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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Occupational & industrial psychology

Non-Western Identity - Research and Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Byron G. Adams, Fons J.R. van de Vijver Non-Western Identity - Research and Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Byron G. Adams, Fons J.R. van de Vijver
R3,732 Discovery Miles 37 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Identity is a construct strongly rooted and still predominantly studied in Western (or WEIRD; Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) contexts (e.g., North American and Western European). Only recently has there been more of a conscious effort to study identity in non-Western (or non-WEIRD) contexts. This edited volume investigates identity from primarily a non-Western perspective by studying non-Western contexts and non-Western, minority, or immigrant groups living in Western contexts. The contributions (a) examine different aspects of identity (e.g., personal identity, social identity, online identity) as either independent or interrelated constructs; (b) consider the associations of these constructs with aspects of intergroup relations, acculturative processes, and/or psychological well-being; (c) document the advancement in research on identity in underrepresented groups, contexts, and regions such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South America; and (d) evaluate different approaches to the study of identity and the implications thereof. This book is intended for cultural or cross-cultural academics, practitioners, educators, social workers, postgraduate students, undergraduate students, and scholars interested in studying identity. It provides insight into how identity in non-Western groups and contexts may both be informed by and may inform Western theoretical perspectives.

Personal and Organizational Excellence through Servant Leadership - Learning to Serve, Serving to Lead, Leading to Transform... Personal and Organizational Excellence through Servant Leadership - Learning to Serve, Serving to Lead, Leading to Transform (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Sen Sendjaya
R2,137 Discovery Miles 21 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an evidence-based actionable framework and measure of servant leadership to help management practitioners build effective and ethical workplaces. It explains the reasons why the best workplaces such as Starbucks, Southwest Airlines, Ritz-Carlton and ServiceMaster apply servant leadership. Servant leadership is an intellectually compelling and emotionally satisfying theory of leadership with relevance and application to the workplace settings. Based on multiple rigorous studies in the Western and Eastern contexts, the book outlines the six dimensions of servant leadership and the impacts they have on key outcomes such as citizenship behaviors, job satisfaction, team creativity and innovation, and organizational performance. The book outlines a measurement instrument that can be used for leadership assessment, selection and training purposes and to develop strategies to leverage the six behavioral dimensions of servant leadership at the personal, team and organizational level.

Making Career Stories - Navigating Work and a Sense of Security (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Mark Scillio Making Career Stories - Navigating Work and a Sense of Security (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Mark Scillio
R2,337 R1,864 Discovery Miles 18 640 Save R473 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is about how people construct career stories: the stories we use to make sense of our work life. Mark Scillio explores the idea of security in the current turbulent employment climate, investigating employment experiences in developed, wealthy countries like Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom-where careers have become fragmented, complex, and uncertain. Using Anthony Giddens' notion of ontological security, Scillio develops a concept of career security that goes beyond economic and financial concerns and encompasses the personal and social meaning of work. The ramifications of succeeding (or failing) to forge a good career narrative are explored through a series of detailed case studies.

Interpersonal Arguing (Paperback, New edition): Dale Hample Interpersonal Arguing (Paperback, New edition)
Dale Hample
R1,286 Discovery Miles 12 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the 2019 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award presented by the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association (NCA). Interpersonal Arguing is an accessible review of scholarship on key elements of face-to-face arguing, which is the interpersonal exchange of reasons. Topics include frames for understanding the nature of arguing, argument situations, serial arguments, argument dialogues, and international differences in how people understand interpersonal arguing. This is a thorough survey of the leading issues involved in understanding how people argue with one another.

Social and Family Issues in Shift Work and Non Standard Working Hours (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Irena Iskra-Golec, Janet... Social and Family Issues in Shift Work and Non Standard Working Hours (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Irena Iskra-Golec, Janet Barnes-Farrell, Philip Bohle
R4,335 Discovery Miles 43 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the effects of shift work and non standard working hours on family and social life. It features analysis and case studies from an international body of researchers from Europe, the Americas and Australia. It includes contributions from Germany, the United States, the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Australia, and Brazil, that fully examine this increasingly prevalent, and global, issue. The book starts by introducing the problems of work-family linkages, shift work and non-standard work hours. Next, it details the consequences of specific features of shift schedules, such as decreased opportunities for social participation, family problems and negative effects on partners and children as well as the impact of working time arrangements on work-family conflict over time. The book then looks at the consequences of shift work and non-standard work hours on family members and the workers themselves, including the sleep and daytime functioning of adolescent family members and the ways that non-standard work schedules intersect with the particular challenges and stresses of family responsibilities and strategies that workers use to manage these challenges in sectors where non-standard schedules are the norm. Last, the book considers the role of individual differences in understanding problems of work-family relationships, including a consideration of safety and health at work from the perspective of gender and an examination of the moderating role of chronotype and circadian type characteristics on work-family conflict and work-family facilitation among male shift workers.

