Organizational Psychology News
Social Decision Making
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Mon, 11/16/2009 - 06:49
Social Decision Making
Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments
- Edited by Roderick M. Kramer, Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Max H. Bazerman
This book, in honor of David Messick, is about social decisions and the role cooperation plays in social life. Noted contributors who worked with Dave over the years will discuss their work in social judgment, decision making and ethics which was so important to Dave.
The book offers a unique and valuable contribution to the fields of social psychology and organizational behavior. Ethical decision making, a central focus of this volume, is highly relevant to current scholarship and research in both disciplines. The volume will be suitable for graduate level courses in organizational behavior, social psychology, business ethics, and sociology.
ISBN: 9781841698991
Published June 24 2009 by Psychology Press.
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Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Fri, 11/13/2009 - 05:13
Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management
A Practical Guide for Managers
- Edited by Edward M. Mone, Manuel London
An engaged employee is someone who feels involved, committed, passionate and empowered and demonstrates those feelings in work behavior. This book explains that a more engaged workforce is really about better performance management. The authors expand the traditional notion of performance management to include building trust, creating conditions of empowerment, managing team learning, and maintaining ongoing straightforward communications about performance, all of which are critical to employee engagement. The "best practices" tools and advice in this book are based on solid research as well as the authors experience.
ISBN: 9781848728202
Published November 13 2009 by Routledge Academic.
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Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Thu, 11/12/2009 - 15:49
Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations
Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation
- Edited by Laura Morgan Roberts, Jane E. Dutton
In the new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is consequential and challenging for individuals, for groups and for organizations. New challenges for positive identity construction and maintenance require new theory. This edited volume uncovers new topics and new theoretical approaches to identity through the specific focus on positive identities of individuals, groups, organizations and communities.
This volume aims to forge new ground in identity research and organizations through a compilation of new frame-breaking chapters on positive identity written by leading identity scholars. In chapters that build theoretical and empirical bridges between identity and growth, authenticity, relationships, hope, sustainability, leadership, resilience, cooperation, and community reputation and other important variables, the authors jumpstart an exciting domain of research on new ways that work organizations are sites of and contributors to identities that are beneficial or valuable to individuals or collectives.
This volume invites readers to consider, "When and how does applying a positive lens to the construct of identity generate new insights for organizational researchers?" A unique feature of this volume is that it brings together explorations of identity from multiple levels of analysis: individual, dyadic, group, organization and community. Commentary chapters integrate the chapters within each level of analysis, illuminate core themes and unearth new questions.
The volume is designed to accomplish three objectives:
- To establish Positive Identities and Organizations as an interdisciplinary, multi-level domain of inquiry
- To integrate a focus on Positive Identity with existing theory and research on identity and organizations
- To map out a vibrant new research territory in organizational studies .
This volume will appeal to an international community of scholars in Management, Psychology, and Sociology, as well as practitioners who seek to generate positive identity-related dynamics, states and outcomes in work organizations.
ISBN: 9781841697635
Published May 28 2009 by Psychology Press.
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Object Relations, Work and the Self
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Thu, 10/15/2009 - 07:15
Object Relations, Work and the Self
- By David P. Levine
In this book, David P. Levine applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and Melanie Klein, he explores three factors central to our effort to understand work: guilt, greed and the self. Special attention is paid to the factors that determine the individuals emotional capacity to do work that engages the self and its creative potential and to the related matter of impairment in that capacity. Chapters include:
- the problem of work
- greed, envy and the search for the self
- skill, power and authority
- work and reality.
Object Relations, Work and the Self will be of interest to psychoanalysts and organizational consultants as well as anyone concerned with what determines the quality of life in the workplace.
ISBN: 9780415479974
Published October 15 2009 by Routledge.
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Auditing Organizational Communication
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Thu, 10/01/2009 - 10:49
Auditing Organizational Communication
A Handbook of Research, Theory and Practice
- Edited by Owen Hargie, Dennis Tourish
Auditing Organizational Communication is a thoroughly revised and updated new edition of the successful Handbook of Communication Audits for Organizations, which has established itself as a core text in the field of organizational communication. Research studies consistently show the importance of effective communication for business success. They also underscore the necessity for organizations to put in place validated techniques to enable them to systematically measure and monitor their communications. This Handbook equips readers with the vital analytic tools required to conduct such assessments.
Owen Hargie, Dennis Tourish and distinguished contributors drawn from both industry and academia:
- provide a comprehensive analysis of research, theory and practice pertaining to the communication audit approach
- review the main options confronting organizations embarking on audit
- discuss the merits and demerits of the approaches available
- provide case studies of the communication audit process in action
- illustrate how findings can be interpreted so that suitable recommendations can be framed
- outline how reports emanating from such audits should be constructed.
This second edition arrives at a time of considerable growing interest in the area. A large volume of research has been published since the last edition of the book, and the text has been comprehensively updated by reviewing this wealth of data. In addition, new chapters on social network analysis and auditing the communication revolution have been added, together with new case study chapters illustrating audits in action.
ISBN: 9780415414456
Published March 24 2009 by Routledge.
