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Le bien-être subjectif au quotidien dans une société plurielle
Le cas des femmes cadres supérieurs en Suisse
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Depuis une cinquantaine d’années, nombreuses sont les études qui s’intéressent aux interactions entre les milieux de vie et leur impact sur la santé. Deux axes principaux se dégagent : l’un focalisé sur le conflit travail-famille en termes de notions liées au stress, et l’autre faisant...
The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring
A Multiple Perspectives Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Cutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring.
Provides a complete, multi-disciplinary look at the practice...
by Christopher D. Wickens, Justin G. Hollands, Simon Banbury
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Forming connections between human performance and design Engineering Psychology and Human Performance, 4e examines human-machine interaction. The book is organized directly from the psychological perspective of human information processing. The chapters generally correspond to the flow of information...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Most aviation accidents are attributed to human error, pilot error especially. Human error also greatly effects productivity and profitability. In his overview of this collection of papers, the editor points out that these facts are often misinterpreted as evidence of deficiency on the part of operators...
Secrecy and Tradecraft in Educational Administration
The covert side of educational life
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
During the last couple of decades, there has been an expansion in a number of related and overlapping fields producing evidence of covert activities: toxic cultures, destructive leadership styles, micropolitics, ethical problems in organisations and administration, abusive power and authority, and...
by Jonathan Passmore, David Peterson, Teresa Freire
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of coaching and mentoring.
Puts cutting-edge evidence at the fingertips of organizational psychology practitioners who need it most, but...
Women as Political Leaders
Studies in Gender and Governing
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Over the past several years, the fields of Leadership Studies and of Women's Studies have grown tremendously. This book, which is a series of case studies of women who have headed governments across the globe, will discuss the conditions and situations under which women rose to power and give a brief...
The California School of Organizational Studies Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology
A Comprehensive Guide to Theory, Skills, and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Discover a wealth of issues in the field of consulting psychologywith this landmark book. Explore key topics in assessment andevaluation, building teams, executive coaching, career counseling,interpersonal conflicts and relationships, benefit design,personality testing, and much more. Learn to delineate...
Idiosyncratic Deals between Employees and Organizations
Conceptual issues, applications and the role of co-workers
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Idiosyncratic deals, or i-deals, are the individualised working arrangements negotiated by employees with the organizations for which they work. Such deals represent an emerging area of study into the effects they have on both parties, as well as co-workers and the wider working world. Do i-deals...
Thriving Under Stress
Harnessing Demands in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
We have all experienced work conditions that tax our ability to cope. Many of us have experienced these demands for long periods of time and have developed psychological, and even physical, problems. Most employees can also recall times when they have dealt with the stress they were under at work,...
Scientific Research Effectiveness
The Organisational Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book deals with the role of the organization in scientific research. It examines organizational influences such as leadership, group dynamics, resources and technology, and their importance in relation to scientific performance. It also deals with issues of scientific research policy, the measurement...
by Susan Louise Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Human Relations Protocol is a practical guide that investigates the choices and consequences that professionals make as they communicate in the workplace. There are real life examples of these choices that many professionals have experienced. Author- Susan Louise Peterson examines how the consequences...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Rapid technological change, global competition, and economic uncertainty have all contributed to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity...
Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends
Doctrine, Verity and Fable in Organizational and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore. Some examples of these "methodological urban legends", as we refer to them in this...