Organisational Psychology Books
Psychodynamics for Consultants and Managers
This book explores the ways in which psychoanalytic thinking can be more extensively and effectively used to the benefit of organizations and groups. It provides future and practicing consultants and... (more)
Fear and Self-Loathing in the City: A Guide to Keeping Sane in the Square Mile
Fear and Self-Loathing in the City is a practical guide to both managing the pressures of the workplace and coping with the struggles we may have in our personal lives. It incorporates simple... (more)
Mind-ful Consulting
The publication of this book coincides with a increasing recognition that the challenges facing society and organisations are not amenable to "quick fixes". The approaches to consultancy which... (more)
Executive Coaching: Building and Managing Your Professional Practice
Understand all the aspects of becoming an executive coach, from acquiring training to marketing your practice. Hands-on information on topics like acquiring the right training and making the... (more)
International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: 2008: v. 23
Now in its 23rd year, the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology has attracted contributions from leading researchers and produced many citation classics. Each volume is a... (more)
International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: 2006: v. 21
Offers overviews of developments across a diverse range of areas, including: attribution theory, performance appraisal, women at work, international management, task analysis, and qualitative... (more)
Community Organizing and Development
This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the broad and changing political and social settings that influence actions; while... (more)
The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations
Helps managers discover how employees communicate and collaborate to get work done. This work also helps them identify ways they can influence these social networks to improve performance and... (more)
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)
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)
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)