Organisational Psychology Books
Pilot Mental Health Assessment and Support: A Practitioner's Guide
The presentation of mental illness at work has different implications and consequences depending on the specific nature of the job, work context, regulatory framework and risks for the employee,... (more)
Proactivity at Work: Making Things Happen in Organizations
As organizations grow increasingly complex and unpredictable, the topic of proactivity at work has become of great importance for contemporary workplaces. Proactivity drives performance and... (more)
Motivating People: Practical Strategies and Techniques for Support Workers
In all types of support services and care situations one of the biggest challenges is motivating people to change their behaviour. It particularly applies to individuals who are difficult to motivate... (more)
Woman, Power and Money
Why do women still earn less? What keeps them from achieving success, negotiating a good salary, or simply assuming authority? Alicia E. Kaufmann, professor of sociology and renowned expert in gender... (more)
Relational Organisational Gestalt: An Emergent Approach to Organisational Development
This book provides a comprehensive view of the application of Relational Gestalt theory to Organisation Development and change interventions in organisations.
Uncertainty and frequent change... (more)
The Enlightened Organization
The Enlightened Organization is concerned with the organization and its responsibility for enabling success by putting in place processes (including leadership and communication) that will enable it... (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.16 No.2
Contents:
A Triptych of Atrocity: Organising Atrocity, Managing and Administering Atrocity, and the Language of Atrocity
- Howard Stein and Seth Allcorn
Self and Non-Self:...
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Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.16 No.1
Contents:
The Shaman, the Therapist, and the Coach
- Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Storytelling: An Approach to Knowing Organisations and Their People
- Seth Allcorn...
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You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger: Executive Coaching Challenges
You don't have to be mad to work here - but it helps! Sometimes that's more than just a tedious joke. As anyone who has worked as an executive coach knows, sometimes people who hold very senior and... (more)
Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders: Second Edition
The INSEAD Global Leadership Centre (IGLC) was founded, and is directed by Professor Kets de Vries. IGLC has helped thousands of executives to increase their effectiveness in dealing with colleagues... (more)
The Future of Leadership: Leveraging Influence in an Age of Hyper-Change
The Future of Leadership considers how the rapid changes of today will affect the leaders of tomorrow. Renowned Leadership scholar Michael A. Genovese argues that one of the key challenges for future... (more)
Leading at All Levels: Using Systemic Ideas to Get the Most out of the Workplace
This is an innovative text which aims to make systemic ideas available to a wider market for the first time. A central theme is to get maximum benefit out of the workplace. These ideas will appeal... (more)
Death and the City: On Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia at Work
Organisational collapse is part of our vernacular. Enron, Woolworths, Lehman’s, Bank of America, Rover, BOAC, Northern Rock – these failures are part of our cultural experience of work. At a time... (more)
Work and Organizational Psychology: Second Edition
Psychologists have been fascinated by the world of work, and the changing relationship between people, technology and the workplace, since the onset of the industrial revolution. And in providing a... (more)
Transforming Experience in Organisations: A Framework for Organisational Research and Consultancy
This book explores a theoretical model – the Transforming Experience Framework (TEF) - used to understand the complexities and ambiguities of experience within organisational life. The TEF explores... (more)
Gender, Power and Organization: A Psychological Perspective: Second Edition
Work organisations are a major site of gender politics for professional women and men and although there are more women in senior positions than ever before, these increased opportunities have not... (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.15 No.2
Contents:
Understanding Organisational Dynamics and Leadership: A Comparison of Four Perspectives
- Seth Allcorn
Group Relations as Ritual (from seduction to translation)...
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Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.15 No.1
Contents
Betraying the Citizen: Social Defences Against Innovation
- Philip Boxer
The Wisdom of the Work Group for Assessing the Future
-Elisabeth Henderson
The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists
Concurrent with the increasing complexity of the field of management, the need to re-examine the foundations from which its theories have advanced has become ever more important and useful. The... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Organizations: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Behaviour in Groups and Organizations
One of the most pressing needs of modern society is to understand and construct organizations that are not only effective in terms of carrying out work but that also allow and encourage people to... (more)
True Tales of Organisational Life
The context in which healthcare is delivered continues to be one of extreme organisational turbulence and increasing workload, factors that exacerbate the anxiety felt by staff about keeping... (more)
Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks
The modern working world is a dangerous place, where game-playing, duplicity and sheer malevolence are rife. Do talent and hard work count for nothing? Is politics everything? In this fascinating... (more)
Coaching Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide
Coaching Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide takes an in-depth look at the applications and everyday challenges faced by real-world practitioners of coaching and mentoring psychology, and is ideal as... (more)
The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning
The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning addresses the psychological principles upon which organizational and industrial coaching and mentoring is based. The new edition of this text is... (more)
Social Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm
This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety first set out by Elliott Jaques and Isabel Menzies Lyth in papers which they published in 1955 and 1960, and which have... (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.14 No.2
Contents:
Authority Relations in Group Relations Conferences and in “Real Life” Group Relations Conferences - Danish Design I
- Ulla Charlotte Beck and Steen Visholm
Learning From Experience... (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.14 No.1
Contents:
Siblings and the Psychosocial
- Juliet Mitchell
What do Participants Learn at Group Relations Conferences?
- Tracy Wallach
Virtual Experiences in...
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Business Coaching International: Transforming Individuals and Organizations: Second Edition
'You simply must read this book if you are serious about being a top-notch business coach. It is an excellent guide to best practices based on clear theory, experience and business wisdom.'
- Carol... (more)
Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (Second Edition)
The Fifth Discipline draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nutured,... (more)
Group Dynamics and Team Interventions: Understanding and Improving Team Performance
Strong teams can be one of the greatest strengths of an organization-just as poor teams can spell disaster. Group Dynamics and Team Interventions brings research and practice together to offer... (more)