Advanced Technologies Applied to Training Design - Proceedings of a Workshop Sponsored by the NATO Defense Research Group Held... Advanced Technologies Applied to Training Design - Proceedings of a Workshop Sponsored by the NATO Defense Research Group Held in Venice, Italy, October 22-24, 1991 (Hardcover, New)
Robert J. Seidel, Etc
R2,500 Discovery Miles 25 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Introduction: An Overview of Advanced Technologies Applied to Training Design; R. Seidel. Advanced Authoring Tools: An Authoring System for Intelligent Training; D. Gregory, et al. Models and Analytical Methods for Training: Model of Psychological Impacts on Military Training in Simulation; R. Otte. Applications of Embedded Training: Technology Initiatives for Portability of Computer Based Instruction; D. Fletcher. Advances in Hardware Technology: DVI and System Integration; P. Noja. Advances in Cognitive Theory: Implications of Advances in Cognitive Science for Intelligence Tutoring Systems; A. Samarapungavan, et al. Applications of Expert Sytems: Evaluation Models for Expert Systems in Military Training; D.L. Baker, H. O'Neil, Jr. Training Databases for Advanced Training: A NATO Database on Advanced Technology to Aid Training Design; J.D. Fletcher, et al. 12 additional articles. Index.

Rethinking Chinese Cultural Identity - "The Hualish" as an Innovative Concept (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Min Ding Rethinking Chinese Cultural Identity - "The Hualish" as an Innovative Concept (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Min Ding
R2,201 R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Save R608 (28%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Grounded in history and guided by theory, this book proposes a new inclusive cultural label, Hualish, to remedy the limitations of the word "Chinese" and replace it as the culture label for the people of "greater China" origin. The book first introduces the Culture Design Paradigm, a general culture design paradigm with three core components: vitality, structure, and foci. It then uses the Culture Design Paradigm to construct the new conceptual identity, Hualish. This is followed by detailed discussion of three practical paths that can lead to a desirable Hualish identity - the recipe path, the example path, and the normative path. Lastly, the book proposes Humanistic Hualish as a converging and gravitative Hualish culture.Built upon a rigorous academic foundation, the book provides practical guidance to individuals, families, associates, as well as organizations.

Augmented Humanity - Being and Remaining Agentic in a Digitalized World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Peter T. Bryant Augmented Humanity - Being and Remaining Agentic in a Digitalized World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Peter T. Bryant
R1,595 Discovery Miles 15 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This open access book will examine the implications of digitalization for the understanding of humanity, conceived as a community of intelligent agency. It addresses important topics across a range of social and behavioral theories and identifies a range of novel mechanisms and their social behavioral effects. Across the book, the author highlights the expansion of intelligent processing capability brought about by digitalization and the challenges this exposes for integrating artificial and human capabilities. It includes the altered effects of bounded rationality in problem solving and decision making; related changes in the perception of rationality, plus novel myopias and biases. It also seeks to address cognitive intersubjectivity, learning from performance and agentic self-generation; and the novel methods and patterns of reasoned thought which emerge in a digitalized world; and how these mechanisms will combine in making and remaking the world of human experience and understanding. This book examines the problematics and prospects for digitally augmented humanity. In doing so, it maps the terrain for a future science of augmented agency. It will have cross-disciplinary appeal to students and scholars of applied psychology, cognitive and behavioral science, organizational psychology and management, business, finance, and digital cultures and humanities.

Trust and Communication - Findings and Implications of Trust Research (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Bernd Bloebaum Trust and Communication - Findings and Implications of Trust Research (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Bernd Bloebaum
R4,384 Discovery Miles 43 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Trust is a fundamental concept in modern society. This book provides current findings of trust research from various disciplines: communication studies, information systems, educational and organizational psychology, sports psychology and economics. The volume analyses how trust relationships have changed and are still changing under the influence of digitalization. In addition to presenting the current state of research, the implications for trust relationships in the digital world are examined. The book brings together empirical findings with the implications for media, business, sports and science. It is of value to interdisciplinary researchers and graduate students.

Playfulness in Coaching - Exploring Our Untapped Potential Through Playfulness, Creativity and Imagination (Paperback):... Playfulness in Coaching - Exploring Our Untapped Potential Through Playfulness, Creativity and Imagination (Paperback)
Stephanie Wheeler, Teresa Leyman
R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Whilst the topic is gathering significant interest, this is the first book to present a guide to coaching and playfulness. It has the ‘why didn’t I think of this’ factor: once said, it seems obvious but, until then, few people had thought of it. Written by two coaching practitioners, the book provides a practical and cohesive manual for coaches to incorporate playfulness into their praxes. Fully researched, and evidence provided to support the practice throughout.

