Applied Psychology Series
About the Book Series
Bridging both academic and applied interests, the Applied Psychology Series offers publications that emphasize state-of-the-art research and its application to important issues of human behavior in a variety of societal settings. To date, more than 50 books in various fields of applied psychology have been published in this series.
To propose a title, please contact Jeanette Cleveland ([email protected]), Donald Truxillo ([email protected]), and Zoe Thomson ([email protected]).
What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment: Spotlights and Shadows
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne O'Leary-Kelly, Shannon Rawski
April 28, 2025
What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment seeks to examine both the spotlights (Part I) and the shadows (Part II) of the #MeToo movement, setting a research agenda to examine both more carefully in management research. Sexual harassment (SH) is not a new ...
Values and Ethics of Industrial-Organizational Psychology
3rd Edition
By Joel Lefkowitz
March 07, 2023
This foundational text was one of the first books to integrate work from moral philosophy, developmental/moral psychology, applied psychology, political and social economy, and political science, as well as business scholarship. Twenty years on, this third edition utilizes ideas from the first two ...
Understanding Employee Engagement: Theory, Research, and Practice
2nd Edition
By Zinta S. Byrne
February 25, 2022
Understanding Employee Engagement is a comprehensive source for the science and practice of employee engagement. This book provides a rigorous and objective review of scholarship and empirical research on engagement from around the world. Grounded in theory and empirical research, this book ...
How Groups Encourage Misbehavior
1st Edition
By Kevin Murphy
May 27, 2021
How Groups Encourage Misbehavior explores the psychological and social processes by which groups develop a tolerance for and even encourage misbehavior. Drawing from decades of research on social, cognitive and organizational psychology, as well as a deep well of historical research, this book...
Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
2nd Edition
Edited
By Laura L. Koppes Bryan
December 30, 2020
Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Second Edition updates the first edition with the latest creative and scholarly views of I-O psychology to provide a complete, up-to-date understanding of this discipline’s history within a contemporary context. This new edition...
Positive Psychological Science: Improving Everyday Life, Well-Being, Work, Education, and Societies Across the Globe
2nd Edition
Edited
By Stewart I. Donaldson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jeanne Nakamura
May 06, 2020
Positive psychological science has experienced extraordinary growth over the past two decades. Research in this area is revealing new strategies and interventions for improving everyday life, health and well-being, work, education, and societies across the globe. Contributions from luminaries in ...
Diversity Resistance in Organizations
2nd Edition
Edited
By Kecia M. Thomas
April 20, 2020
This new volume revisits diversity resistance 10 years later, examining the fluidity of diversity resistance in workplaces. Top-notch contributors provide insight about the motivations to resist diversity and inclusion as well as offer strategies for preventing and derailing diversity resistance ...
Handbook of Personality at Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Neil Christiansen, Robert Tett
December 13, 2019
Personality has emerged as a key factor when trying to understand why people think, feel, and behave the way they do at work. Recent research has linked personality to important aspects of work such as job performance, employee attitudes, leadership, teamwork, stress, and turnover. This ...
Early Development and Leadership: Building the Next Generation of Leaders
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan E. Murphy, Rebecca Reichard
December 10, 2019
Today we often look to our leaders in business, government, or the social sector, to make effective decisions in a complex world. Whether they are asked what steps to take to improve competitiveness in a global economy or to make tough ethical choices, well-trained leaders are critical to ...
Mid and Late Career Issues: An Integrative Perspective
1st Edition
By Mo Wang, Deborah A. Olson, Kenneth S Shultz
December 10, 2019
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 ...
Employee Retention and Turnover: Why Employees Stay or Leave
1st Edition
By Peter W. Hom, David G. Allen, Rodger W. Griffeth
September 06, 2019
This exploration of what employee turnover is, why it happens, and what it means for companies and employees draws together contemporary and classic theories and research to present a well-rounded perspective on employee retention and turnover. The book uses models such as job embeddedness theory, ...
Teamwork and the Bottom Line: Groups Make A Difference
1st Edition
Edited
By Ned Rosen
January 17, 2019
This volume is based on extensive research findings and the author's observation that successful managers are people who understand the dynamics of group interaction and can use that understanding effectively to motivate members of their group to achieve important goals. Blending theory, research, ...