Work and Organizational Psychology Arena

Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends

Doctrine, Verity and Fable in Organizational and Social Sciences

• Edited by Charles E. Lance, and Robert J Vandenberg.

Published October 2008

This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore. Some examples of these "methodological urban legends", as we refer to them in this book, are…
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An Integrative Approach to Leader Development

Connecting Adult Development, Identity, and Expertise

• By David V. Day, Michelle M. Harrison and Stanley M. Halpin.

Published August 2008

This book is a beginning, a first step, in taking leader development in organizations beyond conventional wisdom toward a scientifically sound research-based set of principles and practices. The authors looked beyond their own academic disciplines to bring to bear accumulated wisdom from…
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Inclusive Leadership

The Essential Leader-Follower Relationship

• By Edwin Hollander.

Published July 2008

This landmark book, by Edwin P. Hollander, a noted organizational social psychologist and long-time contributor to leadership research and practice, highlights the leader-follower relationship as central to effective leadership. Inclusive Leadership is a process of active followership…
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Work Motivation in Organizational Behavior, Second Edition

• By Craig C. Pinder.

Published July 2008

This second edition of the best-selling textbook on Work Motivation in Organizational Behavior provides an update of the critical analysis of the scientific literature on this topic, and provides a highly integrated treatment of leading theories, including their historical roots and progression…
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Work Motivation

Past, Present and Future

• Edited by Ruth Kanfer, Gilad Chen and Robert D. Pritchard.

Published June 2008

This edited volume in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series presents the current thinking and research on the important area of motivation.Work Motivation is a central issue in Industrial organizational psychology, human resource management and organizational behavior. In this volume the editors…
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Managing Motivation

A Manager's Guide to Diagnosing and Improving Motivation

• By Robert Pritchard, and Elissa Ashwood.

Published May 2008

This slim motivation guidebook was written to bridge the gap between the academic research on motivation and to present it in a form that is useful to the practicing manager. In essence, the book presents a theory of motivation and how to use it without ever mentioning the word "theory". The goal…
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The Entrepreneurial Personality

A Social Construction

• By Elizabeth Chell.

Published May 2008

Is there such a thing as an 'entrepreneurial personality'? What makes someone an entrepreneur is a question that has intrigued the lay person and the scholar for many years, but can such a personality be identified or is it simply a socially constructed phenomenon? Elizabeth Chell pursues an…
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Whistle-Blowing in Organizations

• By Marcia P. Miceli, Janet Pollex Near and Terry M. Dworkin.

Published April 2008

This is a research-based book on whistle-blowing in organizations. The three noted authors describe studies on this important topic and the implications of the research and theory for organizational behavior, managerial practice, and public policy. In the past few years there have been…
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Personality and Intelligence at Work

Exploring and Explaining Individual Differences at Work

• By Adrian Furnham.

Published March 2008

Personality and Intelligence at Work examines the increasingly controversial role of individual differences in predicting and determining behaviour at work. It combines approaches from organizational psychology and personality theory to critically examine the physical, psychological and…
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Psychological and Organizational Climate Research: Contrasting Perspectives and Research Traditions

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

• Edited by Alessia D'Amato, and Michael J. Burke.

Published February 2008

This special issue brings together psychological and organizational climate research from different cultural perspectives and research traditions. The articles exemplify the best of these traditions with climate research at both the individual and organizational levels of analysis as well as…
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