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Personnel Selection, Assessment, and Human Resource Management

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Our Racist Heart?

Racial and Other Unconscious Biases in Everyday Life

Our Racist Heart?
  • By Geoffrey Beattie.

Published July 2012

Few people today would admit to being a racist, or to making assumptions about individuals based on their skin colour, or on their gender or social class. In this book, a leading psychologist and researcher in the area of implicit attitudes asks if prejudice, more subtle than before, is still a…
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The Psychology of Assessment Centers

The Psychology of Assessment Centers
  • Edited by Duncan Jackson, Charles Lance and Brian Hoffman.

Published June 2012

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Improving Organizational Interventions For Stress and Well-Being

Addressing Process and Context

Improving Organizational Interventions For Stress and Well-Being
  • Edited by Caroline Biron, Maria Karanika-Murray and Cary Cooper.

Published May 2012

This book brings together a number of experts in the field of organizational interventions for stress and well-being, and discusses the importance of process and context issues to the success or failure of such interventions. The book explores how context and process can be incorporated into…
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The Handbook of Work Analysis

Methods, Systems, Applications and Science of Work Measurement in Organizations

The Handbook of Work Analysis
  • Edited by Mark Alan Wilson, Winston Bennett, Jr., Shanan Gwaltney Gibson and George Michael Alliger.

Published April 2012

This new handbook, with contributions from experts around the world, is the most comprehensive treatise on 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…
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The Employee-Organization Relationship

Applications for the 21st Century

The Employee-Organization Relationship
  • Edited by Lynn M. Shore, Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro and Lois E. Tetrick.

Published February 2012

"Employee-organization relationship" is an overarching term that describes the relationship between the employee and the organization. It encompasses psychological contracts, perceived organizational support, and the employment relationship. Remarkable progress has been made in the last 30 years in…
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Nepotism in Organizations

Nepotism in Organizations
  • Edited by Robert G. Jones.

Published September 2011

There is a huge elephant in the room: organizational decisions are often based on family relationships, rather than on the ‘rational’ approach advocated by many professionals. Textbooks on Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Economics, Public Administration, and a host of related…
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Assessment, Measurement, and Prediction for Personnel Decisions

Assessment, Measurement, and Prediction for Personnel Decisions
  • By Robert M. Guion.

Published February 2011

Robert Guion’s best seller is now available in this new second edition. This noted book offers a comprehensive and practical view of assessment –based personnel decisions not available elsewhere in a single source. This edition more frankly evaluates the current research and practice and presents…
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EEO Law and Personnel Practices, Third Edition

EEO Law and Personnel Practices, Third Edition
  • By Arthur Gutman, Laura L. Koppes and Stephen J. Vodanovich.

Published October 2010

The goal of this well known book is to provide methods for understanding major EEO laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. Also included are over 700 cases involving federal case law that focus on issues relating to…
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Refocusing School Leadership

Foregrounding Human Development throughout the Work of the School

Refocusing School Leadership
  • By Robert J. Starratt.

Published August 2010

Refocusing School Leadership departs from the more traditional conceptualization of leadership, looking behind the daily routines of human resource leaders to highlight the assumptions and values and beliefs they bring to their work as well as the values and meanings embedded in the various…
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Handbook of Employee Selection

Handbook of Employee Selection
  • Edited by James L. Farr, and Nancy T. Tippins.

Published March 2010

The Handbook of Employee Selection summarizes the state of science and practice in the field of employee selection. Chapters in this book cover issues associated with measurement such as validity and reliability as well as practical concerns around the development of appropriate selection…
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