Occupational and industrial psychology

Psychopaths are little understood outside of the criminal image.

Misbehaviour in organizations can be difficult for management to detect and correct, and as a consequence, the cost to organizations can be high.

This book takes a close-up and critical look at both the elusive and blatant workings and consequences of power in a range of everyday sites in universities.

This is a comprehensive, practical and engaging book designed to help readers to recognise bullying behaviour at work and identify and select inter-personal strategies for handling bullying behaviour.

The four main tenets of life are explored in this unique new book that examines the issues that touch each executive, or for that matter, people in general.

We have recently seen stock-markets plunge and governments bail out banks.

Do you want to acquire the knowledge and skills to give you greater influence in political situations at work?

From a pioneer of team emotional intelligence comes a practical guide for building high-performing teams.

No Fear highlights two challenges we face in the workplace, and in our daily lives.

Adrian Furnham takes a sideways glance at management in this book of short essays.

Including practical advice on how to conduct a stress audit and how to target stress 'hot spots' within an organization, Organizational Stress Management provides a fresh strategic model for the manager concerned with the negative effects stress can have both on company performance and the quality of life of individuals at work.

Zaleznik takes managers into Freud's world of psychoanalysis and shows managers what they need to know about themselves and their employees to better motivate and lead.

The Republic of Color delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America.

Every year, about 25,000 new products are introduced in the United States.

Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure?

Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles.

Providing both a depth and breadth of examples of ethical dilemmas which coaches may face as part of their practice, this book is the first comprehensive handbook of case studies in the field, supporting coaches in developing their ethical awareness and competence.

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As we move further into the 21st century, the global challenges and consequences posed by climate change are becoming increasingly apparent.

As we move further into the 21st century, the global challenges and consequences posed by climate change are becoming increasingly apparent.

Human beings are adapted for group living.

Human beings are adapted for group living.

Organizational socialization is the process by which a new employee learns to adapt to an organizational culture.

How does the insecurity of work affect us?

The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues.

Motivation is that which moves us to action.

From medicine to education, evidence-based approaches aim to evaluate and apply scientific evidence to a problem in order to arrive at the best possible solution.

The area of work and aging is complex and multi-faceted.

The critical link between psychology and the military is imprtant to recruiting, training, socializing, assigning, employing, deploying, motivating, rewarding, maintaining, managing, integrating, retaining, transitioning, supporting, counseling, and healing military members.

We have all experienced work conditions that tax our ability to cope.

Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders is the first volume to adopt the mulidisciplinary approach required to understand the decline in public trust in contemporary institutions, and to propose and assess remedies.

Employee selection has long stood at the practical forefront of industrial/organizational psychology.

Research-based investigations of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship have the potential to inform each other and enrich our knowledge of each of these areas, particularly with regard to cognitive processes and effective behaviors.

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) is an umbrella concept used to emphasize what elevates and what is inspiring to individuals and organizations by defining and improving on the challenging, broken, and needlessly difficult.

In this volume, a diverse group of world experts in personality assessment showcase a range of different viewpoints on response distortion.

How does motivation work?

True or False?

Marijuana is the world's most popular illicit drug, with hundreds of millions of regular users worldwide.

This book addresses a new concept, the organizational learning contract, a shared agreement among the faculty, staff, and students in an educational institution about what, how, where, and when learning should take place.

For the past decade, suicidal behavior in military and veteran populations has been a constant feature in the news and in the media, with suicide rates among active duty American military personnel reaching their highest level in almost three decades.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture presents the breadth of topics from Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior through the lenses of organizational climate and culture.

Organizations today are increasingly using projects in their daily activities.

One of the "e;Best Books of 2011"e; from the Center for Optimal Adult DevelopmentAmid fluctuations in today's job markets and economies, the importance of learning across the lifespan has become a point of emphasis for governments and employers throughout the world.

Self-determination theory is a theory of human motivation that is being increasingly used by organizations to make strategic HR decisions and train managers.

Even the best Wall Street investors make mistakes.

In the age of knowledge, organizations survive and thrive only when they learn.

The Practice of Organizational Diagnosis: Theory & Methods presents a new paradigm for examining the intergroup dynamics of organizations by combining the procedures of organizational diagnosis with the theory of embedded intergroup relations.

You get good grades in college, pay a small fortune to put yourself through law school, study hard to pass the bar exam, and finally land a high-paying job in a prestigious firm.

You get good grades in college, pay a small fortune to put yourself through law school, study hard to pass the bar exam, and finally land a high-paying job in a prestigious firm.

Originally termed Industrial-Organizational Psychology (I/O), practitioners of this specialty emanate from varying backgrounds in business-psychology related fields.