Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Industrial & Organizational Psychology

Work-life balance has drawn much attention from academic researchers, professionals, and politicians over the past two decades. However, despite the increased interest globally, there has been an under-representation of academic work on work-life balance across the African continent. So, this book serves as a collection of cases from various contexts across Africa and an exploration of the challenges and how best to manage human resources in this ‘Mother Continent’ with phenomenal potential.

The book’s contributions draw on various types of research (conceptual, theoretical...

This book focuses on methods of choice in program evaluation. Credible methods choice lies in the assumptions we make about the appropriateness and validity of selected methods and the validity of those assumptions. As evaluators make methodological decisions in various stages of the evaluation process, a number of validity questions arise. Yet unexamined assumptions are a risk to useful evaluation. The first edition of this book discussed the formulation of credible methodological arguments and methods of examining validity assumptions. However, previous publications suggest advantages...

This book depicts the diverse approaches of established women professors in perceiving and developing intellectual leadership in Hong Kong. It analyzes the combined influences of various disciplines, different higher education institutions, and gender on the careers of female scholars in the East Asian region. The complexity and interaction of academic careers for women, disciplinary contexts, higher education systems, and socio-cultural environments may present a relatively holistic landscape for readers interested in academic life and leadership. Scholars, administrators, managers, and...

While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood. This highlights the need for a discursive and up-to-date reference work analyzing this approach’s classic arguments and assumptions in the light of contemporary issues in sociology, economics and philosophy. This two-volume handbook presents the first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism. Chapters discuss historical and contemporary debates surrounding this central approach within the social sciences, as well as...

Der Fachkräftemangel und frühzeitige Fluktuationen fordern Organisationen zu Veränderungen heraus, um Mitarbeitende zu halten. Die Generation Z betritt mit neuen Anforderungen den Arbeitsmarkt, während New Work neue Möglichkeiten für die Arbeitswelt bietet. Unternehmen sollten dahingehend ein Verständnis entwickeln, um das organisationale Commitment von Beschäftigten zu stärken und die Chancen auf den Verbleib beim Arbeitgeber zu steigern. Ziel dieser Ausarbeitung ist die Erarbeitung eines Konzepts mit Handlungsempfehlungen für Unternehmen zur Steigerung des organisationalen...