Work & Organizational Psychology Books

New and Published Books

1. Handbook of Personality at Work

   Edited by Neil Christiansen, Robert Tett

   Series: Applied Psychology Series

   Personality has emerged as a key factor when trying to understand why people think, feel, and behave the way they do at work. Recent research has linked personality to important aspects of work such as job performance, employee attitudes, leadership, teamwork, stress, and turnover. This...

   Published June 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. Creativity and Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation

   Edited by Sven Hemlin, Carl Martin Allwood, Ben Martin, Michael D. Mumford

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Leadership is vital to creativity and successful innovation in groups and organizations; leadership is however seldom studied in the academic literature as a creativity driver. One reason for the lack of attention paid to leadership’s effect on creativity may be the common belief that creativity...

   Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Adverse Impact

   Implications for Organizational Staffing and High Stakes Selection

   Edited by James L. Outtz

   Series: SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series

   This text is the best single repository for a comprehensive examination of the scientific research and practical issues associated with adverse impact. Adverse impact occurs when there is a significant difference in organizational outcomes to the disadvantage of one or more groups defined on the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Commitment in Organizations

   Accumulated Wisdom and New Directions

   Edited by Howard J. Klein, Thomas E. Becker, John P. Meyer

   Series: SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series

   Commitment is one of the most researched concepts in organizational behavior. This edited book in the SIOP Organizational Frontiers series, with contributions from many scholars, attempts to summarize current research and suggests new directions for studies on commitment in organizations....

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Handbook of Vocational Psychology

   Theory, Research, and Practice, 4th Edition

   Edited by W. Bruce Walsh, Mark L. Savickas, Paul J. Hartung

   Handbook of Vocational Psychology identifies, reports, and evaluates significant developments in vocational psychology and career counseling, and in doing so provides both professional clinicians and students with an informed understanding of both the current state and continuing progress in the...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
6. Leading and Managing People in the Dynamic Organization

   By Randal D. Day, Randal D. Day

   Edited by Randall S. Peterson, Elizabeth A. Mannix

   Series: Series in Organization and Management

   The current business environment requires that individuals, teams, and organizations are equipped to cope with an unpredictable marketplace and increasing competition. Organizations are forced to be kinetic, organic, and without boundaries if they are to remain successful. Given these environmental...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
7. Validity Generalization

   A Critical Review

   Edited by Kevin R. Murphy

   Series: Applied Psychology Series

   This volume presents the first wide-ranging critical review of validity generalization (VG)--a method that has dominated the field since the publication of Schmidt and Hunter's (1977) paper "Development of a General Solution to the Problem of Validity Generalization." This paper and the work that...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
8. Managing Uncertainty in Organizational Communication

   By Michael W. Kramer

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   In this book, Michael W. Kramer applies uncertainty reduction theory (URT)--a key theory in current communication scholarship--to the context of organizational communication. Examining URT and the range of research applicable to organizational settings, Kramer proposes a groundbreaking theory of...

   Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Social Psychology at Work (Psychology Revivals)

   Essays in honour of Michael Argyle

   Edited by Peter Collett, Adrian Furnham

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Social psychology has much to offer real world problems, especially in industrial and organizational settings. Originally published in 1995, in Social Psychology at Work leading researchers in their respective fields discuss recent findings and their implications for the commercial world of work....

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Whither Chinese HRM?

    Paradigms, Models and Theories

    Edited by Malcolm Warner

    This symposium explores Chinese people-management as an academic subject, looking at where it is currently going and the likely direction of its progress. After the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China saw the introduction of Human Resource Management (HRM). This book...

    Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge