Work and Organizational Psychology Arena

Tackling Depression at Work

A Practical Guide for Employees and Managers

• By Gordon Parker AO, and Kerrie Eyers.

Published November 2010

If you have depression, do you persevere or do you risk telling your manager? If you are a manager, what can you do to support the employee and ensure the job is done? Figures suggest that more than ten per cent of people in the workforce struggle with depression. Both employees and their managers…
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Developmental Coaching

Life Transitions and Generational Perspectives

• Edited by Stephen Palmer, and Sheila Panchal.

Published November 2010

Developmental Coaching explores many of the common transition points we experience throughout life, including teenage transitions, becoming a parent, mid-life and retirement. This coaching book sets these transitions in their social context and reviews them in the light of generational factors.…
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How Audiences Decide

A Cognitive Approach to Business Communication

• By Richard Young.

Published November 2010

How Audiences Decide: A Cognitive Approach to Business Communication draws on a vast research literature and summarizes relevant theories and findings from the fields of social cognition, consumer behavior, decision science, behavioral finance, affective science, cognitive science, and…
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Metaphors We Lead By

Understanding Leadership in the Real World

• Edited by Mats Alvesson, and André Spicer.

Published November 2010

We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic ill can be mended through better leadership. Sometimes, this commitment to leadership is followed by hero worshipping, wishful thinking and misplaced hope. Seeking to understand the faith we…
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Social Justice and the Experience of Emotion

• By Russell Cropanzano, Jordan H. Stein and Thierry Nadisic.

Published November 2010

This book will seek to integrate the scholarship on justice and affect. The authors focus on empirical social scientific theories pertaining to fairness, mood and emotion. Most of the literature in this book is drawn from social and organizational psychology. Other areas included will be management…
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Gossip and Organizations

• By Kathryn Waddington, and Grant Michelson.

Published October 2010

Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced by different individuals and groups. Gossip and Organizations provides the reader with an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, drawing upon…
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Managing Diversity in the Military

The value of inclusion in a culture of uniformity

• Edited by Daniel P. McDonald, and Kizzy M. Parks.

Published September 2010

This edited book examines the successful management of diversity and inclusion in the military.…
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The New Psychology of Leadership

Identity, Influence and Power

• By S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher and Michael J. Platow.

Published September 2010

According to John Adair, the most important word in the leader's vocabulary is "we" and the least important word is "I". But if this is true, it raises one important question: Why do psychological analyses of leadership always focus on the leader as an individual — as the great "I"? One answer…
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Crisis Communications

A Casebook Approach

• By Kathleen Fearn-Banks.

Published September 2010

Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach presents case studies of organizational, corporate, and individual crises, and analyzes the communication responses to these situations. Demonstrating how professionals prepare for and respond to crises, as well as how they develop communications plans,…
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EEO Law and Personnel Practices, Third Edition

• By Arthur Gutman, Laura L. Koppes and Stephen J. Vodanovich.

Published September 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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