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This book is concerned with the study of organizations of various kinds. It examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious life of those organizations in which traumatic experience is ubiquitous and understanding the variations in individual, group, and organizations.
The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity is an in-depth exploration of one of the most mysterious and controversial topics in neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology-namely, the search for the biological basis of the self. The book is a guide to understanding how the brain creates who we are, and what happens when things go wrong. For the first time in a single volume, some of the foremost experts in the fields of philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and psychology join together to explore the neurobiology of the self. They first lay the foundation for an understanding of the topic. Then they provide fascinating and detailed accounts of how the self is transformed in patients with brain lesions, autism, and dementia, as well as in drug induced states, during meditation, and while dreaming. Their analysis of these disorders and states is used as a springboard toward a deeper understanding of how a brain creates a self. This fascinating volume will be invaluable to neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and philosophers of mind, and to their students and trainees.
The modern workplace is often thought of as cold and rational, as no place for the experience and expression of emotions. Yet it is no more emotionless than any other aspect of life. Individuals bring their affective states and emotional "buttons" to work, leaders try to engender feelings of passion and enthusiasm for the organization and its mission, and consultants seek to increase job satisfaction, commitment, and trust. This book advances the understanding of the causes and effects of emotions at work and extends existing theories to consider implications for the management of emotions. The international cast of authors examines the practical issues raised when organizations are studied as places where emotions are aroused, suppressed, used, and avoided. This book also joins the debate on how organizations and individuals ought to manage emotions in the workplace. Managing Emotions in the Workplace is designed for use in graduate level courses in Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, or Organizational Development - any course in which the role of emotions in the workplace is a central concern. Scholars and consultants will also find this book to be an essential resource on the latest theory and practice in this emerging field.
Bringing together the current international body of knowledge on key issues for educating for well-being in law, this book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing well-being and legal education in law. The chapters include innovative and tested research methodologies and strategies for educating for well-being. Asking and answering the question as to whether law is special in terms of producing psychological distress in law students, law teachers and the profession, and bringing together common and opposing perspectives, this book also seeks to highlight excellent practice in promoting a positive professional identity at law school and beyond resulting in an original contribution to knowledge, and new discourses of analysis.
This book examines the links between work wage and wellbeing, drawing on the new specialism of Humanitarian Work Psychology and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Humanitarian work psychology foregrounds people before profit, not wages before people. It resonates with the SDGs through the Decent Work Agenda, a policy program that stresses a number of humanitarian concerns: standards and rights at work, employment creation and enterprise development, social protection and social dialogue. These standards and forms of dialogue, from the living wage standard to new diplomacies for inclusive policy dialogue, appear and re-appear throughout the following chapters and sections in the book. The book synthesizes job characteristics models and psychology of working approaches with job evaluation techniques, poverty trap theory, diminishing marginal returns, work justice theory, the social psychology of equality and inequality, and a range of literatures on wellbeing that crisscross the social sciences.
Readers come to the topic of leadership development with multiple interests-intellectual, professional, and personal-and with curiosity about how to apply concepts and tools to themselves and to support others. Women's Leadership Development: Caring Environments and Paths to Transformation addresses these concerns. The book offers an interdisciplinary framework of leadership effectiveness and brings this framework to life with detailed and illuminating descriptions of four leadership transformations facilitated by care-practices used in a specific leader development program. The book will be of interest to academics who teach leadership or conduct leadership research, HR professionals who are seeking fresh ideas for how to maximize the impact of leadership training for women, and anyone with a passion for personal growth and development.
"Leadership Development" explores how leaders gain and use
self-knowledge for continuous improvement and career development
and describes how leaders help themselves and the people with whom
they work, understand themselves, and become more self-determined,
continuous learners, and make the most of resources, such as
feedback and coaching. This book explains why leaders need support
for self-insight and professional growth in today's business
environment. It explores dimensions of effective leadership in
light of business, technological, and economic trends. Focusing on
the importance of leaders developing accurate self-understanding,
the book defines self-insight, outlines the meaning of internal
strength and resilience for self-regulation, and considers how
leaders attain a meaningful and realistic sense of self-identity.
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1972 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
"Leadership Development" explores how leaders gain and use
self-knowledge for continuous improvement and career development
and describes how leaders help themselves and the people with whom
they work, understand themselves, and become more self-determined,
continuous learners, and make the most of resources, such as
feedback and coaching. This book explains why leaders need support
for self-insight and professional growth in today's business
environment. It explores dimensions of effective leadership in
light of business, technological, and economic trends. Focusing on
the importance of leaders developing accurate self-understanding,
the book defines self-insight, outlines the meaning of internal
strength and resilience for self-regulation, and considers how
leaders attain a meaningful and realistic sense of self-identity.
