Occupational Industrial Psychology category: 1464 books
Big Dead Place
Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It’s like M*A*S*H on ice, a bleak, black comedy.”—The Times of London
A Bigger Prize
How We Can Do Better than the Competition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Get into the best schools. Land your next big promotion. Dress for success. Run faster. Play tougher. Work harder. Keep score. And whatever you do-make sure you win.
Competition runs through every aspect of our lives today. From the cubicle to the race track, in business and love, religion...
Safety At Work:
Skills to Calm and De-escalate Aggressive & Mentally Ill Individuals - For All Involved in Threat Assessment & Threat Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Corporate Security, Human Resources, Executive Protection, and Loss Prevention Professionals must deal with individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance use disorders on a frequent basis. Ellis Amdur and William Cooper offer these officials a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves,...
An Intelligent Career
Taking Ownership of Your Work and Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Written by three career experts, An Intelligent Career is a playbook for the modern knowledge worker, providing a complete guide that will allow workers to take a composite, dynamic view of a life's work in the 21st century. "Knowledge work" is fundamental in today's economy. It is the basis...
Compassion
The Core Value That Animates Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
This text is an attempt to stimulate and support therapists' efforts to take care of themselves, to understand and maintain commitment. Such reflection, it argues helps therapists to be active and receptive.
by Walter Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
What is Existentialism? It is perhaps the most misunderstood of modern philosophic positions—misunderstood by reason of its broad popularity and general unfamiliarity with its origins, representatives, and principles.
Existential thinking does not originate with Jean Paul Sartre. It has prior...
Foucault on Leadership
The Leader as Subject
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Michel Foucault, one of the most cited scholars in the social sciences, devoted his last three lectures to a study of leader development. Going back to pagan sources, Foucault found a persistent theme in Hellenistic antiquity that, in order to qualify for leadership, a person must undergo processes...
The Global Hillary
Women's Political Leadership in Cultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Is there a linkage between "smart power" and Hillary Clinton's leadership style? Can she advance American leadership and women's development worldwide? The Global Hillary addresses these questions and many others.
Bringing together two key aspects of Clinton’s ongoing career—her...
When Reporters Cross the Line
The Heroes, the Villains, the Hackers and the Spies
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
When Reporters Cross the Line tells the true story of moments when the worlds of media, propaganda, politics, espionage and crime collide, casting journalism into controversy. Its pages feature some of the best-known names in British broadcasting, including John Simpson, Lindsey Hilsum and Charles...
Leadership - What Really Matters
A Handbook on Systemic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
What does really matter for daily leadership? How would a good and effective manager be characterized? Daniel F. Pinnow describes in a very illustrative way the essentials of collaborating with people in the business environment. This standard reference book exists as a 4th edition in German and is...
The Professionalization of Coaching
A Reader for the Coach
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This book features papers of prominent representatives of the German coaching scene on the professional development of this counseling format. The book thereby offers guidelines for practicing professionals and for scientists as well as for potential users of coaching. Coaching is, after all, developing...
Negotiation and Persuasion
The Science and Art of Winning Cooperative Partners
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Scientific research shows that the most successful negotiators analyze the situation thoroughly, self-monitor wisely, are keenly aware of interpersonal processes during the negotiation – and, crucially, enter negotiations with a fair and cooperative attitude. This book is a clear and compact guide...
by John Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Most change looks at how organisations change and ignore the individual. This booklet looks to redress that balance by proposing a model of change that closes the past whilst acknowledging what worked. Creating a vibrant vision of the future and helping identifying first steps/actions.Using...
The Feldenkrais Method for Executive Coaches, Managers, and Business Leaders
Moving in All Directions
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In this fascinating and practical book, Garet Newell and Simon Paul Ogden show how the Feldenkrais Method can be used by coaches and managers as a resource to improve both the performance of individuals and the health and wellbeing of the people they work with.
The Feldenkrais Method is based...