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Corporate Healing
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The Soul of the Law
: :Why do lawyers have the highest suicide rate and the highest alcoholism rate of all professionals? What's happened to truth, justice and the American way? Written by an attorney and psychotherapist who counsels lawyers, this book explains what's gone wrong, why, and what can be done about it.
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Influencing: Skills and Techniques for Business Success
: :It is widely recognized that the old command and control style of management has little relevance. Since managing and leadership are essentially about achieving results through others, the most likely and effective way of doing this is through the ability to influence people. This book is about that ability, about the required skills, attitudes, tactics, and techniques, and about influencing styles and the influencing process. It also puts forward a new model of influencing.
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The Wisdom of Coaching: Essential Papers in Consulting Psychology for a World of Change
from: American Psychological Association (APA)
: :What is executive coaching? And, how has it emerged as such a strong subdiscipline of consulting psychology in recent years? Answers to these questions and more are provided in The Wisdom of Coaching: Essential Papers in Consulting Psychology for a World of Change. Editors Richard R. Kilburg and Richard C. Diedrich have selected 39 essential articles originally published in the Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research that delve deeply into what it means to coach senior executives in the world's major corporations. Along with the practical guidance offered by the numerous case ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology (Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management)
from: Oxford University Press, USA
: :he field of Personnel Psychology is broadly concerned with the study of individual differences and their consequences for the organization. As human resource costs continue, for most organizations, to be the single largest operating cost (50-80% of annual expenditure), achieving optimal performance from individual employees is of paramount importance to the sustained development and financial performance of any organization. The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology brings together contributions from leading international scholars within the field to present state-of-the-art reviews on topical and emergent issues, constructs, and research in personnel psychology. The book ...
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Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes
: :In Wheel Estate, Allan Wallis offers a lively and informative history of the mobile home in the United States over six decades. His colorful account, extensively illustrated with period photographs and vivid portraits of the people who live in mobile homes and the industry pioneers who designed and built them, will inform and amuse anyone curious about this American phenomenon.Beginning with the travel trailers of the late 1920s and 1930s -- with models that were built like yachts or unfolded like Polaroid cameras -- Wallis moves through the World War II era, ...
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King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership
: :World politics is made of world leaders. These men (very few are women) who love to present themselves as having their people's interests at heart, are driven by the same desire for power recognized by every primatologist as a universal alpha male characteristic. Based on nearly 2000 profiles of political leaders, this book is a scholarly attempt to measure political leadership with the cool objectivity of science.
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Psychology of Women: A Handbook of Issues and Theories
from: Greenwood Press
: :With the rise of feminist thought and women's studies, there has been a growing need for a comprehensive reference on the psychology of women. This handbook meets that need by providing a systematic and informative overview of the psychological world of women. The volume is organized into several sections, each of which discusses a broad aspect of the mental and emotional life of women. Within each section, chapters written by expert contributors provide thorough and thoughtful analyses of the topics and issues of greatest significance. This exceptional work balances previous references in ...
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The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate
from: Wiley
: :Organizational culture and climate continues to engage academic interest and debate. Culture has increasingly been linked to a diverse range of individuals and organizational behaviours. However, despite the international interest and importance of the concept, the dominant literature in this field has tended to reflect an Anglo-US model and perspective. There are no significant texts which have attempted to combine and integrate the more traditional with the more emergent perspective. This book will be the first volume to offer authoritative, critical and comprehensive discussion and information on the topic. It will review ...
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Motivation in Public Management: The Call of Public Service
from: Oxford University Press, USA
: :Motivation in Public Management: The Call of Public Service joins a long-standing debate about what drives the behavior of government employees and others who are engaged in the public's business. For many centuries, public service was considered a noble calling and, more recently, a profession. During the latter part of the 20th century, however, many scholars called into question both the reality and desirability of a public service ethic. This book draws upon a substantial and growing body of evidence from across disciplines in the social, behavioral, and natural sciences. It asks ...
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