This book contains selected papers presented at the 1998 conference
on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM). The objectives of the
conference were to:
This edited book presents cutting-edge research looking at the role
of multiple intelligence--cognitive (IQ), emotional intelligence,
social intelligence--in effective leadership, written by the most
distinguished scholars in the two distinct fields of intelligence
and leadership. The synergy of bringing together both traditional
intelligence researchers and renowned leadership scholars to
discuss how multiple forms of intelligence impact leadership has
important implications for the study and the practice of
organizational and political leadership. This volume emanates from
the recent explosion of interest in non-IQ domains of intelligence,
particularly in Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence.
Indeed, the leading EI and SI scholars have contributed to this
book.
This book contains selected papers presented at the 1998 conference
on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM). The objectives of the
conference were to:
Evaluation of staff and procedures is now a regular part of organisational efficiency, yet few people are given any training or guidance in how to set about it. This book provides this guidance, giving a step-by-step guide to designing evaluations. Questions of costs, benefits, types of methods and ethics are all discussed. The book also equips the reader with the skills to assess evaluations provided by outsiders.
In Coaching Beyond Words: Using Art to Deepen and Enrich Our Conversations, Anna Sheather presents a practical guide for those seeking to incorporate art in their own coaching practice. Complete with case studies and art created by clients, Anna explores how coaching with art connects clients to a deeper level of personal awareness and understanding, which in turn leads to meaningful shifts in personal growth, development and fulfilment. Anna offers the coach an exciting and transformative way to work with their clients by bridging the gap between art and coaching. She covers how to introduce creative approaches, how to support creativity and how to work with the art produced, opening enriching coaching conversations with clients. Anna combines her personal experiences with research that underpins her practice, exploring the benefits of the interdisciplinary nature of art therapy and neuroscience by looking at the field of hemispherical lateralisation to help understand why coaching with art works so effectively. The book also provides a comprehensive guide of how to prepare an art-based coaching session, including contracting, an overview of types of exercises, key principles and approaches to facilitating the image making process, overcoming barriers with coachees and guidance on managing oneself in the process, including managing boundaries. Coaching Beyond Words is the first book to provide an in-depth look at the importance and practicality in interweaving coaching and art, and it forms a complete guide to context, theory and practice. Coaching Beyond Words will appeal to coaches in practice as well as any art therapist seeking to expand their practice into coaching. Additionally, it would be of interest to creative professionals looking to incorporate coaching theory.
This collection featuring chapters by leading international practitioners will offer an introduction to coaching psychology for those new to it, including students, trainees, psychologists, and coaches. Introduction to Coaching Psychology covers key topics, including the background and development of coaching psychology, the coach-coachee relationship, coaching psychology approaches and models, and themes such as assessment, contracting, and the setup in coaching psychology practice. Applications in coaching psychology are considered, including a look at particular coaching psychology specialisms and interventions, as well as discussions about working in organisations, working with young people, and life and personal coaching. Professional practice issues, such as boundaries and best practice, and coaching and diversity, are also explored. Furthermore, a review of coaching psychology research is presented. The book also offers a rich collection of case studies to illustrate the practice of coaching psychology in a real-world setting and concludes with a consideration of the future of the field. This timely and accessible book will be essential reading for anyone new to the field, as well as coaches, psychologists, and counsellors interested in the theory, research, and practice of coaching psychology.
For too long, organizational scientists have not adequately
attended to the problems of unethical behavior in organizations.
This collection of essays provides the stimulus needed to help move
the study of unethical behavior to center stage in the
organizational sciences. It does so by posing provocative questions
that not only entail a concern for understanding unethical behavior
but that also strike at the very core of how and why organizations
function as they do. The book addresses:
Evaluating and making decisions about other people are key aspects
of doing business, especially for managers and human resource
professionals. Industrial and organizational psychologists devise
systematic methods to remove human errors in judgment, such as
biases and stereotypes. However many decisions about people are not
made by experts using standard procedures. Even when they are,
human judgment is unavoidable.
"Professions, Work and Careers" addresses some of the central themes that preoccupied the eminent sociologist Anselm Strauss. This collection is directed at sociologists concerned with the development of theory and graduate and undergraduate students in the sociology of work and the sociology of medicine. His approach is both thematic and topical. Straus examines organization, profession, career, and work, in addition to related matters such as socialization, occupational identity, social mobility, and professional relationships, all in a social psychological context. Because medicine is considered by many to be the prototype profession, Strauss effectively illustrates many of the points by allusion to nurses, chemists, hospitals, wards, and terminal care. The progression of ideas in these essays are a befitting source for the study of structure, interaction and process, other themes that occupied Strauss in his other research enterprises. As Irving Louis Horowitz noted at the time of Anselm Strauss's death in 1996: "Anselm was and remained a social psychologist of a special sort. He appreciated that what takes place in the privacy of our minds translates into public consequences for the social fabric. His statements on personal problems are invariably followed in quick succession by intensely sociological essays on close awareness, face-to-face interaction, and structured interactions. The subtext distinguishes sociological from psychiatric conventions, seeing everything from daydreams to visions in interactionist frames rather than as pathology. The implications of his explorations into the medical profession are stated gently, but carry deep ramifications, for the act of people treating each other compassionately, not less than professionally, is also an act of awareness. Treating the human person as a creature of dignity, when generalized, becomes the basis for constructing human society." The late Anselm Strauss was a pioneer in bridging the gap between theory and data in sociology. This collection of his works, available in paperback for the first time, will be a valuable resource for professionals and students interested in grounded social theory. Anselm L. Strauss was professor of sociology and chairman of the graduate program in sociology, University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of numerous books including "Creating Sociological Awareness" and editor of "Where Medicine Fails," both published by Transaction.
