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.
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Work and Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural, and Individual Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Ellen Ernst Kossek, Susan J. Lambert
November 05, 2004
Work-family researchers have had much success in encouraging both organizations and individuals to recognize the importance of achieving greater balance in life. Work and Life Integration addresses the intersect between work, life, and family in new and interesting ways. It discusses current ...
Leader Development for Transforming Organizations: Growing Leaders for Tomorrow
1st Edition
By David V. Day, Stephen J. Zaccaro, Stanley M. Halpin
January 22, 2004
This book examines numerous topic areas that are considered to be especially relevant for making a strategic leader development investment. The topics covered are areas that have theoretical and empirical connections to important aspects of growth, change, adult development, and underlying ...
Individual Assessment: As Practiced in Industry and Consulting
1st Edition
By Kristin O. Prien, Kristin O. Prien, Jeffery S. Schippmann
April 01, 2003
Individual Assessment is a professional practice important to Human Resource Managers, Executives and anyone making decisions about employees. Finally, we now have a clear, practical guide with methodologically-grounded descriptions of how to successfully do it. The authors have put together a ...
Multiple Commitments in the Workplace: An Integrative Approach
1st Edition
By Aaron Cohen
January 01, 2003
The growing interest in multiple commitments among researchers and practitioners is evinced by the greater attention in the literature to the broader concept of work commitment. This includes specific objects of commitment, such as organization, work group, occupation, the union, and one's job. In ...
Leadership Development: Paths To Self-insight and Professional Growth
1st Edition
By Manuel London
September 01, 2001
Leadership Development explores how leaders gain and use self-knowledge for continuous improvement and career development and describes how leaders help themselves and the people with whom they work, understand themselves, and become more self-determined, continuous learners, and make the most of ...
How People Evaluate Others in Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuel London
April 01, 2001
Evaluating and making decisions about other people are key aspects of doing business, especially for managers and human resource professionals. Industrial and organizational psychologists devise systematic methods to remove human errors in judgment, such as biases and stereotypes. However many ...
Justice in the Workplace: From theory To Practice, Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Russell Cropanzano
December 01, 2000
Justice in the Workplace acts as a central reference point for application of organizational justice and helps human resource managers relate the importance of justice to their work environments. Forming much of this book's content, outcomes, processes, and interpersonal treatment are three ...
Women and Men in Organizations: Sex and Gender Issues at Work
1st Edition
By Jeanette N. Cleveland, Margaret Stockdale, Kevin R. Murphy, Barbara A. Gutek
January 01, 2000
The gender and racial composition of the American workforce is rapidly changing. As more women in particular enter the workforce and as they enter jobs that have traditionally been dominated by men, issues related to sex and gender in work settings have become increasingly important and complex. ...
Team Performance Assessment and Measurement: Theory, Methods, and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael T. Brannick, Eduardo Salas, Carolyn W. Prince
June 01, 1997
This book began at a conference on team performance measurement held at the University of South Florida. Several participants at the conference felt that a book on team performance measurement would be of interest to a broader audience, and they began looking for authors in diverse disciplines. ...
Benchmark Tasks for Job Analysis: A Guide for Functional Job Analysis (fja) Scales
1st Edition
By Sidney A. Fine, Maury Getkate
September 01, 1995
Human resource practitioners are repeatedly faced with the challenge of effectively using language to clearly describe the work performed on a job. Functional Job Analysis--an internationally recognized and respected job analysis method --has been meeting this challenge for more than forty years. ...
Teamwork and the Bottom Line: Groups Make A Difference
1st Edition
Edited
By Ned Rosen
February 01, 1989
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, ...
Advances in Applied Social Psychology: Volume 2
1st Edition
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By R. F. Kidd, M. J. Saks
June 01, 1983
First Published in 1983. This volume is the second in a series of volumes on applied social psychology. The contents of the contributions represent the richly diverse approaches and settings in which social psychology is being used. In preparing their chapters, the contributors were asked to focus ...