Occupational Industrial Psychology category: 1464 books
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...
The Mediation Handbook
Research, theory, and practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Handbook of Mediation gathers leading experts across fields related to peace, justice, human rights, and conflict resolution to explore ways that mediation can be applied to a range of spectrums, including new age settings, relationships, organizations, institutions, communities, environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This book explores the effects of shift work and non standard working hours on family and social life. It features analysis and case studies from an international body of researchers from Europe, the Americas and Australia. It includes contributions from Germany, the United States, the Netherlands,...
Handbook of Families and Work
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This handbook is designed to illuminate issues involved in the intersection of family life and paid employment from a broad range of disciplines. These contributions by leading national and international work-family scholars represent state-of-the-art summaries of research. Topics include emerging...
Volunteering and Communication
Studies from Multiple Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book won the 2014 Applied Communication Division Award for Outstanding Edited Book
There is a growing interest in studying nonprofit organizations and volunteers as an alternative to studying employees in for-profit businesses and government agencies. This is driven in part by the recognition...
Bayesian Argumentation
The practical side of probability
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation. Together, they form a challenge to philosophers versed in both the use and criticism of Bayesian models who have largely overlooked their...
Heavy Work Investment
Its Nature, Sources, Outcomes, and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The book deals with the concept of Heavy Work Investment (HWI) recently initiated by Snir and Harpaz. Since its introduction the interest in the general HWI model has increased considerably. The book illustrates the development of HWI conceptualization, theory, and research. It deals with the foremost...
CSR und Wirtschaftspsychologie
Psychologische Strategien zur Förderung nachhaltiger Managemententscheidungen und Lebensstile
Language: German
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Dieses Buch fokussiert auf die Ebenen der direkten Implementierung von Corporate Social Responsibility im Unternehmen und im Konsumverhalten. Nicht immer ist das Verständnis für CSR-Maßnahmen bei Mitarbeitern gegeben, doch gerade die Integration von nachhaltigen Strategien in das eigene Bewusstseins...
The Future of Leadership
Leveraging Influence in an Age of Hyper-Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The Future of Leadership considers how the rapid changes of today will affect the leaders of tomorrow. Renowned Leadership scholar Michael A. Genovese argues that one of the key challenges for future leaders will be to effectively and constructively manage the ‘hyper-change’ taking place both...
Mindfulness in the Workplace
An Evidence-based Approach to Improving Wellbeing and Maximizing Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Mindfulness-based interventions in organizations offer the potential to build individual and organizational resilience, engage employees and address workplace stress. Mindfulness in the Workplace is a practical guide written for practitioners who want to learn how mindfulness can be used as a change...
by Friedemann Nerdinger, Niclas Schaper, Gerhard Blickle
Language: German
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Das Lehrbuch zum beliebtesten Anwendungsgebiet der Psychologie deckt die Bereiche Organisation, Personal und Arbeit in ihren Grundlagen und ihrer Praxis ab: Wovon hängt es ab, ob jemand zufrieden mit der Arbeit ist? Welche Prozesse finden bei Fusionen und Unternehmensübernahmen statt? Wie funktioniert...
Coaching-Praxisfelder
Forschung und Praxis im Dialog
Language: German
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Coaching ist längst nicht mehr nur in der Führungskräfteentwicklung und im Sport anzutreffen. Auch in weiteren Handlungsfeldern wie beispielsweise der Politik, dem Gesundheitssektor, der Sozialen Arbeit oder der Wissenschaft findet Coaching vermehrt Verbreitung. Diese rasante Entwicklung aufgreifend,...
Psychologie der Werte
Von Achtsamkeit bis Zivilcourage – Basiswissen aus Psychologie und Philosophie
Language: German
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Dieser Sammelband lädt ein, sich mit den Grundwerten unserer Gesellschaft neu auseinanderzusetzen: Was bedeuten eigentlich Empathie, Respekt, Vertrauen u.a. Werte im Kern? Was wissen psychologische Forschung, Philosophie oder Theologie darüber? Welche Bedeutung haben diese Werte für jeden Einzelnen...