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  1. Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations

    Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

    Edited by Laura Morgan Roberts, Jane E. Dutton

    Series: Series in Organization and Management

    In the new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is consequential and challenging for individuals, for groups and for organizations. New challenges for positive identity construction and maintenance require new theory. This edited volume uncovers new topics...

    Published May 27th 2009 by Psychology Press

  2. The Routledge Companion to Creativity

    Edited by Tudor Rickards, Mark A. Runco, Susan Moger

    Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

    Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood, and used, in a range of contexts. The book not only centres on creativity in wider organizational...

    Published November 19th 2008 by Routledge

  3. 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 May 8th 2008 by Routledge

  4. Personality and Intelligence at Work

    Exploring and Explaining Individual Differences at Work

    By Adrian Furnham

    Personality and Intelligence at Work examines the increasingly controversial role of individual differences in predicting and determining behaviour at work. It combines approaches from organizational psychology and personality theory to critically examine the physical, psychological and...

    Published March 25th 2008 by Routledge

  5. Identity and the Modern Organization

    Edited by Caroline A. Bartel, Steven Blader, Amy Wrzesniewski

    Series: Series in Organization and Management

    Identity and the Modern Organization presents a lively exchange of ideas among psychology and management scholars on the realities of modern organizational life and their effect on the identities that organizations and their members cultivate. This book bridges the domains of psychology and...

    Published February 21st 2007 by Psychology Press

  6. Personal Project Pursuit

    Goals, Action, and Human Flourishing

    Edited by Brian R. Little, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Susan D. Phillips

    Personal Project Pursuit is the first book to feature Brian Little's highly respected personal projects analysis (PPA), one of the pioneering theories in contemporary personality and motivational psychology. The book examines both the internal and external dynamics of personal goals and projects...

    Published August 14th 2006 by Psychology Press

  7. Personality and the Fate of Organizations

    By Robert Hogan

    Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and style, team performance, and overall organizational effectiveness. In Personality and the Fate of Organizations, author Robert Hogan offers a...

    Published June 20th 2006 by Psychology Press

  8. Organizational Perception Management

    By Kimberly D. Elsbach

    Series: Series in Organization and Management

    This book summarizes the research findings from the relatively new domain of study called "organizational perception management" (OPM). While perception management has been studied at the individual level since the 1960's, organization-level perception management was first examined in the 1980's in...

    Published March 28th 2006 by Psychology Press

  9. 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 February 29th 2004 by Psychology Press