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Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice
A Workbook for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice: A Workbook for Health Professionals promotes active, team learning of interprofessional evidence-based practice (EBP). This text is distinctive in that it departs from the tradition of EBP occurring from a single disciplinary perspective. Interprofessional...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Over the past decade, research and theory on heroism and heroic leadership has greatly expanded, providing new insights on heroic behavior. The Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership brings together new scholarship in this burgeoning field to build an important foundation for further multidisciplinary...
Neuroscience for Learning and Development
How to Apply Neuroscience and Psychology for Improved Learning and Training
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Neuroscience for Learning and Development is about the psychology and neuroscience that underpins effective and successful training and learning. It introduces the latest research and concepts and suggests practical tools, techniques and ideas to improve how trainers train and how people learn. Readers...
by Theo Compernolle
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Because modern ZOO-directors know more about the inborn needs of their animals, than company-directors about the innate needs of people… the cages in modern zoos are better for animals, than modern offices for people.
Working in an open plan office reduces your intellectual productivity very significantly....
Leadership Development
Paths To Self-insight and Professional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Leadership Development explores how leaders gain and use self-knowledge for continuous improvement and career development and describes how leaders help themselves and the people with whom they work, understand themselves, and become more self-determined, continuous learners, and make the most of...
by Ian Rothmann, Cary L. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Psychologists have been fascinated by the world of work, and the changing relationship between people, technology and the workplace, since the onset of the industrial revolution. And in providing a complete and contemporary overview of this evolving and fascinating field, the new edition of Work and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to the issue of the well-being of working women. This focus addresses a gap that currently exists in the quality-of-life and well-being fields. The work of the authors answers the following broad questions: Does gender...
by Dipak Bhattacharyya
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
It is a comprehensive textbook for engineering and management students. The subject is covered in relation to the specific areas of syllabus as well as emerging thoughts in the field. Industrial Psychology or IP is a scientific study of factors affecting employees or workers. It comprises of work and...
Retirement and the Hidden Epidemic
The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement, and Substance Misuse -- and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Evidence from both local and national surveys suggests that substance misuse and abuse among older adults in the United States is a "hidden epidemic" that poses a major threat to the welfare and quality of life of older drinkers and their families, and has significant public health implications. Based...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Money. The root of all evil? Arguably. Essential to our lives? Certainly. A main driver of human thought, emotion, and action? Absolutely--and psychology and its related fields are getting closer to understanding its complex role in human behavior and in society.
The Psychological Science...
Behavioral Issues in Operations Management
New Trends in Design, Management, and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Behavioral Operations Management has been identified in the last years as one of the most promising emerging fields in Operations Management. Behavioral Issues in Operations Management explains and examines up-to-date research in this field, which works to analyze the impact of human behavior...
Was Communism Doomed?
Human Nature, Psychology and the Communist Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This book explores whether the ideology of communism was doomed to failure due to psychological rather than structural flaws. Does communism fail because there is not enough individual incentive and does it discourage psychological ownership? If so, does it produce learned helplessness and therefore...
Work and Life Integration
Organizational, Cultural, and Individual Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Work-family researchers have had much success in encouraging both organizations and individuals to recognize the importance of achieving greater balance in life. Work and Life Integration addresses the intersect between work, life, and family in new and interesting ways. It discusses current challenges...
by K.J. Radford
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
ecision making is one of the most important activities in both our profes D sional and our private lives today. The literature on the subject has grown considerably over the last fifty years and it now covers many different approaches to the subject. These approaches range from that of creating...