Occupational and industrial psychology Books

Healthy and successful organizations require the people who work within them to be happy, resilient and creative. Just as a human body is undermined if it suffers from sickness, so an organization can only function fully if the people who work within it...

Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is an innovative book for career development students and professionals aiming to creatively progress their coaching practice. Without losing sight of fundamental coaching values and practices, it encourages...

With close attention to Wilfred Bion's influence on the literature about groups and organisations, this book explores how containment has been transposed from the clinical setting to enlighten the work being carried out by psychodynamic practitioners and...

There is a huge elephant in the room: organizational decisions are often based on family relationships, rather than on the 'rational' approach advocated by many professionals. Textbooks on Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Economics,...

Critical Moments in Executive Coaching examines the change process supported by workplace and executive coaching, making use of empirical evidence from the study of a range of real coaching conversations and coaching relationships. It is both a complete...

The people you hire will inevitably shape your career destiny. Hiring people is easy. Hiring the right person require patience, skill and persistence. In this practical guide to the corporate psychology of staffing, Dr. Ken Byrne describes the science of...

Project risk management is regarded as a necessary dimension of effective project delivery. Current practices tend to focus on tangible issues such as late delivery of equipment or the implications of technology. This book introduces a framework to...

Psychology for Coaches offers its readers a chance to ground their interpersonal skills in sound psychological theory and research. It provides a solid synthesis of current concepts and research results, translating them into hands-on recommendations and...

to imagine and innovate with our ability to comprehend and manipulate natural and social forces. We must produce constructive contact between our visions of hope and our scientific knowledge of the physical and social ...

The growing interest in multiple commitments among researchers and practitioners is evinced by the greater attention in the literature to the broader concept of work commitment. This includes specific objects of commitment, such as organization, work...

This book provides an accessible and clear description of key theories of systemic coaching and how they can be applied to coaching practice. Structured around five different ways of thinking about systems, the book provides coaches with a high-level...

Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Combining insights from psychology, political science and labour market research, this book offers new...

Personality has emerged as a key factor when trying to understand why people think, feel, and behave the way they do at work. Recent research has  linked personality to important aspects of work such as job performance, employee attitudes,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Arbeit, Betrieb, Organisation und Wirtschaft, Note: 1,0, SRH Hochschule Riedlingen, Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Wirtschaftspsychologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nachdem die...

Les caractères essentiels de l'organisation du travail, avant le développement de la grande industrie à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au XIXe, semblent avoir été fixés de très bonne heure. Ce mode d'organisation se manifeste par la constitution des...

Les caractères essentiels de l'organisation du travail, avant le développement de la grande industrie à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au XIXe, semblent avoir été fixés de très bonne heure. Ce mode d'organisation se manifeste par la constitution des...

Stress is commonly witnessed in the workplace due to environmental factors and human interaction and can result in health complications, high turnover, and more. While stress is often perceived negatively, a manageable amount of stress may work as a...

Managing emotions independently contributes to our own emotional intelligence and our ability to manage other people's emotions effectively. The management of others' emotions is a new phenomenon, and its research offers insight into this effective tool...

C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen die zweite Hälfte jedes zweiten Wortes fehlt. Sie gelten in der Regel als objektives, reliables, valides und ökonomisches Instrument zur Messung allgemeiner Sprachkompetenz und werden mittlerweile in...

Adaptives Testen ist ein aktueller, psychometrisch anspruchsvoller Ansatz zur Messung psychischer Merkmale. Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit Effekten des adaptiven Testens auf die diskriminante Validität von Testwerten am Beispiel des Frankfurter Adaptiven...

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...

While the field of management has developed as a research discipline over the last century, until the early 1990s there was essentially no acknowledgement that the human spirit plays an important role in the workplace. Over the past twenty years, the...

Embrace the Future: Mastering the New Era of WorkExperience a paradigm shift as you delve into a revolution reshaping the workplace as we know it. This compelling book is your gateway to thriving amidst the Remote Renaissance-an unprecedented era where...

There are not many books that address the boundaries of care of older people from a work-life perspective. This book, authored by contributors from various countries, looks at the boundaries of care by looking at private and public help, professional and...

This book focuses on the element of leadership that has largely been neglected in the literature: character. Often thought to be a subjective construct, the book demonstrates the concrete behaviors associated with different character dimensions in order...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Arbeit, Betrieb, Organisation und Wirtschaft, Note: 1,9, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Da der Konkurrenzkampf zwischen Unternehmen aufgrund von immer ähnlich werdender Produkte steigt, ist es...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Arbeit, Betrieb, Organisation und Wirtschaft, Note: 1,4, Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die nachfolgende Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit den Unterschieden...

Based on extensive multi-year empirical research, The Pragmatic Optimist addresses what it takes to be a leading light in the darkest hours of a business, economic, or personal crisis.Using real-world case studies, you will discover how to...

Whether talking about steering a wheelbarrow over rugged terrain or plotting the course of international relations, human performance systems involve change. Sometimes changes are subtle or evolutionary, sometimes they are catastrophic or revolutionary,...

This book analyzes and elucidates the view that the purpose of the liberal arts is to offer leadership training and guidelines for success. This professional or managerial tradition of the liberal arts is discussed historically, revisiting three central...

Hawkins and Turner argue that coaching needs to step up to deliver value to all the stakeholders of the coachee, including those they lead, colleagues, investors, customers, partners, their local community and also the wider ecology. Systemic Coaching...

VISION IN ACTION will provide an objective view of the barriers in your life that may be preventing you from achieving the success you deserve. It is meant to give you a clear understanding of our coaching partnership and what you can expect from the...

This books arises from the observation that mainstream psychology, especially work and organisational psychology (WOP), suffers from critical limitations in its attempts to deal with the complexities of work as a cultural phenomenon. We can only mention...

Firms spend a significant part of their marketing budgets on sales promotions. Since the impact of promotions on sales is usually immediate and strong, promotions are attractive to results-oriented managers seeking to increase sales in the short term...

The Modern Scientist-Practitioner argues for a radical rethink of how we understand the science-practice relationship and the notion of the scientist-practitioner model. Drawing on the latest innovations and research from the fields of anthropology,...