Occupational Industrial Psychology category: 1464 books
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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...
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...
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 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: 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...
Managing Emergent Phenomena
Nonlinear Dynamics in Work Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Chaos, catastrophe, self-organization, and complexity theories (nonlinear dynamics) now have practical and measurable roles in the functioning of work organizations. Managing Emergent Phenomena begins by describing how the concept of an organization has changed from a bureaucracy, to a humanistic...
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...
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...
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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...
Beyond Multiple Choice
Evaluating Alternatives To Traditional Testing for Selection
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This volume provides in-depth coverage of a key piece of today's human resource selection technology--the viability of alternatives to paper and pencil multiple-choice selection tests. Each chapter of this edited volume presents an intensive examination of a key "alternative to multiple-choice...
Work Stress and Health in a Globalized Economy
The Model of Effort-Reward Imbalance
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive, updated summary of research evidence on the effects of stressful working and employment conditions on workers’ health, as based on one of the worldwide leading theoretical models, effort-reward imbalance. It offers three innovative features that are appealing...
by Elizabeth B Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
This forward-looking volume examines the role of social influence--including social media--in creating and fostering sustainable consumer behavior. Using the concepts behind social influence theory as a launching point, it describes humans' need for social networks and identifies the core components...
Developing Leadership and Employee Health Through the Arts
Improving Leader-Employee Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book examines the problems that a “laissez faire” attitude from managers can create in the workplace, as well as the ensuing illness such problems may cause among employees. The book offers new ideas for dealing with these problems and proposes the use of cultural experiences as an active...
by Gudrun Voggenreiter
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Arbeit ist in einem umfassenden Verständnis die Vorbedingung allen Lebens, ist Leben doch durch Bewegung und damit Veränderung, Umgestaltung definiert. Der Mensch möchte sein Selbst in eben diesen Umgestaltungen wiedererkennen, er möchte Spuren hinterlassen. Dabei kommt er häufig in Konflikt...