volume is part of a publication series emerging from an international interdisciplinary study group on "New Technologies and Work (NeTWork)". NeTWork is sponsored by the Werner-Reimers Foundation (Bad Homburg, Germany) and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris).
The NeTWork study...
Health Services and Health Hazards: The Employee’s Need to Know
The Employee's Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Close followers of the evolution of the Series on Industry and Health Care will recognize in this fourth volume some continuity and some change. The essential concept behind the series remains: here, as before, we are looking to private industry as a potential agent of change in the American health...
The Mindfulness Edge
How to Rewire Your Brain for Leadership and Personal Excellence Without Adding to Your Schedule
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
The one habit that can improve almost every leadership skill
There is a simple practice that can improve nearly every component of leadership excellence and it doesn't require adding anything to your busy schedule. In The Mindfulness Edge, you'll discover how a subtle inner shift, called mindfulness,...
Critical Studies in Diversity Management Literature
A Review and Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
This book critically examines current workplace diversity management practices and explores a nuanced framework for undertaking, supporting, and implementing policies that equally favor all people. It presents critical perspectives that not only elevate respect for differences but also provide insights...
The Terrorist's Dilemma
Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit? The Terrorist's Dilemma is the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are...
Organizational Resilience
How Learning Sustains Organizations in Crisis, Disaster, and Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In the age of knowledge, organizations survive and thrive only when they learn. All too often, when organizations are confronted with novel or changing situations, the process of learning breaks down and the result is catastrophic. In Organizational Resilience: How Learning Sustains Organizations...