Personality and Identity at Work Books

New and Published Books

1. The Entrepreneurial Personality

   A Social Construction, 2nd Edition

   By Elizabeth Chell

   Is there such a thing as an 'entrepreneurial personality'? What makes someone an entrepreneur is a question that has intrigued the lay person and the scholar for many years, but can such a personality be identified or is it simply a socially constructed phenomenon? Elizabeth Chell pursues an...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Personality and Organizations

   Edited by Benjamin Schneider, D. Brent Smith

   Series: Series in Organization and Management

   Personality has always been a predictor of performance. This book of original chapters is designed to fulfill a need for a contemporary treatment of human personality in work organizations. Bringing together top scholars in the field, this book provides a comprehensive study of the role of...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
3. 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
4. Women as Political Leaders

   Studies in Gender and Governing

   Edited by Michael A. Genovese, Janie S. Steckenrider

   Series: LEADERSHIP: Research and Practice

   Over the past several years, the fields of Leadership Studies and of Women's Studies have grown tremendously. This book, which is a series of case studies of women who have headed governments across the globe, will discuss the conditions and situations under which women rose to power and give...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Artifacts and Organizations

   Beyond Mere Symbolism

   Edited by Anat Rafaeli, Michael G. Pratt

   Series: Series in Organization and Management

   Artifacts in organizations are ubiquitous but often overlooked. The chapters in this book illustrate that artifacts are everywhere in organizational life. They prevail in how offices are decorated, language is used, business cards are designed, and office cartoons are displayed. In addition,...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
6. The People Make the Place

   Dynamic Linkages Between Individuals and Organizations

   Edited by D. Brent Smith

   Series: Series in Organization and Management

   This volume, in honor of Ben Schneider, highlights his work on the Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) model of organizational behavior which has become one of the most important models in the history of Personnel Psychology. The central tenet of the ASA model is that people matter. Although...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Psychology Press
7. Group Processes

   Edited by John M. Levine

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   It is impossible to understand human behavior without understanding the critical role that groups play in people’s lives. Most of us belong to a range of formal and informal groups, including families, work teams, and friendship cliques. These groups absorb a great deal of our time and energy and...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Psychology Press
8. Perspectives on Organizational Fit

   Edited by Cheri Ostroff, Timothy A. Judge

   Series: SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series

   This book concerns how employees consider their work lives, how well they fit their jobs, the work setting, other people, and what is important and valued in their organizations. Perspectives on Organizational Fit, a new book in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series, takes a scholarly look at fit...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press
9. Emotional Labor in the 21st Century

   Diverse Perspectives on Emotion Regulation at Work

   Edited by Alicia Grandey, James Diefendorff, Deborah E. Rupp

   Series: Series in Organization and Management

   This book reviews, integrates, and synthesizes research on emotional labor and emotion regulation conducted over the past 30 years. The concept of emotional labor was first proposed by Dr. Arlie Russell Hochschild (1983), who defined it as "the management of feeling to create a publicly observable...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
10. Personal Relationships

    The Effect on Employee Attitudes, Behavior, and Well-being

    Edited by Lillian Turner de Tormes Eby, Tammy D. Allen

    Series: SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series

    We know that positive, fulfilling and satisfying relationships are strong predictors of life satisfaction, psychological health, and physical well-being. This edited volume uses research and theory on the need to belong as a foundation to explore various types of relationships, with an emphasis on...

    Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge