New Books from Psychology Press and Routledge

July-September 2012

Work & Organizational Psychology

  1. Creativity and Strategic Innovation Management

    By Malcolm Goodman, Sandra M. Dingli

    Many organizations in both the private and public sector are confronted with stiff challenges as they face rapid changes in the business environment. Understanding the causes of these changes is essential if organizations are to fashion suitable management responses. In a highly competitive and...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge

  2. 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

  3. Exploring Distance in Leader-Follower Relationships

    When Near is Far and Far is Near

    Edited by Michelle C. Bligh, Ronald E. Riggio

    Series: LEADERSHIP: Research and Practice

    Leaders face new challenges as they cope with changes in culture, technology and the workplace. In this edited volume, based on a conference at Claremont, scholars of leadership studies from three continents discuss the latest psychological research on interpersonal leader–follower relations. The...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Goal-Focused Coaching

    Theory and Practice

    By Yossi Ives, Elaine Cox

    This book offers a comprehensive, practical guide to goal-focused coaching. Addressing a significant gap in the literature, Ives and Cox contextualize goal-focused coaching within the broader coaching framework and explain the efficacy of this approach across a number of contexts and applications....

    Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  5. Integrating Organizational Behavior Management with Industrial and Organizational Psychology

    Edited by C. Merle Johnson, Terry Beehr

    This book examines the intersection of Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) and Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I/O Psychology). It argues that, whilst OBM and I/O Psychology have developed simultaneously, they have done so with minimal integration. I/O Psychology, a somewhat older...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Mid and Late Career Issues

    An Integrative Perspective

    By Mo Wang, Deborah A. Olson, Kenneth S. Shultz

    Series: Applied Psychology Series

    This new book looks at the unique career issues faced by those workers in their mid and late career stages, particularly with regard to the psychosocial dynamics of mid and late careers. With the growth in aging workers worldwide, we need a deeper understanding of the unique challenges and issues...

    Published September 6th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology

    Measurement, Design and Data Analysis

    Edited by Robert R. Sinclair, Mo Wang, Lois E. Tetrick

    Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology: Measurement, Design, and Data Analysis provides a state-of-the-art review of current issues and best practices in the science of Occupational Health Psychology. Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) is a multidisciplinary and rapidly growing area...

    Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Snapshots of Great Leadership

    By Jon P. Howell

    Series: LEADERSHIP: Research and Practice

    This is a great book describing leaders (both good and bad) who either have accomplished amazing feats or who brought destruction or death to scores of people. Although the goals of these individuals were often quite different, the leadership processes they used were frequently similar. ...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge

  9. The Power of Writing in Organizations

    From Letters to Online Interactions

    By Anne-Laure Fayard, Anca Metiu

    Series: Series in Organization and Management

    This book demonstrates the power of writing in informal and formal organizations in the past and the present. It shows how writing, despite long lasting criticisms that can be traced back to Plato, and in spite of its frequent definition as a mere recording medium is in fact a creative mode of...

    Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge