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Knowledge Area is aimed at promoting and sharing with you some of the best scholarly literature material and available tools in the management, executive education, organizational behavior and organizational psychology fields. Brought to you by Delegate Management Services.

Authors: Jonathan Houdmont & Stavroula Leka (2010)

Description: Published in association with the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP) and the Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP), Contemporary Issues in Occupational Health Psychology is a definitive new series presenting state-of-the-art work by leading academics and practitioners in the field. Topics include workplace health intervention evaluation, economic stress and employee well-being, work-family positive spillover, psychological flexibility, and health at work.

Publisher: Wiley
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470682655.html

Title: APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Authors: Sheldon Zedeck (Editor) (2010)

Description: The 3-volume APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology offers an in-depth examination of the types of behavioral and structural issues that I/O psychologists study every day, from both a theoretical and applied perspective. It explores a natural progression, from how problems are diagnosed to how research is conducted to generate answers to those problems to how interventions are implemented and, finally, to how they are evaluated.  It examines what is currently known—including basic historical reviews—and identifies the most pertinent sources of information in both the core and emerging literatures. It pinpoints practical issues, probes unresolved and controversial topics, and looks at future theoretical, research, and practice trends.

Publisher: APA
http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4311502.aspx

Title: Developing Self in Work and Career: Concepts, Cases, and Contexts

Authors: Paul J Hartung & Linda Subich (Eds) (2010)

Description: Human beings possess the unique psychological ability to self-reflect. Few human experiences and behaviors define the self and allow us to characterize ourselves within the social world more than work and career. The pressing economic and social conditions of the information and globalization age require workers to be more self-directed by managing their own work lives, rather than solely relying on organizations to support them. Given these shifting occupational structures, it is time to reassess the long-standing emphasis on fitting workers to jobs and move toward empowering them to adapt to change. In this volume, leading scholars and practitioners examine the construct of self through vocational psychology and career development topics centered on theory, assessment, and intervention.

Publisher: APA
http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4317238.aspx

Title: Happiness at work: Maximising your psychological capital for success

Authors: Jessica Pryce-Jones (2010)

Description: Sharing the results of her four-year research journey in simple, jargon-free language, Pryce-Jones exposes unexpected secrets about being happy at work. Moreover, she provides readers with the information, knowledge, and skills to make the most of the nearly 100,000 hours most of us will spend in our jobs over a life time.

Publisher: Routledge Press

Title: Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations

Authors: Laura Morgan Roberts & Jane Dutton (2009)

Description: In the new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is consequential and challenging for individuals, for groups and for organizations. This volume aims to forge on new ground in identity research and organizations through a compilation of new frame-breaking chapters on positive identity written by leading scholars. This volume invites readers to consider “When and how does applying a positive lens to the construct of identity generate new insights for organizational researchers?

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Title: Work engagement: A handbook of essential theory and research

Authors: Arnold B Bakker & Michael P Leiter (2010)

Description: 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. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Title: The Science of Management

Authors: Simon Moss and Ronald Francis (2007)

Description: To enhance the performance of their employees, managers need to reach an extraordinary number of decisions every day based on information and training, as well as on their experience and instinct. But are the assumptions and beliefs behind these decisions correct, or do many follow instead the latest management fad, personal opinion, psuedo-research or just a dogged preference for the status quo. Highlighting and redressing these fallacies, the authors offer the reader the opportunity to challenge many sources of bias that contaminate our beliefs and opinions and provoke unsuitable decisions at work.

Publisher: Australian Academic Press

Title: Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace

Authors: Janice Langan-Fox, Cary L. Cooper and Richard J. Klimoski (2007)

Description: This book exposes and explores the phenomena of the dysfunctional workplace, uncovering the subversiveness, counter-productive behavior and unspoken ‘issues’ that managers struggle with on a daily basis. This book not only explores organizational dysfunction as it concerns individuals, it also examines broader issues of dysfunction and its effects with regards to teams, managers and organizational systems.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Title: Learning, Training, and Development in Organizations

Authors: Steve W. J. Kozlowski & Eduardo Salas (2009)

Description: This book looks at research on enhancing knowledge acquisition and its application in organizations. Now that work is increasingly complex, greater emphasis will be on expertise and cognitive skills. In the broad context t of the organization systems, this nook promotes learning and development as a continuous lifelong endeavor.

Publisher: Psychology Press

Title: Team effectiveness in organizations

Authors: Eduardo Salas, Gerald f Goodwin, & C. Shawn Burke (2009)

Description: Over the past 40 years there has been a growing trend toward the utilization of team for accomplishing work in organizations. Project teams, self-managed work teams and top management teams, among others have become a regular element in the corporation or military. This volume is intended to provide an overview of the current state of the art research on team effectiveness.

Publisher: Psychology Press

Title: The New Psychology of Leadership

Authors: S Alexander Haslam, Stephen D Reicher & Michael J Platow (2010)

Description: This landmark text provides an overview of the new understanding of leadership that has emerged in the last two decades in social and organizational psychology, as part of the development of self-categorization and social identity theories, This book advances the argument that leadership is a group process grounded in the creation, management and control of group identity – a shared sense of ‘us’.

Publisher: Psychology Press

Title: Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management

Authors: Edward M Mone & Manuel London (2010)

Description: The authors expand the notion of performance management to encompass engagement by including foundations of engagement such as trust, creating conditions of empowerment, and maintaining ongoing straightforward communications about performance. The “best practices” advice in this book are based on solid research as well as in the author’s experience.

