Organisational Psychology Books
Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation
Over the past decade, practicing managers and organizational theorists have been drawing attention to the centrality of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called... (more)
Theories of Organizational Stress
During the past two decades, the nature of work has changed dramatically, as more and more organizations downsize, outsource and move toward short-term contracts, part-time working and teleworking.... (more)
The Collaborative Leader: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge
In The Collaborative Leader, L. Michael Hall and Ian McDermott answer key questions about leadership. What is collaboration? How does it relate to leadership? How do you do it effectively? How do you... (more)
Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design
Anyone who has spent time in an organization knows that dysfunctional behavior abounds. Conflict is frequently avoided or pushed underground rather than dealt with openly. At the same time, the same... (more)
Ethics and Values in Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Second Edition
Ethics and Values in Industrial-Organizational Psychology was one of the first books to integrate work from moral philosophy, moral psychology, I-O psychology, and political and social economy, as... (more)
The Work-Family Interface in Global Context
Based on a sweeping, ten country study, The Work-Family Interface in Global Context comprises the most comprehensive and rigorous cross-cultural study of the work-family interface to date. Just as... (more)
Developing Organizational Simulations: A Guide for Practitioners, Students, and Researchers: Second Edition
This second edition of Developing Organizational Simulations provides a concise source of information on effective and practical methods for constructing simulation exercises for the assessment of... (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.17 No.1
CONTENTS
A Tribute to Lionel Stapley
ARTICLES
– Changing Social Defence Systems: Narratives of UK General Practice by Jennifer Napier
– Opinion Blocks: Some Dynamics of Collective... (more)
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 Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame
In The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame, authors Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel attempt to expand the heuristic, theoretical, and applied dimensions of Group Relations... (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)