The Psychology of Effective Management

The Psychology of Effective Management
Author: Fred Voskoboynikov
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1315511282

The Psychology of Effective Management combines basic psychological principles with practical recommendations for building positive and productive manager-employee relations. Each recommendation is based on real-life situations taken from respected scholars in the field, as well as the author’s own professional experiences. With particular attention to the human element of management, the practical advice presented in this book is aimed at helping managers create a positive psychological environment in the workplace and lead their employees into a productive and satisfying professional life. The content is presented in an easy-to-follow format so that any manager can put his or her knowledge immediately into practice. By striking a compelling balance between the science and practice of management, this will be an indispensable resource for managers, administrators, and business owners at all levels as well as students of business and management.

Organizational Psychology in Cross Cultural Perspective

Organizational Psychology in Cross Cultural Perspective
Author: Colin P. Silverthorne
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0814739865

The last two decades have seen an explosive increase in the ethnic diversity of the workforce, growth in international business, and the emergence of many more multinational companies. The potential for problems as companies operate across borders and managers manage in countries which have different values, norms and cultural behaviors is great. By looking at organizational psychology in a cross-cultural context, we can gain an understanding of the challenges facing organizations and business today. This text breaks new ground in introducing organizational psychology from a cross cultural perspective. It provides a foundational overview of the current major theories in organizational psychology, and illuminates the impact of cultural differences on organizational dynamics. It also makes available specific research concerning our current understandings of how these dynamics play out in particular regions and countries, such as autocratic versus democratic leadership styles in Africa and Europe or conflict management in Asia. The volume offers a welcome introduction to the topic to those in industrial/organizational psychology, international relations and management, and international business/MBA programs focusing on international issues.

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Author: Cary L. Cooper
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000-07-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780631209928

By bringing together leading industrial and organisational psychologists, this book helps explore the relationship between the theory of industrial and organizational psychology and the principles applied in 'real' organizations.

Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships

Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships
Author: Meg A. Warren
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1440838313

Providing an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers, this book investigates positive psychology and relationships theory and research across a range of settings and life stages—intimate, work, educational, senior/retirement, and in the context of diversity. Nearly universally, relationships are a key source of what we all seek in life: happiness, fulfillment, and well-being. The experts who contributed to this novel volume apply the framework of positive psychology to the findings of relationships research across a variety of practical contexts. What actions create and sustain respectful, caring, joyous, stimulating, and loving relationships? How do people rich in friendship, intimacy, and interpersonal skills think and behave? How do they unconsciously cultivate positive relationships? This book brings together authoritative reviews, cutting-edge research, and thoughtful scholarship that serve to answer these questions and document the benefit of positive relationships in a variety of settings and across the human life span. Following a comprehensive introduction, the book addresses positive intimate relationships, positive relationships at work, positive relationships during different stages of life (in youth, in adolescence, and among older adults), and positive relationships intersecting with diversity. The chapters underscore the simple concept that relationships are central to what makes life worth living and are fundamental to well-being across all life domains as they play out at home, in school, at work, in retirement homes, and in the community at large.

Business Psychology in Practice

Business Psychology in Practice
Author: Pauline Grant
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2008-09-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0470713720

Organisations are communities. Increasingly the leaders of those communities are drawing on the services of psychologists to help them realise the potential of their “human capital”. What do these business psychologists do to assist in the identification, motivation and development of the talent that employees bring into their communities? The authors, all Principal Members of the Association of Business Psychologists, are experienced and qualified professionals who candidly share their experiences and learning derived from those experiences. They provide case studies and examples from real interventions, they ask provocative questions about conventional thinking and practice and they explain the models that help them make sense of the complex organisations in which they operate. Business Psychology in Practice takes us on an excursion behind the scenes in organisations. This book will be of interest to consultants, those who commission their services and anybody wrestling with ‘people issues’.

Consumerology, New Edition

Consumerology, New Edition
Author: Philip Graves
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-01-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1857889231

Philip Graves explores the “mind gap” between conscious and unconscious thought – and behavior

Psychological Assessment in the Workplace

Psychological Assessment in the Workplace
Author: Mark Cook
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2005-06-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0470861606

This book covers the assessment of people within the workplace. Written in jargon free language, it offers a guide to psychological assessment that can be used by managers in their everyday work. Each chapter will specifically cover an assessment practice and then explore the issues surrounding it, following this discussion with a case study. Ideas for test selection, guidance on assessment centre practice and illustrations of successfully worked exercises are also included.

The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships

The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships
Author: Ellen S. Berscheid
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317345029

This textbook provides an integrated and organized foundation for students seeking a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of relationship science. It emphasizes the relationship field's intellectual themes, roots, and milestones; discusses its key constructs and their conceptualizations; describes its methodologies and classic studies; and, most important, presents the theories that have guided relationship scholars and produced the field's major research themes.

The Inner Winner

The Inner Winner
Author: Simon Hazeldine
Publisher: Book Shaker
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2012-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781905430628

"The Inner Winner" contains proven performance psychology tactics that can beused to enhance performance in sport, business, and life in general.