Occupational Industrial Psychology category: 1464 books
Exploring Positive Relationships at Work
Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This edited volume brings together a select group of leading organizational scholars for the purpose of developing a foundation-setting book on positive relationships at work. Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) is a rich new interdisciplinary domain of inquiry that focuses on the generative processes,...
The Psychology of Human Leadership
How To Develop Charisma and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The book seamlessly links fundamental insights and practical approaches to address the most important leadership problems and challenges. Each of the 11 chapters takes a close look at a specific leadership aspect and explains how to develop personal leadership qualities, such as charisma, the ability...
Work Without Boundaries
Psychological Perspectives on the New Working Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Drawing on more than a decade of inter-disciplinary research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the available theories, concepts, data and research on new work organizations and the concept of ‘work without boundaries’.
Explores a concept of work that is not restricted by traditional...
Personal Relationships
The Effect on Employee Attitudes, Behavior, and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
We know that positive, fulfilling and satisfying relationships are strong predictors of life satisfaction, psychological health, and physical well-being. This edited volume uses research and theory on the need to belong as a foundation to explore various types of relationships, with an emphasis on...
by Dr. Michael D. Mumford, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
What are the relevant personality and motivational traits of good (and bad) leaders?
Do leaders possess different types of intellectual capacities?
How do effective leaders behave and what kinds of people follow them?
What are the contextual/situational factors that give rise to leaders?
How is leadership...
Great Days at Work
How Positive Psychology can Transform Your Working Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Great Days at Work will enable you to become more enthusiastic at work, feel more positive and work more effectively with others. Drawing on the latest insights from positive psychology, it outlines practical day-to-day changes you can make immediately for instant benefit, as well as helping you develop...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
This edited collection brings together some of the leading researchers in the study of the daily experience of work and daily well-being. The book covers both theoretical and methodological issues involved in studying workers’ well-being as it evolves on a daily basis.
Interest in the topic...
The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction
How to Flourish in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "good life." While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to understanding the experience of love, it has only made a modest contribution...
Moral Contract Theory and Social Cognition
An Empirical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
This interdisciplinary work draws on research from psychology and behavioral economics to evaluate the plausibility of moral contract theory. In a compelling manner with implications for moral theory more broadly, the author’s novel approach resolves a number of key contingencies in contractarianism...
Cross-Cultural Team Building
Fundamentals, practices, and reliability
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,0, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Intercultural Communication Studies), course: Intercultural Management, language: English, abstract: As team building is in...
by Christine Gockel, Tabea Scheel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor. Humor is inescapable in our daily interactions - also at the work place. Affiliative, self-enhancing, self-deprecating and aggressive humor can all occur at work and have unique and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Matters of perceived fairness and justice run deep in the workplace. Workers are concerned about being treated fairly by their supervisors; managers generally are interested in treating their direct reports fairly; and everyone is concerned about what happens when these expectations are violated....
Most organisations can only have a rhetorical commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility
Critically examine this statement
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: High Merit, European College of Business and Management (ECBM) London (London School of Economics and Political Science), language: English, abstract: '[I]t remains a fact that many...
The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition
Contradiction, Change, and Holism
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The unprecedented economic growth in many East Asian societies in the few past decades have placed the region center stage, and increasing globalization has made East-West cultural understanding of even greater importance today. The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition is...