Bücher der Reihe Applied Psychology Series

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.

Today we often look to our leaders in business, government, or the social sector, to make effective decisions in a complex world. Whether they are asked what steps to take to improve competitiveness in a global economy or to make tough ethical choices, well-trained leaders are critical to organizational effectiveness. Although we know much about leadership development for individuals after they take their first job, we know relatively little about their earlier experiences that contributed to their interest in leadership or subsequent effectiveness as leaders. This volume brings together researchers who explore leadership at different points before individuals enter the workforce and asks important questions surrounding definitions of leadership behavior, necessary leader skills and age-related leader tasks, factors contributing to development of leader identity, and ways to improve the process of leader development.　 With contributions from well-known leadership researchers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, Bruce Avolio, and Susan Komives, the volume shows research evidence for factors such as early childhood and youth experiences on leadership development, which have implications for the way we understand and train leadership in today’s organizations.　

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is the first comprehensive systematic description in English if the Russian Theory of Ergonomics and Human Factors.

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

Presents a working model of FJA & how data is collected & integrated with management procedures. Offers an application of FJA to practical human resource management problems. Of interest to human resource managers & indust./organizational psychologists.

The book deals with the concept of Heavy Work Investment (HWI) recently initiated by Snir and Harpaz. Since its introduction the interest in the general HWI model has increased considerably. The book illustrates the development of HWI conceptualization, theory, and research. It deals with the foremost HWI subtype of workaholism. However, it also compares workaholism as a "negative" HWI subtype with work devotion/passion/engagement, as a "positive" HWI subtype. Most importantly, it addresses HWI in general, including its possible situational subtypes. In view of Snir and Harpaz's claim that the study of situational heavy work investors is relatively scarce, this certainly constitutes a promising step in the right direction. Finally, it deals with timely and important topics examined by prominent international researchers on Heavy Work Investment and such issues as: personality factors of workaholism, work-life balance, cross-cultural similarities and differences in HWI, work addiction and technology, HWI and retirement, and intergenerational similarity in work investment.

The book deals with the concept of Heavy Work Investment (HWI) recently initiated by Snir and Harpaz. Since its introduction the interest in the general HWI model has increased considerably. The book illustrates the development of HWI conceptualization, theory, and research. It deals with the foremost HWI subtype of workaholism. However, it also compares workaholism as a "negative" HWI subtype with work devotion/passion/engagement, as a "positive" HWI subtype. Most importantly, it addresses HWI in general, including its possible situational subtypes. In view of Snir and Harpaz's claim that the study of situational heavy work investors is relatively scarce, this certainly constitutes a promising step in the right direction. Finally, it deals with timely and important topics examined by prominent international researchers on Heavy Work Investment and such issues as: personality factors of workaholism, work-life balance, cross-cultural similarities and differences in HWI, work addiction and technology, HWI and retirement, and intergenerational similarity in work investment.

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.

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. Trends, such as organizational "delayering," rapid technological advances, and increased employee empowerment require that leaders adapt their techniques and styles of leadership to meet these new challenges. Consequently, there has been an explosion of interest in leadership in recent years as researchers and management educators struggle to understand the process of leadership development, how it operates, and what characteristics make effective leaders. Born of these questions, the 11th Annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference at Claremont McKenna College brought together an impressive slate of scholars whose theories, research, and cutting-edge techniques are now gathered together in this impressive volume. Each chapter asks and answers questions about the current state of the field while providing future direction for research to help bridge the gap between leadership researchers and leadership development practitioners. Notable topics include chapters on "e-leadership" and leadership within the "virtual" organization, exploring 360-degree feedback, the importance of "social capital," and a comprehensive analysis of the well-researched theory of Leader Member Exchange.

Validity Generalization(VG)research suggests that fundamental relationships among tests & criteria& the constructs they represent are simpler & more regular than they appear.This book will look @ the history of the VG model & its impact on personnel psyc

This text is a comprehensive and systematic description of the Russian theory of activity, which is a theory that studies the goal-directed behaviour of man and attempts to integrate the cognitive, motivational and behavioural aspects of activity into a holistic system.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 work demonstrates how managers can be effective in gathering and processing performance information about subordinates, making ratings on performance appraisals and multisource feedback surveys and feeding back this information in a way that is nonthreatening and leads to productive change.

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 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.

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.