Occupational category: 1880 books
by Michael Leiter
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Contemporary worklife builds upon a foundation for teamwork among skilled and dedicated people. Despite the utility of supportive working relationships and despite extensive consulting activity on leadership and team building, employees complain extensively about mistreatment by their bosses and colleagues....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Increasing workplace diversity has given rise to growing intergroup challenges that persistently manifest in discrimination. An emerging science in psychology, sociology, and management has yielded useful evidence to be brought to bear on the important problem of discrimination, but current literature...
From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction
Changing the Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
There are many lessons to be learned about work-family interaction. It is clear that some people have learned how to combine work and family in ways that are mutually supporting--at least much of the time--and some employers have created work environments and policies that make positive interdependence...
Incompetency and Competency Training
Improving Executive Skills in Sensemaking, Framing Issues, and Making Choices
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book covers theory and practice of competency and incompetency training. ‘Incompetency training’ includes formal and informal instruction that consciously (purposively) or unconsciously imparts knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior (including procedures) that are useless, inaccurate,...
Developing Sustainable Careers Across the Lifespan
European Social Fund Network on 'Career and AGE (Age, Generations, Experience)
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book offers insights into facilitating sustainable careers through the study of a wide interdisciplinary range of policy investigations and assessment of ongoing practices in the field. By assessing and comparing the transferability of policies and good practices between firms in ten countries...
Mid and Late Career Issues
An Integrative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This new book looks at the unique career issues faced by those workers in their mid and late career stages, particularly with regard to the psychosocial dynamics of mid and late careers. With the growth in aging workers worldwide, we need a deeper understanding of the unique challenges and issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This compelling volume presents the work of innovative researchers dealing with current issues in training and training effectiveness in work organizations. Each chapter provides an integrative summary of a research area with the goal of developing a specific research agenda that will not only stimulate...
Multiteam Systems
An Organization Form for Dynamic and Complex Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This book examines an emerging organizational form called the multi-team system (MTS). This type of aggregation is being increasingly adopted by organizations and agencies that need to respond to complex strategic problems. There has been increasing interest in MTSs over the last decade to the point...
Applied Measurement
Industrial Psychology in Human Resources Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
An updated version of Deborah Whetzel and George Wheaton's earlier volume, this text is a well-organized sourcebook for fundamental practices in industrial psychology and human resources management. Applied Measurement describes the process of job analysis and test development with practical examples...
Individual and Team Skill Decay
The Science and Implications for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Skill and knowledge retention is a major issue and concern in learning and skill acquisition, especially when trained or acquired skills (or knowledge) are needed after long periods of nonuse. The goal of this book is to summarize and advance the thinking of critical issues related to skill retention...
Workplace Well-being
How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Workplace Wellbeing is a complete guide to understanding and implementing the principles of a psychologically healthy workplace for psychologists and other practitioners.
Grounded in the latest theory and research yet filled with plenty of case studies and proven techniques
Introduces the core...
Job Demands in a Changing World of Work
Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees’ well-being and performance. It concentrates on job demands and flexible work emanating from current economic and organizational change, and assesses impact on workers’ health and performance. The development of issues such...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A state-of-the-art psychological perspective on team working and collaborative organizational processes…
This handbook makes a unique contribution to organizational psychology and HRM by providing comprehensive international coverage of the contemporary field of team working and collaborative...
by Helene Smit
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Depth Leadership gives a detailed account of the application of depth psychology principles and practices to leadership. It is a rework of 'The Depth Facilitator’s Handbook', which was published in 2009 as a textbook for students of facilitation. This book is written for leaders who want to use a depth...