A strong point in this book is its opening extensive review of creativity in organizations and professions. . . including helpful tabulations of articles that identify the motives, expectations, emotions, means, and opportunities that lead to creative acts. . . . it can provide valuable insights and encouragement to scholars and practitioners who are concerned with developing and tapping creativity in organizations. . . . Management professors and graduate students will find the book helpful. . . . --G. David Hughes in Journal of Product Innovation Management "This book definitely will be appropriate for class use in any setting focused on creativity in organizations. Presumably, these would be specialized upper-division, MBA, or Ph.D. electives. If you are interested in the topic of creativity in organizations, this is the book you must read. It is on the frontiers, and it provides a beacon for future scholarly progress on this topic because of its emphasis on how the organizational setting affects the creative process in the world of work." --Lyman Porter, University of California, Irvine "The book is itself a creative approach to creativity. The editors have attracted a talented and well-respected group of academic contributors. The message that we should abandon the romantic but flawed notion that creativity is principally the product of extraordinary individual acts is delivered forcefully, as is the companion notion that organizational contexts are the real seedbeds of creative behavior." --John R. Kimberly, Henry Bower Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "This is one of the better collections of information about creativity because it is data based, and it provides a useful comparison and contrast of conceptual and practical aspects. By clearly describing the benefits and problems associated with the topics, Creative Action in Organizations obviously practices what it preaches. I would recommend that it be used as a textbook for a graduate-level business course, particularly for an MBA program. In addition, I also recommend that it be used as a text reference for industrial 'training & development' programs targeted at teaching employees how to develop new businesses, improve existing processes, or become better leaders (viz., corporate leadership development programs)." --Tom Wojcik, Manager, Office of Innovation, Hoechst Celanese Corporation Between the trade deficit, mergers, and the recession, the topic of creativity in organizations has become one of increasing importance. How does a company retool or refine its product with foreign and, often, less costly competition? How does human resources find creative solutions to budgeting, product development, marketing, and training? With pithy and engaging chapters from leading researchers and figures in business, government, and academia, Creative Action in Organizations explores the factors that are critical to the development and promotion of creativity to develop a revised view that is grounded in experience. This volume begins with a literature review (written as a mystery to be solved), followed by essays from researchers (Part II) and practitioners (Part III). Using the chapters as "data," the editors conclude with a content-analysis that presents a look at the most significant themes and offers a framework for conceptualizing creativity in organizations. This profound and fascinating volume is essential for students, professionals, and researchers in management and organization studies, public administration, public policy, evaluation, and psychology, as well as libraries in the above areas.
A highly collaborative effort, the third edition of this classic
text brings together the latest developments in the evolving area
of professional counseling. Presented in this edition are current
issues regarding ethics and legal issues, multicultural and diverse
populations, individual and group counseling, assessment and
appraisal, career development, counseling theory and practice,
research, and an orientation to the profession of counseling. This
book is a rich compendium of information for students and
professionals who are seeking an overview of the profession or an
opportunity to review curricular content required for licensure,
certification, or comprehensive examinations in counseling.
Identity-based approaches to understanding thoughts, feelings, and
actions in organizations have produced, particularly in recent
years, an array of rich insights that have broadened the domain of
organizational behavior. This book brings these insights together
in one complete source and uses them collectively to stretch
further the boundaries of the discipline. Blake Ashforth
accomplishes this goal by creating new ways of viewing the many
forms of role transitions evident in organizational life. He looks
at role transitions people make during the workday (i.e., from
spouse/parent to employee) and studies the identity and status
issues faced.
The purpose of this volume is to seek out, describe, and explain
the shared commonalities of stress, fatigue, and workload. To
understand and predict human performance response, we have to reach
beyond the sterile, information-processing models to incorporate
the emotive, affective, or more generally, energetic aspects of
cognition. These facets of behavior surface most readily when the
individual acts under stress, is faced by significant cognitive
workload, or is in the grip of fatigue. However, energetic
characteristics are pervasive and exert a vital and ubiquitous
influence, even when they are not obviously in play as in extreme
circumstances. Indeed, one cannot hope to understand behavior
without their inclusion and integration into models and theories.
This text addresses such theoretical questions as one of its main
thrusts. However, in addition to the drive for scientific
understanding, there are requirements in our progressively more
utilitarian society which generate the need for a more fundamental
understanding of this particular topic. |
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