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The Joy of Work?
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Wed, 09/09/2009 - 01:09
The Joy of Work?
Jobs, Happiness, and You
- By Peter Warr, Guy Clapperton
Are you happy at work? Or do you just grin and bear it? We spend an average of 25% of our lives at work, so its important to make the best of it.
The Joy of Work? looks at happiness and unhappiness from a fresh perspective. It draws on up-to-date research from around the world to present the causes and consequences of low job satisfaction and gives helpful suggestions and strategies for how to get more enjoyment from work. The book includes many interesting case studies about individual work situations, and features simple self-completion questionnaires and procedures to help increase your happiness. Practical suggestions cover how to improve a job without moving out of it, advice about changing jobs, as well as how to alter typical styles of thinking which affect your attitudes.
This book is unique. The subject is of major significance to virtually all adults - people in jobs and those who are hoping to get one. It is particularly distinctive in combining two areas that are usually looked at separately self-help approaches to making yourself happy and issues within organizations that affect well-being.
The Joy of Work? has been written in a relaxed and readable style by an exceptional combination of authors: a highly-acclaimed professor of psychology and a widely published business journalist. Bringing together research from business and psychology including positive psychology this practical book will make a big difference to your happiness at work and therefore to your whole life.
ISBN: 9780415459655
Published September 09 2009 by Routledge.
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Full Range Leadership Development
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Tue, 09/01/2009 - 18:02
Full Range Leadership Development
Pathways for People, Profit and Planet
- By John J. Sosik, Dongil (Don) Jung
It has been more than 20 years since Bernie Bass presented an integrated overview of full range leadership development. This has been the standard for providing leadership training around the world in business, military, religious and educational contexts. Penn State Universitys master of leadership development program is directed by John J. Sosik and uses these transactional transformational leadership paradigms as their foundation for their courses. This book can be used as a main textbook for this course and supplement any IO course in the area of leadership development.
Full range leadership development strives to grow transformational leadership in organizations at all levels, including followers, thereby generating numerous positive outcomes at all levels. Organizations that support and develop transformational leadership across organizational levels are more productive and profitable, attract and retain high quality associates, promote creativity and innovation, garner trust and commitment from employees, and are strategically positioned to respond well to changes in the market.
This book will present the different theories of leadership and concentrate on the process model of FULL RANGE LEADERSHIP that explains the concepts and procedures by which leaders affect their followers (individual leadership), teams (leader to team), and organizations (leader to larger systems). This book can be used by practitioners or students, as the author will provide practical action steps for how to best develop and display behaviors in the Full Range Leadership Development model.
ISBN: 9781848728059
Published September 02 2009 by Psychology Press.
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Adverse Impact
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Tue, 08/18/2009 - 10:18
Adverse Impact
Implications for Organizational Staffing and High Stakes Selection
- Edited by James L. Outtz
This text is the best single repository for a comprehensive examination of the scientific research and practical issues associated with adverse impact. Adverse impact occurs when there is a significant difference in organizational outcomes to the disadvantage of one or more groups defined on the basis of demographic characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, etc.
This book shows, based on scientific research, how to design selection systems that minimize subgroup differences. The primary object of this volume in the SIOP series is to bring together renowned experts in this field to present their viewpoints and perspectives on what underlies adverse impact, where we are in terms of assessing it and what we may have learned (or not learned) about minimizing it.
ISBN: 9780805863741
Published August 18 2009 by Routledge Academic.
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Essential Life Coaching Skills
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Thu, 08/06/2009 - 23:07
Essential Life Coaching Skills
- By Angela Dunbar
Essential Life Coaching Skills provides a comprehensive guide to the complete range and depth of skills required to succeed as a life coach.
Angela Dunbar uses theoretical background alongside practical examples to provide a clear understanding of what makes a successful life coach. This book focuses on seven essential skill sets that are necessary for effective life coaching, with each chapter giving specific examples of how these skills are used in life coaching, and how they can be developed and improved. The book also includes a comprehensive, current overview of life coaching processes, practices and issues, from both the coach and client perspectives.
Essential Life Coaching Skills will be ideal reading for new and existing life coaches who wish to find ways to enhance their competence and ability. It will also be of use to therapists and counsellors looking to expand into coaching.
ISBN: 9780415458962
Published August 07 2009 by Routledge.
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Learning, Training, and Development in Organizations
Work and Organizational Psychology News - Wed, 08/05/2009 - 22:06
Learning, Training, and Development in Organizations
- Edited by Steve W.J. Kozlowski, Eduardo Salas
This scholarly book in SIOPs Organizational Frontier series looks at research on enhancing knowledge acquisition and its application in organizations. It concentrates on training, design and delivery given the changing nature of work and organizations. Now that work is increasingly complex, there is greater emphasis on expertise and cognitive skills. Advances in technology such as computer simulations and web-based training are necessitating a more active role for the learner in the training process. In the broad context of the organization systems, this book promotes learning and development as a continuous lifelong endeavor.
ISBN: 9780805855593
Published August 06 2009 by Routledge Academic.
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