Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Industrial & Organizational Psychology

The Handbook of Mediation gathers leading experts across fields related to peace, justice, human rights, and conflict resolution to explore ways that mediation can be applied to a range of spectrums, including new age settings, relationships, organizations, institutions, communities, environmental conflicts, intercultural and international conflicts. The text is informed by cogent theory, state-of-the-art research, and best practices to provide the reader with a well-rounded understanding of mediation practice in contemporary times.

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Too often, necessary and technically appropriate change initiatives fall short of expected gains because leaders fail to involve employees and leverage their perspectives. This deprives leaders of valuable input, and causes the very people who are expected to modify the way they work to feel discounted and disconnected. Creating Contagious Commitment: Applying the Tipping Point to Organizational Change presents a proven approach to turn this all too common situation around. It goes to the heart of...

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money--the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home--is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by...

Understanding the origins of new businesses--the firm creation process--has been dramatically affected by the development of longitudinal studies of business start-ups. A number of projects have been implemented to track the development of new firms, starting with the emergence of a business idea and organization of a start-up team through the birth of an operational business. The U.S. projects, the first and second Panel Studies of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED I, II), have counterparts in a number of other countries, Australia, Canada, China, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden....

Human and organizational factors have a substantial impact on the performance of planning and scheduling processes. In this book, the state-of-the-art in this area is discussed by experts from a wide variety of engineering and social science disciplines.

How we think and speak is a reflection of our shared cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Theory of Mind and Language in Different Developmental Contexts blazes new trails in the study of the relationship between the theory of mind that is, the ability to attribute mental states as the basis of behavior and social interaction and language.

This volume examines the linguistic variables within developmental contexts, including:

- Different levels of analysis.

- Intercultural differences (e.g., Western, non-Western).

- Intracultural differences (e.g.,...

The proposed book will represent the most up-to-date information on one of the most contemporary and controversial topics in psychology: individual differences and human exceptionality the measurement and assessment of emotional intelligence (EI). Since the original work of Mayer and Salovey some 15 years ago and the popular book published by Daniel Goleman in 1995 theories, research, and measures of EI have proliferated. Furthermore, the relevance and applications of EI to education, business and the workplace, psychology in general, and in such specific areas as health and wellness, have...