Playfulness in Coaching - Exploring Our Untapped Potential Through Playfulness, Creativity and Imagination (Hardcover):... Playfulness in Coaching - Exploring Our Untapped Potential Through Playfulness, Creativity and Imagination (Hardcover)
Stephanie Wheeler, Teresa Leyman
R4,297 Discovery Miles 42 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Whilst the topic is gathering significant interest, this is the first book to present a guide to coaching and playfulness. It has the ‘why didn’t I think of this’ factor: once said, it seems obvious but, until then, few people had thought of it. Written by two coaching practitioners, the book provides a practical and cohesive manual for coaches to incorporate playfulness into their praxes. Fully researched, and evidence provided to support the practice throughout.

Design Theory - Methods and Organization for Innovation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Pascal le Masson, Benoit Weil, Armand... Design Theory - Methods and Organization for Innovation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Pascal le Masson, Benoit Weil, Armand Hatchuel
R3,559 Discovery Miles 35 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This textbook presents the core of recent advances in design theory and its implications for design methods and design organization. Providing a unified perspective on different design methods and approaches, from the most classic (systematic design) to the most advanced (C-K theory), it offers a unique and integrated presentation of traditional and contemporary theories in the field. Examining the principles of each theory, this guide utilizes numerous real life industrial applications, with clear links to engineering design, industrial design, management, economics, psychology and creativity. Containing a section of exams with detailed answers, it is useful for courses in design theory, engineering design and advanced innovation management. "Students and professors, practitioners and researchers in diverse disciplines, interested in design, will find in this book a rich and vital source for studying fundamental design methods and tools as well as the most advanced design theories that work in practice". Professor Yoram Reich, Tel Aviv University, Editor-in-Chief, Research In Engineering Design. "Twenty years of research in design theory and engineering have shown that training in creative design is indeed possible and offers remarkably operational methods - this book is indispensable for all leaders and practitioners who wish to strengthen theinnovation capacity of their company." Pascal Daloz, Executive Vice President, Dassault Systemes

Designing Effective Mentoring Programs - An Evidence-Based Approach (Paperback): T. Allen Designing Effective Mentoring Programs - An Evidence-Based Approach (Paperback)
T. Allen
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents an evidence-based best practice approach to the design, development, and operation of formal mentoring programs within organizations. The book includes practical tools and resources that organizations can use, such as training exercises, sample employee development plans, and mentoring contracts. Case studies from organizations with successful mentoring programs help illustrate various principles and best practice strategies suggested in the book. A start-to-finish guide that can be used by management, employee development professionals, and formal mentoring program administrators is also included.

Head, Heart and Hands Listening in Coach Practice - The Listening Coach (Paperback): Kymberly Dakin-Neal Head, Heart and Hands Listening in Coach Practice - The Listening Coach (Paperback)
Kymberly Dakin-Neal
R996 Discovery Miles 9 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an exploration of intentional listening as an essential skill for coaches. It introduces the Head, Heart, and Hands Listening model as a vital tool to amplify effective listening in coaching practice. Accessible and applicable, the book explores the three listening modalities of Head, Heart, and Hands as active, though largely unconscious, lenses that inform the potency of our listening. Dakin-Neal argues that once coaches identify 'how' they listen, they can assist their clients in more targeted ways to positively impact their personal and professional lives. Chapters are divided into the three listening modalities, Head, Heart, and Hands, and are filled with case studies, stories, reflective questions and exercises from the author's experience to help coaches' strengthen their listening skills. The book also includes a comprehensive listening assessment for coaches to use in practice. This book is essential reading for coaches in practice and in training as well as organizational psychologists, HR professionals, and those working within corporations.

Head, Heart and Hands Listening in Coach Practice - The Listening Coach (Hardcover): Kymberly Dakin-Neal Head, Heart and Hands Listening in Coach Practice - The Listening Coach (Hardcover)
Kymberly Dakin-Neal
R3,976 Discovery Miles 39 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an exploration of intentional listening as an essential skill for coaches. It introduces the Head, Heart, and Hands Listening model as a vital tool to amplify effective listening in coaching practice. Accessible and applicable, the book explores the three listening modalities of Head, Heart, and Hands as active, though largely unconscious, lenses that inform the potency of our listening. Dakin-Neal argues that once coaches identify 'how' they listen, they can assist their clients in more targeted ways to positively impact their personal and professional lives. Chapters are divided into the three listening modalities, Head, Heart, and Hands, and are filled with case studies, stories, reflective questions and exercises from the author's experience to help coaches' strengthen their listening skills. The book also includes a comprehensive listening assessment for coaches to use in practice. This book is essential reading for coaches in practice and in training as well as organizational psychologists, HR professionals, and those working within corporations.

