Occupational category: 1880 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
This scholarly book in SIOP’s Organizational Frontier series looks at research on enhancing knowledge acquisition and its application in organizations. It concentrates on training, design and delivery given the changing nature of work and organizations. Now that work is increasingly complex, there...
Informed by Knowledge
Expert Performance in Complex Situations
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or "fuse" disparate items of information into coherent knowledge. The chapters examine these processes across experts (e.g. global leaders, individuals in extreme...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Now in its third edition, this authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology.
Updated edition of a highly successful handbook
Focuses on the applied aspects of work and health psychology
New chapters cover emerging themes in this rapidly growing field
Prestigious team of editors and contributors
by Mark S. Aidoo
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The book explores how the rhetorical function of «bôš» («shame») and its cognates within twelve Individual Lament Psalms (ILP) reflect persuasive responses aimed at enhancing the relational spirituality of the psalmist. It argues that the Hebrew terminology of «bôš» is used as a response...
Creative People at Work
Twelve Cognitive Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1992
To demystify creative work without reducing it to simplistic formulas, Doris Wallace and Howard Gruber, one of the world's foremost authorities on creativity, have produced a unique book exploring the creative process in the arts and sciences. The book's original "evolving systems approach" treats...
by Jean A Pardeck, John W Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Examine issues of vital importance to you and your disabled clients-today and in the years to come!
This groundbreaking text provides you with up-to-date, authoritative information that will prove to be of critical importance for disability professionals in the coming years. It will leave you...
Politics in Organizations
Theory and Research Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This edited volume in the SIOP Frontiers series is one of the first to look at the psychological factors behind politics and power in organizations. Noted contributors from schools of management, psychology, sociology and political science look at the theory, research, methodology and ethical issues...
Pattern Making, Pattern Breaking
Using Past Experience and New Behaviour in Training, Education and Change Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Rapid changes in technology, the nature of organisations, non-traditional career progression, globalisation and ’virtual worlds’ mean that we need to become ever more effective learners in order to keep pace with the demands placed upon us. Our patterns of understanding, the ways in which we make...
Handbook of Intellectual Styles
Preferences in Cognition, Learning, and Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
"[B]ecause of the thoroughness of the literature reviews and the comprehensive coverage of the chapter topics, [this book] should be required reading for any scholar working in related areas of personality or intelligence."--PsycCRITIQUES
ìThis book is a masterly attempt to bring order and...
Art Therapy in Private Practice
Theory, Practice and Research in Changing Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
As perspectives on private art therapy practice evolve, this book provides an overview of the range of approaches, clinical settings, ethical issues and professional considerations when working outside of the formal structures of publically-funded services.
An essential guide for art therapy...
China's Spatial (Dis)integration
Political Economy of the Interethnic Unrest in Xinjiang
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This book is intended to provide the narratives and analytics of China’s spatial (dis)integration. Indeed, the Chinese nation is far too large and spatially complicated and diversified to be misinterpreted. The only feasible approach to analyzing it is, therefore, to divide it into smaller geographical...
Resilience Training for Firefighters
An Approach to Prevent Behavioral Health Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Developing resilience skills has the potential to shield firefighters and other emergency responders from the negative effects of stressful incidents and situations. Drawing on cutting-edge research, this SpringerBrief proposes strategies to prevent firefighter behavioral health issues using the...
The Five Principles of Collaboration
Applying Trust, Respect, Willingness, Empowerment, and Effective Communication to Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Relationships are built around five principles of collaboration, and when any of them are lacking, human relationships suffer. J. Ibeh Agbanyim outlines how to apply trust, respect, willingness, empowerment, and effective communication to improve your life at home, on the job, and in social settings....
Fear
A Healthy Emotion If Well Managed
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Fear is powerful, and it has a presence in whatever we do in lifewhether that is passing our exams, keeping peace in our homes, or simply adjusting to the constantly changing world. In Fear, author J. Ibeh Agbanyim offers a guidebook that portrays fear as a healthy emotionas long as it is well managed.
Demonstrating...