Organisational Psychology Books
Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in Your Organisation
Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in Your Organisation is for managers, leaders and coaches interested in extending the practice of coaching to achieve broader organisational outcomes. The... (more)
New Frontiers in Work and Family Research
The purpose of this volume is to showcase alternative theoretical and methodological approaches to work and family research, and present methodological alternatives to the widely known shortcomings... (more)
Thinking Through Crisis: Improving Teamwork and Leadership in High-Risk Fields
Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this strikingly original analysis of the complex dynamics of high-risk fields demonstrates that teamwork is more important than technical prowess in... (more)
Key Concepts in Leadership
Introducing, explaining and contextualizing current leadership conceptsthis book cross-references each of the entries to provide a clear definition, an explanation of historical usage and lay out... (more)
Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text
Coaching is often discussed as if it is a new 'profession' without adequate attention to how it has evolved, what underpins its practice or its training methods. Situating coaching in a wider social... (more)
Humanness in Organisations: A Psychodynamic Contribution
Humanness in Organizations is a unique contribution from the social sciences to the betterment of organizational life. The authors argue that working life can only become more humane when we change... (more)
Mindful and Effective Employees: A Training Program for Maximizing Well-Being and Effectiveness Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Workplace stress is a major employment issue which, left unchecked, eats into profits, reduces efficiency and leads to good staff handing in their notice. The benefits of reducing it are innumerable... (more)
An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Workplace Bullying
This book gives in-depth insights into the core issues of workplace bullying from the perspectives of the individuals involved, their interpersonal relationships, the group dynamics and... (more)
Coaching on the Axis: Working with Complexity in Business and Executive Coaching
This book offers an approach to business and executive coaching that properly aligns the practice in the culture of business through the use of a relational "coaching axis" that helps to manage the... (more)
Socioanalytic Methods: Discovering the Hidden in Organisations and Social Systems
Socioanalysis is the study of groups, organisations, and society using a systems psychoanalytic framework: looking beneath the surface (and the obvious) to see the underlying dynamics and how these... (more)
Psychoanalytic Essays on Power and Vulnerability
'This fascinating book, the last in a trilogy on psychoanalytic reflections, edited by Halina Brunning, explores power and vulnerability in three related areas: Leadership and Organizations, the... (more)
Leadership: All You Need To Know
When times are hard, leadership makes the greatest difference. So says the evidence. This book shows how to make the kind of difference that all organizations, both public and private sector, want... (more)
Well-Being and Work: Towards a Balanced Agenda
Work and well-being is one of the fastest growing areas of concern to business, public sector and government. This book looks at the causes of stress in the modern work-place, and offers practical... (more)
Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations
Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to... (more)
The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness
The Revolt of the Primitive explores the psychological dynamics of political correctness and gender warfare. Author Howard Schwartz argues that perceptions of men as abusers, sexual predators, and... (more)
Tackling Depression at Work: A Practical Guide for Employees and Managers
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... (more)
Managing Trauma in the Workplace: Supporting Workers and Organisations
Managing Trauma in the Workplace looks at the impact of trauma not only from the perspective of the employees but also from that of their organisations. In addition to describing the negative... (more)
Developing Creativity in Organizations
Explores ways of encouraging creativity, by looking at the individual, groups and teams, and then how this can be carried through to organizational level. Case studies and examples are used to show... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Organisational Settings
This book introduces some of the specific contexts in which today's counsellors and psychotherapists find themselves working. It draws upon the experience of counsellors active in their field and... (more)
Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success
Sharing the results of her four-year research journey in simple, jargon-free language, Jessica Pryce-Jones exposes the secrets of being happy at work. It focuses on what happiness really means in a... (more)
Workplaces of the Future
Examines change in workplace structures and relations, and considers what the contemporary workplace looks like. This book contains a range of issues and examples from factory and office, manual and... (more)
Body Language in Business: Decoding the Signals
This book is about body language: signals we send and receive, messages we transmit and decipher, and "statements" we make about ourselves nonverbally. Body language is the most primitive system of... (more)
Strategic Supervision: A Brief Guide for Managing Social Service Organizations
Strategic Supervision is a brief, practical guide to the most important aspects of supervisory leadership and personnel management within the social work environment. This is an applications-oriented... (more)
The Reflective Citizen: Organizational and Social Dynamics
This is the first in a "Reflective Citizen" series, the intention being to develop volumes from the various OPUS (An Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) activities which include... (more)