Publisher: Psychology Press

Title: Work Engagement

Authors: Arnold Bakker and Michale Leiter (2010)

Description: This book is based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world bringing together the best knowledge available on work engagement. The book will be of great use to academic researchers and upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.

Publisher: Psychology Press

Title: The Joy of Work?

Authors: Peter Warr & Guy Clapperton (2009)

Description: This book has been written in a relaxed and readable style by an exceptional combination of authors: a highly acclaimed professor of psychology and a widely published business journalist. Bringing together research from business and psychology – including positive psychology – this practical book will make a big difference to your happiness at work – and therefore to your whole life.

Publisher: Psychology Press

Title: The Changing realities of Work and Family (2008)

Authors: Amy Marcus-Newhall, Diane F Halpern and Sherylle J Tan (Editors)

Description: This book is arranged in 4 parts, each addressing important and current questions on the topic of work-family interactions. Part 1 addresses how families and employers accommodate and adapt to the dual demands of employment and children. Part 2 discusses cultural factors that have been (mostly) missing from the work-family literature. Part 3 links work, stress and health and speaks to the ways working and caring for families affect health. Part 4 examines work and family issues in the fields of politics, business, and the legal system.

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Title: The Management of Meaning in Organizations (2009)

Author: Slawomir Magala’s (Rotterdam School of Management)

Description: It has taken millennia but of course finally someone not only found something meaningful in organizations but has set out to discuss the management of it! We pride ourselves on being high priests of the sacred order of research assessment, yet suffer from what Hugh Willmott has called rampant rankophilia. We are working hard to get rid of the bureaucratic pyramid and replace it with a flexible, ambidextrous, flat and networked organization – yet, our sensemaking processes are patterned after religions and ideologies. The most helpful GPS system to guide us is Magala’s new book “The Management of Meaning in Organizations”.

Publisher: Palgrave Publishers

Title: The Long Work Hours Culture: Causes, consequences and choices (2008)

Authors: Ronald Burke and Cary L Cooper (Editors)

Description: This timely book examines the effects of work hours on individual, family and organizational health. It considers why some people work long hours and the potential costs and benefits of this investment. Coming to grips with work hours requires difficult choices by individuals, families, organizations are society at large. A valuable collection to managers and professional concerned about people.

Publisher: Emerald Publishers

Title: Positive Organizational Behavior (2007)

Authors: Debra Nelson and Cary L Cooper (Editors)

Description: The best work of leading scholars is gathered together. The book constitutes the study of positive human strengths and competencies, how it can be facilitated, assessed and managed to improve performance in the workplace. Its roots are firmly within positive psychology but transplanted to the world of work and organizations.

Publisher: SAGE

Title: Consulting Psychology: Selected articles by Harry Levinson (2009)

Authors: Arthur M Freedman & Kenneth H. Bradt

Description: For over 50 years, Levinson, a pioneer in the field of organizational consulting psychology has applied his extensive clinical expertise to the understanding of organizational assessment and intervention. In this volume, editors Arthur M. Freedman and Kenneth H. Bradt present 18 of Levinson’s landmark contributions that explore how and why consultants diagnose organizational and managerial pathology.

Publisher: American Psychological association

Title: Empirical Entrepreneurship in Europe (2007)

Authors: Micahel Dowling & Jurgen Schmude

Description: This book embodies the ever-increasing scope and depth of empirical entrepreneurship in Europe. Contributors from different disciplinary backgrounds within the business field-including finance, management, and entrepreneurship-employ various methodologies to study the phenomenon of entrepreneurship.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Title: Entrepreneurship Education (2007)

Authors: Patricia G. Greene & Mark P. Rice

Description: This book is organized around content and pedagogy and includes the underlying assumptions built into the field.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Title: Handbook of Organizational Politics (2008)

Authors: Eran Vigoda-Gadot & Amos Drory (Eds)

Description: This exciting Handbook offers a broad perspective on the intriguing phenomena of power, influence and politics in the modern workplace, their meaning for individuals, groups and other organizational stakeholders, and their effect on organizational outcomes and performances.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Title: Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace

Author: Silvia Gherardi

Description: Provides interesting insights about the processes people undergo from learning to knowing and doing in practice. Explains the aspects related to becoming a practitioner at work in one’s expertise.

Publisher: Blackwell’s Publishing Ltd.

Title: The Blackwell Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior (2nd Edition) (2009)

Author: Edwin A. Locke (Editor)

Description: A series of chapters on a variety of relevant OB topics discussed by world-class scholars. Topics include Selection, Training and Performance Appraisal, Turnover and Satisfaction, Motivation, Team Dynamics, Leadership, Organizational Processes, Work and Technology.

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Title: Understanding psychological contracts at work: A critical evaluation of theory and research (2005)

Authors: Neil Conway and Rob B. Briner

Description: Looks at the subject domain of the psychological contract over the last three decades and how the area can be further developed from a theoretical and research perspective. Provides a very critical approach to the discussion.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Title: Handbook of Positive Psychology

Authors: C. R. Snyder & Shane J. Lopez (2005)

Description: One of the very few handbooks that treats the emerging field of positive psychology from a multiple perspective approach. Provides insights about the theoretical development of the field and illustrates the meaningful differences between positive psychology and concepts pertaining to the more traditional field of psychology.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Title: The Enthusiastic Employee

Authors: David Sirota, Louis Mischkind & Michael Irwin Meltzer (2005)

Description: The Enthusiastic Employee draws on 30 years of research and experience to show you exactly what managers do wrong – and what they should do instead.

Publisher: Wharton School Publishing