Bücher der Reihe Advanced Topics in Organizational Behavior

Examines recent innovations in manufacturing technologies, techniques and philosophies and how these affect work design, research and practice.

What is a committed employee? Are such employees better or worse off than uncommitted employees? What are the organizational advantages and disadvantages of having a committed workforce?This book overviews academic and popular perspectives on commitment in employees. It examines the multiple faces of commitment and the links that have been established between the various forms of commitment and organizational behaviour. In addition, questions concerning individual differences, organizational characteristics, job characteristics and work experiences associated with commitment are explored. The volume concludes with a discussion of what organizations can do to manage commitment effectively, including under difficult circumstances such as merger/acquisition, downsizing and relocation.

Critical assessment of the effectiveness of employee participation in organizational decision making.

This book provides recent real-life case studies, and offers practical guidance and recommendations for assessing the risks of workplace violence and preventing it. Substantial appendices cover: zero tolerance policies; sample survey and audit instruments; post office violence;the results of an important US national and local survey;state and federal guidelines on violence.

Steve Jex provides a comprehensive research-based examination of the relationship between occupational stress and job performance.

Applying an integrative framework, the authors review 20 years' worth of empirical and theoretical research in an attempt to reconcile often conflicting conceptual models and competing empirical results. This book presents much of the relevant research in the context of the critical strategic decisions that executives are often forced to make with regard to human resource investments and developments.