Occupational Industrial Psychology category: 1464 books
Personnel Selection
Adding Value Through People - A Changing Picture
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This is a fully updated edition of Personnel Selection, a seminal text on the psychometric approach to personnel selection by a noted expert in the field.
Focuses on cutting-edge topics including the influence of social networking sites, adverse impact, age differences and stereotypes, distribution...
by Josh Garner
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Starting a business is always challenging, however, what are the key elements of successful entrepreneurs? How do they overcome adversity?How do they achieve goals?
The REAL secret is HOW they use their attitude.
People who are successful all share one common secret: they behave in...
Mindfulness Starts Here
An Eight-Week Guide to Skillful Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Living a rushed, demanding life and wishing for mental calm to deal with the difficulties you face? Stressed out by tangled thoughts and frazzled feelings? Mindfulness Starts Here offers you a way to ease stress with clear instructions on these points: • How mindfulness works using Five Skillful...
Tricky Coaching
Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Bringing together cases written by experienced leadership and executive coaches from all over the world, this project explores the most demanding and challenging situations they have faced in their professional practices. By analysing and reflecting on the real life case studies the authors show how to deal with these situations in daily life.
Global Organizations
Challenges, Opportunities, and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The 21st century is often characterized as the age of globalization, with the world's economies becoming more and more interconnected at an unprecedented rate. And while the phenomenon of globalization isn't necessarily new, it has taken on a drastically different form since the 1980s: competition...
by Mary Crossan, Gerard Seijts, Jeffrey Gandz
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
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 to illustrate how these behaviors can be developed,...
by Dr. John W. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This is a book about excellence, more particularly about the conditions under which excellence is possible in our kind of society; but it is also—inevitably—a book about equality, about the kinds of equality that can and must be honored, and the kinds that cannot be forced.
Such a book...
by Linda K. Stroh
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Consultants are called upon more and more to help implement needed organizational changes, fill gaps in workforce capabilities, and solve significant business problems. As the demand for consultants increases, it is critical that practitioners differentiate themselves and understand how they can be...
Brand Meaning
Meaning, Myth and Mystique in Today’s Brands
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This second edition of Brand Meaning lays out new territory for the understanding of how brands both acquire and provide meaning. The author draws on his experience with leading international companies to propose a compelling framework for the conscious and unconscious ways in which people connect...
by David Kipnis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is a dark side to human nature that is nurtured by the control of power. In an earlier book, The Powerholders, I I described several psychological principles that appear to govern the behavior of people who control and use social power. In particular, I examined how the successful use of power...
The Complexity of Workplace Humour
Laughter, Jokers and the Dark Side of Humour
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
This book discusses boundaries for organizational humour as well as the jokers and jesters that enliven modern workplaces. It has long been accepted that humour and tragedy can occupy the same space and that is eloquently demonstrated in this book. Using ethnographic research techniques, a selection...
More Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends
Doctrine, Verity and Fable in Organizational and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are based partially in sound scientific rationale and partially in unfounded lore. Some examples of these “methodological urban legends” are characterized by manuscript critiques such as:...
Marketing with Strategic Empathy
Inspiring Strategy with Deeper Consumer Insight
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
We are living in an age of continual motion and change, and as a result traditional strategy planning has become outmoded. Every manager, perhaps even every employee, needs to become a strategist. Every strategist, in turn, needs to develop deep consumer insight - or empathy - as a basis for flexible...
The Mindful Workplace
Developing Resilient Individuals and Resonant Organizations with MBSR
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
This book offers a practical and theoretical guide to the benefits of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in the workplace, describing the latest neuroscience research into the effects of mindfulness training and detailing an eight-week mindfulness training course.
Provides techniques which...