Occupational Industrial Psychology category: 1464 books
Psychology and Work Today
Pearson New International Edition CourseSmart eTextbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
This book describes industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology programs in action, showing how they are developed and implemented in a variety of organizational settings, using workers who differ by gender, age, culture, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
Performance Management for Different Employee Groups
A Contribution to Employment Systems Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Manage managers based on competencies and informal networks – Set task-based output goals for professional specialists – Control temporary workers at the agency level – Ensure that contractors are managed effectively as part of boundary-crossing networks.
This book provides a framework...
Preventing Stress in Organizations
How to Develop Positive Managers
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Preventing Stress in Organizations:**How to Develop Positive Managersoffers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in their staff.
Winner of the 2013 BPS Book Award - Practitioner Text category
Provides information on the critical skills managers...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Aging and Work in the 21st Century, 2nd edition, reviews, summarizes, and integrates existing literature from various disciplines with regard to aging and work, but with a focus on recent advances in the field. Chapter authors, all leading experts within their respective areas, provide recommendations...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Intergroup competition and conflict create pervasive problems in human society, giving rise to such phenomena as prejudice, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and interstate war. Citizens, policy makers, social workers, schoolteachers, and politicians wrestle with these problems, and with difficult questions...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Recent advances in technology have dramatically altered the manner in which organizations function, transforming the way people think about and perform their work. The implications of these trends continue to evolve as emerging innovations adapt to and are adapted by organizations, workers, and other...
by Zuzana Robertson C.Psychol
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book is aimed at HR Professionals, CIPD and occupational psychology students and those working in Resourcing / Recruitment function. It explains how a psychometric test can be evaluated as an aid to selection and illustrates this with a business scenario (based on a CIPD case study).
First...
Mid and Late Career Issues
An Integrative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This new book looks at the unique career issues faced by those workers in their mid and late career stages, particularly with regard to the psychosocial dynamics of mid and late careers. With the growth in aging workers worldwide, we need a deeper understanding of the unique challenges and issues...
Leading Global Teams
Translating Multidisciplinary Science to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This breakthrough volume details the psychological and interpersonal skills needed to meet the practical challenges of building, developing, adapting, training, and managing multicultural global teams. Its self-regulation approach offers cognitive keys to understanding and embracing difference and...
Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time
Theory, Research, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time reviews the research on temporal orientation and brings together the disparate social behaviors influenced by time perspective. Organized into four sections, each chapter includes theory, research, applications, and directions for future research. Some...
Assessing Emotional Intelligence
Theory, Research, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Managing human emotions plays a critical role in everyday functioning. After years of lively debate on the significance and validity of its construct, emotional intelligence (EI) has generated a robust body of theories, research studies, and measures. Assessing Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Research,...
Wage and Hour Law
Guide to Methods and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
This practical guide offers management, psychology, and related professionals comprehensive background in—and robust methods for evaluating—frequently litigated wage and hour issues. Wage and hour compliance is impacted by numerous sources including federal laws such as the Fair Labor Standards...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Since the increased attention toward diversity in the workplace, the concepts of "diversity initiatives" and "diversity management" have become a common place in many conversations among academics and practitioners alike. The diversity movement in the workplace originated from...
Functional Job Analysis
A Foundation for Human Resources Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
This book was written to address the need for timely, thorough, practical, and defensible job analysis for HR managers. Under continuing development over the past 50 years, Functional Job Analysis (FJA) is acknowledged by major texts in HR and industrial/organizational psychology as one of the premier...