Books in the Applied Psychology Series series

Explores the evolution of the goals of assessment center programs and the ways in which assessment centers and their component parts have been used. This book differentiates between assessment centers used for prediction, diagnoses, and development. It also explores court cases involving assessment centers, assessor training, and more.

This handbook brings together into a single volume the diverse areas of work psychology where personality constructs have been applied and investigated, providing expert review and analysis based on the latest advances in the field.

This handbook brings together into a single volume the diverse areas of work psychology where personality constructs have been applied and investigated, providing expert review and analysis based on the latest advances in the field.

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The entrance of women into managerial positions in significant numbers brings work and family issues to center stage, shifting the spotlight from issues of entry and equality of access to the consideration of the work-family conflicts and the difficulties posed on female managers.

Designed to motivate both the further development of models concerned with the influence of cultural diversity on several Human Resource Management processes and practices and the design and conduct of empirical research on the same topic.

This volume examines the nature of human error - its causes and origins, its classification, and the extent to which it is possible to predict and prevent errors and their impact. It draws into a single cohesive account, contributions from experts in a range of disciplines.

A new edition of important work on Justice in the workplace. Part 1 discusses issues historically Part 11 applies the theory to important human resource management issues. Part 3 looks at organizational justice in the future.

Provides a review and analysis of the theoretical and empirical research that has examined the interconnections among the domains of family life and the workplace. Documenting the economy patterns, this book also looks at the health of communities and neighborhoods, exploring the extent to which such services meet the needs of working families.

Scholars and practitioners focuses solely on the problem of team performance measurement in this book. There are examples from several different kinds of teams, including aircrews, nuclear power plant operators, hospital workers, ship combat information centre groups, and theatre technicians.

Insidious workplace behavior is intentionally harmful workplace behavior that is legal, subtle and low level, repeated over time, and directed at individuals or organizations. This book describes the causes and consequences of such behavior in its many different forms. It is useful to professors and graduate level management students.

This work examines topics that are considered to be especially relevant for making a strategic leader development investment. The areas covered have theoretical and empirical connections to important aspects of growth, change, adult development, and underlying abilities and skills.

This work presents a critical review of validity generalization (VG). Looking at the history of the VG model and its impact on personnel psychology, scholars and researchers of the field review the accomplishments of the model, as well as the continuing controversies.

Showing how to choose, develop, and administer effective staffing procedures, including conducting job analyses, measuring job performance, identifying predictors of performance that are valid and legally defensible, and using this information to make sound hiring decisions, this book explains how organizations can gain a competitive advantage.

Addresses the intersect between work, life, and family; discusses current challenges in dealing with work-life integration issues and sets the stage for future research agendas.

This work addresses issues of sex and gender in work and should be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, managers, and economists. It brings together the traditional management perspective with the recent feminist perspective.

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This study 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 resources.

This bk is about experiences w/a survey program that has guided management decisions &actions in a wide array of industrial settings.Frank Smith has a 40yr history as a director of the Sears Emplyess Attitude Survey Dept. His wide experience lends alot t

This text presents basic and applied research that addresses the effects of stress on performance. It focuses on the effects of stress in task performance, decision making, and team interaction as well as the interventions used to overcome them.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition takes up many of the same critical topics addressed in the first edition, and incorporates twelve new authors across the volume and three brand new chapters on recruitment and retention, legal issues, and global issues in work and aging.

Brings together internationally recognized leaders in the field and each focuses on the nature of work and the demands being placed on assessment and measurement as core organizational activities. This book provides pointers to not only the practical implications of work in the field, but also to the issues to be addressed and researched.

Bullying in the workplace is a phenomenon that has recently intrigued researchers studying management and organizational issues, leading to such questions as why it occurs and what causes such harassment. This volume written by experts in a wide range of fields including Industrial and Organizational psychology, Counseling, Management, Law, Education and Health presents research on relational and social aggression issues which can result in lost productivity, employee turnover and costly lawsuits. Understanding this phenomenon is important to managers and employee morale.

The goal of this book is to summarize and advance the thinking of critical issues related to skill retention and decay in the context of individual and team training on complex tasks.

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.