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Books in Organizational behavioral psychology

This portfolio explores workplace behavior, motivation, leadership, and organizational dynamics. Supporting HR professionals, managers, and researchers, it features evidence-based interventions, organizational change theories, and case studies that improve employee well-being, productivity, and organizational culture.

  • Building Better Relationships for Clinical Success and Personal Growth

    Behavioral Artistry
    • 1st Edition
    • Justin B Leaf + 2 more
    • English
    Building Better Relationships for Clinical Success and Personal Growth: Behavioral Artistry examines the transformative realm of Behavioral Artistry (BA), unveiling seven core skills that enhance individual efficacy. Rooted in the academic literature of behavioral analysis, these traits encompass a sense of humor, affinity for people, celebration of small victories, persistence, optimism, objectivity, and tenacity. This reader-friendly approach, devoid of technical jargon, ensures accessibility for a diverse audience. Offering a unique training curriculum, real-life scenarios, and application strategies, this book is not merely informative but also a practical guide to fostering job satisfaction and success in high-turnover fields.As a valuable resource for all clinical professionals, this book equips readers with the tools necessary for personal and professional fulfillment.

  • Get to Know Your Employee

    Secrets of A Successful Company
    • 1st Edition
    • Janek Musek
    • English
    Get to Know Your Employee: Secrets of a Successful Company addresses the critical and often overlooked psychological factors that influence organizational performance and employee relations. Drawing on cutting-edge research in organizational psychology, neuroscience, and developmental science, this reference provides a comprehensive analysis of how early life experiences, repressed fears, and defensive behaviors can undermine workplace efficiency, creativity, and well-being. The book fills a crucial gap by revealing the hidden causes of organizational challenges that traditional management strategies often overlook. The reference is structured to guide readers through a logical progression, beginning with foundational concepts and the unknowns that must be recognized.Subsequen... chapters examine the role of early experiences and brain development, the impact of parenting styles, and the mechanisms by which early stress translates into defensive behaviors. The text further explores motivational loops, approach-avoidance behaviors, and the neuroscientific underpinnings of workplace dynamics. Practical solutions are presented for managers and leaders, including methods for reassuring employees, building job satisfaction, and strengthening organizational culture. Appendices, references, and supportive figures enhance the utility of the content.

  • Negotiating in the Leadership Zone

    • 1st Edition
    • Ken Sylvester
    • English
    Negotiating in the Leadership Zone expertly addresses the question: How do leaders become better negotiators? Much has been written about leadership, and negotiating skills have long been the subject of academics and business consultants. This book successfully brings negotiation and leadership together for the first time, building separate insights about them into practical, applied lessons and tools that can be used immediately. Leaders will find unique cases, examples, and insights for high-stakes and routine negotiations alike. Mixng a readable, non-jargon approach with real-world stories and wide applicability, the author's use of 50+ years of experience as a business owner, negotiation consultant, and teacher to convey the fundamental logic and strategies underlying negotiations. The results are more than convincing.

  • China's Spatial (Dis)integration

    Political Economy of the Interethnic Unrest in Xinjiang
    • 1st Edition
    • Rongxing Guo
    • English
    This book is intended to provide the narratives and analytics of China’s spatial (dis)integration. Indeed, the Chinese nation is far too large and spatially complicated and diversified to be misinterpreted. The only feasible approach to analyzing it is, therefore, to divide it into smaller geographical elements through which one can have a better insight into the spatial mechanisms and regional characteristics.

  • Individual Differences and Personality

    • 2nd Edition
    • Michael C. Ashton
    • English
    How do we come to be who we are? Why do we differ in our personalities? How do these differences matter in life? Individual Differences and Personality aims to describe how and why personality varies among people. Unlike books that focus on individual theorists, this book focuses on current research and theory on the nature of personality and related individual differences. The book begins by discussing how personality is measured, the concept of a personality trait, and the basic dimensions of personality. This leads to a discussion of the origins of personality, with descriptions of its developmental course, its biological causes, its genetic and environmental influences, and its evolutionary function. The concept of a personality disorder is then described, followed by a discussion of the influence of personality on life outcomes in relationships, work, and health. Finally, the book examines the important differences between individuals in the realms of mental abilities, of beliefs and attitudes, and of behavior.

  • Fundamentals of International Organizational Behaviour

    • 1st Edition
    • Simon Dolan + 1 more
    • English
    Fundamentals of International Organizational Behaviour is a product of not only the authors’ lives, work, teaching and consulting experiences across the world but particularly in teaching courses on organizational behavior to students that come from different parts of the globe. This book reviews influential theories such as Experiential Learning Theory that benefit faculty and students focus on engaging in the process of learning (both at the individual and team levels) as part of organizational behavior course. Both historical and fundamental aspects of organizational behavior are assessed so as to cater to the diversity of knowledge and related experience in the fields of psychology, sociology or business.

  • Bullying and Sexual Harassment

    A Practical Handbook
    • 1st Edition
    • Tina Stephens + 1 more
    • English
    Bullying and Sexual Harassment provides practical guidance on how to recognise and reduce bullying and harassment. It explains and advises on what steps a manager should take when they first become aware of such problems and how to be pro-active rather than reactive. It is written in an easy to follow, friendly style especially designed for use by those having to grapple with such a difficult and sensitive area. It addresses such issues as: why does it seem so hard to deal with it? When does friendliness or banter become sexual harassment? When does firm management become bullying? How do you recognise bullying in the workplace? How should you deal with complaints of bullying or harassment and what are the pitfalls? The book is considered in the context of the situation in the UK and British case law.

  • Coalition Formation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24
    • H.A.M. Wilke
    • English
    A comprehensive view of coalition formation is presented here. Each of the chapters gives a summary of theories and research findings in a specific field of interest, at various levels of human and primate organisation.