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Evidence-Based Productivity Improvement

A Practical Guide to the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System (ProMES)

• By Robert D. Pritchard, Sallie J. Weaver and Elissa Ashwood.

Published November 2011

This new book explains the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement system (ProMES) and how it meets the criteria for an optimal measurement and feedback system. It summarizes all the research that has been done on productivity, mentioning other measurement systems, and gives detailed information…
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Behavioral Business Ethics

Shaping an Emerging Field

• Edited by David De Cremer, and Ann E. Tenbrunsel.

Published October 2011

This book takes a look at how and why individuals display unethical behavior. It emphasizes the actual behavior of individuals rather than the specific business practices. It draws from work on psychology which is the scientific study of human behavior and thought processes. As Max…
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Work Engagement

A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research

• Edited by Arnold B. Bakker, and Michael P. Leiter.

Published March 2010

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…
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Object Relations, Work and the Self

• By David P. Levine.

Published October 2009

In this book, David P. Levine applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and Melanie Klein, he explores three factors central to our effort to understand work:…
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The Joy of Work?

Jobs, Happiness, and You

• By Peter Warr, and Guy Clapperton.

Published September 2009

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. It draws on up-to-date research from around the world to present the…
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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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Handbook of Organizational Creativity

• Edited by Jing Zhou, and Christina E. Shalley.

Published October 2007

This volume is a comprehensive and cutting-edge reference book reflecting current knowledge in the rapidly growing area of organizational creativity. The contributors to this volume are all leading researchers in the field of organizational creativity. This volume: provides a historical…
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The Psychology of Entrepreneurship

• Edited by J. Robert Baum, Michael Frese and Robert A. Baron.

Published July 2006

Entrepreneurship is essential for international social and economic well-being, as new ventures are the dominant source of job creation, market innovation, and economic growth in many societies. In this book, a noted group of researchers use findings, methods, and theories of modern psychology as…
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