Books in the Applied Psychology Series series

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.

This book is a landmark in showing how industrial-organizational psychology and related fields contribute to environmental sustainability in organizations. Industrial-organizational psychology embraces a scientist/practitioner model: evidence-based best practice to solve real-world issues.

Leadership in today's organizations is a tough business. Organizational leaders face a number of challenges as their jobs, and the world around them, become increasingly complex. This volume brings together the latest research on the topic from scholars across the world.

This volume aims to show how human resource practitioners can use structured task statements and rating scales to gain the perspective needed to map the domain of any job. The book focuses on the seven scales used in Functional Job Analysis.

Scholars and practitioners focus 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.

This work applies recent theory and research in social cognition to assessments used in personnel selection, appraisal, and development. Key areas such as teamwork, negotiations, and cross-cultural relationships are also discussed.

This book is a landmark in showing how industrial-organizational psychology and related fields contribute to environmental sustainability in organizations. Industrial-organizational psychology embraces a scientist/practitioner model: evidence-based best practice to solve real-world issues.

This new handbook, with contributions from experts around the world, is the most comprehensive treatise of work design and job analysis practice and research in over 20 years. The handbook, dedicated to Sidney Gael, is the next generation of Gael 's successful Job Analysis Handbook for Business, Industry and Government published by Wiley in 1988. It consists of four parts: Methods, Systems, Applications and Research /Innovations. Finally, a tightly integrated, user friendly handbook of interest to students, practitioners and researchers in the field of Industrial Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management.

Analyzes the criticisms of the research on Emotional Intelligence (EI). This book looks at emotional intelligence research and EI interventions from a scientific and measurement perspective, and identifies ways of improving the often shaky foundations of our conceptions of emotional intelligence.

First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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.

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This practical guide contains methodologically-grounded descriptions of how to successfully undertake individual assessment which is a professional practice important to Human Resource Managers, executives and anyone making decisions about employees.

Takes a comparative look at leaders who were considered charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic in an effort to uncover what constitutes "outstanding leadership." This study includes a qualitative analysis of select leader's lives, and the practical implications observed of the various types.

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.

This edited volume will look at new approaches for enhancing the work-family interface individually and in the firm. It will look at ways to improve quality of life for women and men in the work forces globally. The contributors offer international resea

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.