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Linking Emotional Intelligence and Performance at Work
Current Research Evidence With Individuals and Groups
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this edited volume, leading edge researchers discuss the link between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and workplace performance. Contributors from many areas such as social science, management (including organizational practitioners), and psychologists have come together to develop a better understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Organizations today are increasingly using projects in their daily activities. Projects and project-management principles frame goal attainment in academia and many business sectors, and they even serve as theoretical footing for organizational-change endeavors. However, the ubiquity of project management...
Antecedents and outcomes of expatriate adjustment - The influence of motivation and acculturation attitude on adjustment and performance
The influence of motivation and acculturation attitude on adjustment and performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Diploma Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,7, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 165 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This study investigates the antecedents and outcomes of expatriate adjustment...
Strategic Job Modeling
Working at the Core of Integrated Human Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
(USE FOR PRACTITIONER/BUSINESS PIECES)
In an increasingly knowledge-based economy, a company's success hinges on the quality of its people. People set strategy, make decisions, build relationships, and drive change. Businesses possess a powerful advantage if their people do their jobs better and faster...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book examines how the career counselling profession should respond to the changes in the world of work that have resulted from the increasing need to communicate faster and disseminate information more efficiently. It emphasizes the twin aims of enhancing a persons’ career adaptability and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Traditionally, organizations and researchers have focused on learning that occurs through formal training and development programs. However, the realities of today’s workplace suggest that it is difficult, if not impossible, for organizations to rely mainly on formal programs for developing human...
Handbook of Career Development
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
This book is focused on work, occupation and career development: themes that are fundamental to a wide range of human activities and relevant across all cultures. Yet theorizing and model building about this most ubiquitous of human activities from international perspectives have not been vigorous. An...
Executive Burnout
Eastern and Western Concepts, Models and Approaches for Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Never before has the world witnessed the phenomenon of severe stress and burnout on such a large scale as in recent years. Globalization, technological advances and economic meltdown have brought about a plethora of unprecedented challenges for industry and organizations across the globe. Consequently,...
Group Model Building
Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book describes the cognitive and interpersonal effects of group model building, and presents empirical research on what group model building achieves and how. Further, it proposes an integrated causal mechanism for the effects on participants. There have been multiple previous attempts at explaining...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The well-received first edition of the Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2007, 2 vols) established itself in the academic library market as a landmark reference that presents a thorough overview of this cross-disciplinary field for students, researchers, and professionals in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Leader-member exchange (LMX) is the foremost dyadic theory in the leadership literature. Whereas contemporary leadership theories such as transformational, servant, or authentic leadership theories focus on the effects of leader behaviors on employee attitudes, motivation, and team outcomes, relational...
The Multisensory Driver
Implications for Ergonomic Car Interface Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Driver inattention has been identified as one of the leading causes for car accidents. The problem of distraction while driving is likely to worsen, partly due to increasingly complex in-car technologies. However, intelligent transport systems are being developed to assist drivers and to ensure a...
by Cyrus Sulzberger
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This remarkable book by the distinguished journalist Cyrus Sulzberger is in a modern sense comparable to Burton’s famous The Anatomy of Melancholy.
My Brother Death is a thoughtful and finely written effort to discern just what death is, to define both it and its relationship to man, to discuss...
Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization’s most dramatic and high-profile “direct actions”—as well as some of its most notable failures. This...