Occupational Industrial Psychology category: 1464 books
by Preben Grønkjær
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
I publish this free e-book because I have often heard people say, when working with individuals and groups in workplaces, “That’s so exciting with typology, but I can’t really remember what the different letters stand for.”Thus, the purpose of the book is to give a very brief description of...
The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
Why Things That Go Right Sometimes Go Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. Countless books and papers have been written about how to identify, classify, eliminate, prevent and compensate for it. This bias towards the study of performance failures, leads to...
by Ken J. Rotenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
What makes us trust people? How is trust developed and maintained? Is Western society facing a crisis of trust?
The Psychology of Trust addresses trust issues that are directly relevant to peoples’ experiences in their daily lives. It identifies the factors that cause people to trust, and...
The Neuroscientific Basis of Successful Design
How Emotions and Perceptions Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The term “design” today encompasses attributes of artifacts that go beyond their intended functions, imbuing them with new meanings. Those meanings are deeply related to the emotions perceived by the users. This book investigates the findings deriving from the neurosciences that are relevant to...
Creative Engineering Design Assessment
Background, Directions, Manual, Scoring Guide and Uses
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
The Creative Engineering Design Assessment or CEDA is a newly developed tool to assess creativity specific to engineering design which is vital for innovation. The revised CEDA assesses usefulness in addition to originality. Both originality and usefulness are key constructs in creativity but are...
An Introduction to Work and Organizational Psychology
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The latest edition of this classic text provides a comprehensive and internationally relevant introduction to work and organizational psychology, exploring the depth and diversity of the field in an accessible way without obscuring the complexities of the subject.
Third edition of a classic textbook...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Most aviation accidents are attributed to human error, pilot error especially. Human error also greatly effects productivity and profitability. In his overview of this collection of papers, the editor points out that these facts are often misinterpreted as evidence of deficiency on the part of operators...
The Psychology of Becoming a Successful Worker (Open Access)
Research on the changing nature of achievement at work
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
What is success at work and why is it important? How do top workers describe their success? How can work, community, leadership, family, or home and school promote success?
Success at work is often associated with career-oriented individuals who sacrifice other areas of life to achieve highly...
Distributed Situation Awareness
Theory, Measurement and Application to Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key commodity for teams working within military systems. 'Situation awareness' (SA) is the term that is used within human factors circles to describe the level of awareness that operators have of the situation that they are engaged in; it focuses...
Modelling Command and Control
Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Since its inception, just after the Second World War, Human Factors research has paid special attention to the issues surrounding human control of systems. Command and control environments continue to represent a challenging domain for human factors research. Modelling Command and Control takes a...
by Stian Antonsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The aim of this book is to show how a cultural approach can contribute to the assessment, description and improvement of safety conditions in organizations. The relationship between organizational culture and safety, epitomized through the concept of 'safety culture', has undoubtedly become one of...
Risky Work Environments
Reappraising Human Work Within Fallible Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Risky Work Environments provides new insights into the multiple and dynamic trajectories of both near misses and mistakes in complex work environments, based on actual case examples. It also studies the interactions between various activity systems or work practices (design, maintenance, incident...
by Daniel P. Jenkins, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
'Complex sociotechnical systems' are systems made up of numerous interacting parts, both human and non-human, operating in dynamic, ambiguous and safety critical domains. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of...
The Psychology of Work
Insights into Successful Working Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
***The Psychology of Work***integrates psychological theory with personal narrative from global industry leaders, as well as those entering the workforce, to offer tangible insights into the real world of work. It is ideal for students, professionals and anyone with an interest in how successful organizations...