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Latest Brochure: New Books in Industrial, Organizational & Work Psychology, 2009-2010
The Psychology Press Industrial, Organizational and Work Psychology catalogue 2008–2009 is now available.
This annual brochure includes new and key backlist titles in Industrial, Organizational and Work Psychology from Psychology Press and Routledge.
If you would like to receive a free copy of this catalogue please fill in our catalogue request form.
The Work and Organizational Psychology Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Work and Organizational Psychology books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.
Subjects covered by this Arena include: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Organizational Communication, Leadership, Executive Coaching, Personality and Identity at Work, Stress and Emotion in the Workplace, Work and Leisure, Work Motivation, Personnel Selection, Human Resource Management, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology Tests and Assessments.
Work and Organizational Psychology News:
25th Annual SIOP Conference
The 25th Annual SIOP Conference will take place in Atlanta, GA, on April 8th-10th, 2010.
Visit the Psychology Press/Routledge booth (1215) at this year's Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology conference to take advantage of our 20% conference discount and free shipping on all of our books.
Work Engagement: A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research
This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work.
The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far-reaching implications for work-life.
It discusses the sources of work engagement and the implications of work engagement for the employee and the organization, and provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques.
Group and Team Coaching: The Essential Guide
This book offers a new perspective on the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate with each other in groups.
Describing these processes in the context of modern organisational life, it provides practical advice about how to do group and team coaching.
Introducing key concepts from psychology, group analysis and systems theory, it gives practical guidance on core areas of group coaching: team coaching, group supervision, action learning sets and other learning groups.
New: Handbook of Employee Selection
This volume provides a comprehensive review of a) contemporary personnel selection instruments, including the technical methodology for their development and evaluation of their effectiveness, b) the organizational systems necessary for the effective and efficient use of personnel selection methods as part of organizations’ human resource management approach, and c) the societal and organizational factors that provide the context within which personnel selection is nested.
Download free of charge Chapter 30: Perspectives From Twenty-Two Countries on the Legal Environment for Selection (PDF).
more about the Handbook of Employee Selection / order online
New: The Joy of Work? Jobs, Happiness, and You
Are you happy at work? Or do you just grin and bear it?
We spend an average of 25% of our lives at work, so it’s important to make the best of it.
The Joy of Work? looks at happiness and unhappiness from a fresh perspective, drawing on up-to-date research on the causes and consequences of low job satisfaction, and suggesting strategies for how to get more enjoyment from work…