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Beschreibung
In this unique text, Christine Doyle provides the student with a cutting-edge introduction to the field of work and organizational psychology. The main focus is on recent changes that have occurred in the world of work, incorporating their causes, consequences, proposed solutions to the associated problems, and above all, the challenges they pose for work and organizational psychology.
Among the topics covered are motivation at work, the concept of stress, and the causes of individual accidents and organizational disasters. Solutions to such problems might include lifelong learning and training, performance management, career development, and employee assistance programmes.
This lively, provocative, and highly readable book will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of work and organizational psychology, as well as business management students, managers and anyone with an interest in human resources management.
In this unique text, Christine Doyle provides the student with a cutting-edge introduction to the field of work and organizational psychology. The main focus is on recent changes that have occurred in the world of work, incorporating their causes, consequences, proposed solutions to the associated problems, and above all, the challenges they pose for work and organizational psychology.
Among the topics covered are motivation at work, the concept of stress, and the causes of individual accidents and organizational disasters. Solutions to such problems might include lifelong learning and training, performance management, career development, and employee assistance programmes.
This lively, provocative, and highly readable book will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of work and organizational psychology, as well as business management students, managers and anyone with an interest in human resources management.
Über den Autor

Christine E. Doyle is currently Director of the Professional Doctorate in Occupational Psychology at the University of East London

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 0: Read Me. (It's All in the Sub-title, or, I'd Like to Disagree with Aristotle's Principle of Moderation in All Things.) Chapter 1: What's It All About ... ? (Introduction to Work and Organizational Psychology.) Chapter 2: All Change ... The Past and Future of Work. (Organizational Change and Development.) Chapter 3: Why Work? (Or, Life, the Universe and Everything!) (Employee Relations and Motivation.) Chapter 4: A Study of Stress. (Design of Environments and of Work.) Chapter 5: The Ironies of Automation and Other Disasters. (Human-machine Interaction.) Chapter 6: Lifelong Learning. (Training and Development.) Chapter 7: Getting the Right People (and Keeping Them). (Selection and Assessment.) Chapter 8: Getting the Best from the Best. (Appraisal and Career Development.) Chapter 9: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Work. (Counselling and Individual Development.) Chapter 10: Where Do We Go Now? (Well, I Wouldn't Start from Here ... ) References. Author Index. Subject Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Fachbereich: Angewandte Psychologie
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780415208710
ISBN-10: 0415208718
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Doyle, Christine
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Christine Doyle
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.12.2002
Gewicht: 0,865 kg
Artikel-ID: 134112369