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Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Second Edition updates the first edition with the latest creative and scholarly views of I-O psychology to provide a complete, up-to-date understanding of this discipline's history within a contemporary context.

Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Second Edition updates the first edition with the latest creative and scholarly views of I-O psychology to provide a complete, up-to-date understanding of this discipline's history within a contemporary context.

Revised edition of Developing organizational simulations, 2004.

Suggests the workplace as an arena for change, proposing that it adapt to the situations of workers by providing flexibility and understanding the needs and priorities of families. This book also examines employer and governmental initiatives affecting work and family life in the United States.

This volume aims to show how human resource practitioners can use structured task statements and rating scales to gain the perspective needed to map the domain of any job. The book focuses on the seven scales used in Functional Job Analysis.

Showing how to choose, develop, and administer effective staffing procedures, including conducting job analyses, measuring job performance, identifying predictors of performance that are valid and legally defensible, and using this information to make sound hiring decisions, this book explains how organizations can gain a competitive advantage.

Takes a comparative look at leaders who were considered charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic in an effort to uncover what constitutes "outstanding leadership." This study includes a qualitative analysis of select leader's lives, and the practical implications observed of the various types.

This practical guide contains methodologically-grounded descriptions of how to successfully undertake individual assessment which is a professional practice important to Human Resource Managers, executives and anyone making decisions about employees.

Provides a review and analysis of the theoretical and empirical research that has examined the interconnections among the domains of family life and the workplace. Documenting the economy patterns, this book also looks at the health of communities and neighborhoods, exploring the extent to which such services meet the needs of working families.

This study explores how leaders gain and use self-knowledge for continuous improvement and career development and describes how leaders help themselves and the people with whom they work, understand themselves, and become more self-determined, continuous learners, and make the most of resources.

This work examines topics that are considered to be especially relevant for making a strategic leader development investment. The areas covered have theoretical and empirical connections to important aspects of growth, change, adult development, and underlying abilities and skills.

Explores the evolution of the goals of assessment center programs and the ways in which assessment centers and their component parts have been used. This book differentiates between assessment centers used for prediction, diagnoses, and development. It also explores court cases involving assessment centers, assessor training, and more.

This work addresses issues of sex and gender in work and should be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, managers, and economists. It brings together the traditional management perspective with the recent feminist perspective.

This work demonstrates how managers can be effective in gathering and processing performance information about subordinates, making ratings on performance appraisals and multisource feedback surveys and feeding back this information in a way that is nonthreatening and leads to productive change.

Positive psychological science has experienced extraordinary growth over the past two decades. Research in this area is revealing new strategies and interventions for improving everyday life, health and well-being, work, education, and societies across the globe.

Positive psychological science has experienced extraordinary growth over the past two decades. Research in this area is revealing new strategies and interventions for improving everyday life, health and well-being, work, education, and societies across the globe.

This handbook brings together into a single volume the diverse areas of work psychology where personality constructs have been applied and investigated, providing expert review and analysis based on the latest advances in the field.

Today we often look to our leaders in business, government, or the social sector, to make effective decisions in a complex world. Whether they are asked what steps to take to improve competitiveness in a global economy or to make tough ethical choices, well-trained leaders are critical to organizational effectiveness. Although we know much about leadership development for individuals after they take their first job, we know relatively little about their earlier experiences that contributed to their interest in leadership or subsequent effectiveness as leaders. This volume brings together researchers who explore leadership at different points before individuals enter the workforce and asks important questions surrounding definitions of leadership behavior, necessary leader skills and age-related leader tasks, factors contributing to development of leader identity, and ways to improve the process of leader development.　 With contributions from well-known leadership researchers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, Bruce Avolio, and Susan Komives, the volume shows research evidence for factors such as early childhood and youth experiences on leadership development, which have implications for the way we understand and train leadership in today’s organizations.　

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.