Organisational Psychology Books
International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies
Presents the description of the field of organization studies, spanning individual, organizational, societal and cultural perspective. This work is a reference tool for students, lecturers, academics... (more)
Leadership Therapy: Inside the Mind of Microsoft: Solutions to the Top Problems Managers Face
Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face constant pressure to innovate and excel and are passionately devoted to their jobs. In this insightful book, Anna Rowley... (more)
Employee Well-Being Support: A Workplace Resource
This work explores the key issues in this increasingly critical area. Employees have a set of needs as part of the psychological contract of employment. However, organizations operate for a reason... (more)
Personality and Intelligence at Work: Exploring and Explaining Individual Differences at Work
"Personality and Intelligence at Work" examines the increasingly controversial role of individual differences in predicting and determing behaviour at work. It combines approaches from organizational... (more)
Leadership is a Matter of Life and Death: The Psychodynamics of Eros and Thanatos Working in Organisations
By drawing upon works of Freud, Klein, Spielrein, Alford and Marcuse, this book examines death instinct triggers that induce thoughts of mortality salience and subsequent death fear manifestations.... (more)
Changing Organizational Culture: The Change Agent's Guidebook
"Changing Organizational Culture" is a practical handbook that discusses the various methods of uncovering organizational beliefs and resolving conflict. It includes useful exercises and has an... (more)
From Transformation to TransformaCtion: Methods and Practices
This book describes a journey of discovery from transformation to transformaCtion that extends and enhances the life of the organization. The journey occurs on the seas of anxiety and passion, which... (more)
Social Dreaming in the 21st Century: The World We Are Losing
We are running out of ideas in Western society. Faced with global warming, Third World devastation, nuclear proliferation and the threat posed by religious conflict, we need new ways of thinking.... (more)
When Work Takes Control: The Psychology and Effects of Work Addiction
The purpose of this book is to explain, first, what happens when we become too involved in our work, and, second, how we avoid being controlled by our work and how we prevent family members, friends,... (more)
More Magic of Metaphor: Stories for Leaders, Influencers and Motivators
Stories and metaphors are incredibly powerful vehicles through which real change and compassion can be generated in the world, and can be used to influence, motivate, and lead others with elegance... (more)
Self-coaching Leadership: Simple Steps from Manager to Leader
Generally, leadership is about influencing people to make big things happen. Management is a process of organizing people to get things done. They are different skills, but equally critical to... (more)
Changing Organizational Culture: The Change Agent's Guidebook
See catalogue number 26346 for the paperback edition. "Changing Organizational Culture" is a practical handbook that discusses the various methods of uncovering organizational beliefs and resolving... (more)
The Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins
There is evidence of a movement from 'a culture of narcissism' toward elements of a perverse culture. This book brings forth and examines the evidence as it reveals itself through one of the major... (more)
Storytelling Organizations
The idea of organizations using 'storytelling' to make sense of themselves and their environment has generated a lot of excitement. Written by the leading scholar in this field, "Storytelling... (more)
The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations
Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life has typically been hostile to the inner world of feeling. Rationality is deemed superior to feeling, which can contaminate... (more)
Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play
Now in a special 25th anniversary edition and filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis... (more)
Writers on Organizations: Sixth Edition
This eagerly awaited sixth edition of "Writers on Organizations" offers an illuminating overview of the field of organizations studies trough the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently... (more)
Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology
"Discursive Leadership" presents a new, groundbreaking way for scholars and graduate students to examine and explore leadership. Differing from a psychological approach to leadership which tries to... (more)
Managing Understanding in Organizations
Bringing a fresh perspective to the evaluation of management problems, "Managing Understanding in Organizations" draws upon interpretative research and builds upon existing interpretative studies to... (more)
From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
"From the Ground Up" takes a close look at how social-change organizations address challenges related to leadership, staff development, decision-making, resource needs, and collaborations. Chetkovich... (more)
Infinite Possibilities of Social Dreaming
Social Dreaming was discovered in the early 1980s at the Tavistock Institute in London. Its focus is on the dream and not the dreamer. It is done with a set of people who come together to share their... (more)
Positive Organizational Behavior
Positive Organizational Behavior is emerging as a truly contemporary movement within the classic discipline of organizational behavior. The best work of leading scholars is gathered together in one... (more)
The Coaching Organization: A Strategy for Developing Leaders
"The Coaching Organization" draws on the authors' extensive experience and additional research completed since the publication of their first book, "The Coaching Manager", to help promote coaching... (more)
Managing Innovation and Change: Third Edition
Covers the diversity of pressures to which modern enterprises are subjected, reviews some persistent acronyms to which the art of management is prone; examines the nature of innovation; looks at the... (more)
Conflict Dialogue: Working with Layers of Meaning for Productive Relationships
"Conflict Dialogue" provides a clear, systematic, theoretically grounded discussion that enables the readers to analyze and manage conflicts based on their tangible and symbolic meanings. Using... (more)
The Meaning of Work: Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs
Lisl Klein has spent forty years working on the twin themes of the practice of social science in organizations and the importance of work and work organization. Papers on the first of these were... (more)
Leaders in Transition: The Tensions at Work as New Leaders Take Charge
Leaders in Transition brings a new perspective on why some leaders succeed more than others when taking charge of an organisation. Based on in-depth case studies, when four new leaders and their... (more)