The Strengths-Based Organization - How to boost inclusivity, wellbeing and performance (Paperback): Emily Hutchinson, Caroline... The Strengths-Based Organization - How to boost inclusivity, wellbeing and performance (Paperback)
Emily Hutchinson, Caroline Brown
R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Every leader cares about inclusivity, wellbeing and performance. For technical organizations these issues are especially acute: in the least diverse sectors, with every-increasing issues around mental health and resilience, companies need to realize continuous gains in performance and productivity to stay ahead,or even just to stay in the game,in a fiercely competitive space. How can leaders square the circle?This book will show you how to build a Strengths-Based Organization: an organization which is based on the scientific understanding of what helps individuals to flourish and organizations to reap the benefits.

The Economics of Motivation and Organization - An Introduction (Paperback): Peter-J. Jost The Economics of Motivation and Organization - An Introduction (Paperback)
Peter-J. Jost
R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this unique book, Peter-J. Jost provides a comprehensive economic-psychological approach for successfully managing employees. Based on the analysis of the employee?s individual work behavior, he illustrates that instead of treating employees as input elements of production, and managing and controlling their work, organizations need to motivate their employees to act in the interest of the firm and in accordance with its goals. The author considers the employee as the ?building block? holding economic organizations together, and outlines how their personal circumstances, behavior and working conditions affect motivation. The influence of individual decision-making processes and psychological factors on behavior in the workplace is also discussed. Theoretical insights are underpinned by a range of case studies, and the impact of inadequate leadership on firms is highlighted. Motivation problems within organizations are evaluated and potential solutions prescribed. This book will prove an insightful and fascinating read for researchers, students and practitioners wishing to develop a deeper understanding of the myriad factors that affect the motivation of employees within an organization.

Systems Psychodynamics - Innovative Approaches to Change, Whole Systems and Complexity (Hardcover): David Lawlor, Mannie Sher Systems Psychodynamics - Innovative Approaches to Change, Whole Systems and Complexity (Hardcover)
David Lawlor, Mannie Sher
R4,423 Discovery Miles 44 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Draws on internationally recognized Tavistock system * Builds on principles set out in related 'Introduction' * Contains contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners in a range of related disciplines

Supporting Sleep - The Importance of Social Relations at Work (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): M. Nordin Supporting Sleep - The Importance of Social Relations at Work (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
M. Nordin
R1,575 Discovery Miles 15 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Social support and sleep are both health promoting factors and important in the prevention of illness and sick-leave. Promoting healthy work by providing good conditions for strong social relationships and by preventing bullying or harassment can improve sleep and consequently employee health, increasing work productivity and efficiency overall.

The Social Psychology of Inequality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Jolanda Jetten, Kim Peters The Social Psychology of Inequality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Jolanda Jetten, Kim Peters
R4,396 Discovery Miles 43 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Economic inequality has been of considerable interest to academics, citizens, and politicians worldwide for the past decade-and while economic inequality has attracted a considerable amount of research attention, it is only more recently that researchers have considered that economic inequality may have broader societal implications. However, while there is an increasingly clear picture of the varied ways in which economic inequality harms the fabric of society, there is a relatively poor understanding of the social psychological processes that are at work in unequal societies. This edited book aims to build on this emerging area of research by bringing together researchers who are at the forefront of this development and who can therefore provide timely insight to academics and practitioners who are grappling with the impact of economic inequality. This book will address questions relating to perceptions of inequality, mechanisms underlying effects of inequality, various consequences of inequality and the factors that contribute to the maintenance of inequality. The target audiences are students at advanced undergraduate or graduate level, as well as scholars and professionals in the field. The book fills a niche of both applied and practical relevance, strongly emphasizing theory and integration of different perspectives in social psychology. Given the broad interest in inequality within the social sciences, the book will be accessible to sociologists and political scientists as well as social, organizational, and developmental psychologists. The insights brought together in The Social Psychology of Inequality will contribute to a broader understanding of the far-reaching costs of inequality for the social health of a society and its citizens. "This edited volume brings together cutting-edge social psychological research addressing one of the most pressing issues of our times - economic inequality. Collectively, the chapters illuminate why inequality has negative effects on individuals and societies, when and for whom these negative effects are most likely to emerge, and the psychological mechanisms that maintain inequality. This comprehensive volume is an essential read for those interested in understanding and ameliorating inequality." -Brenda Major, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California "This invaluable volume demonstrates the indispensable and powerful contribution that social psychologists can make to our understanding of societal inequality. For those outside of social psychology it provides a unique and comprehensive overview of what social psychology has to offer, and for social psychologists it is exemplary in demonstrating how to make a systematic contribution to the understanding of a hotly debated real-world issue. Scholars and students alike and from various disciplines will gain much from reading this fascinating and inspiring social psychological journey." -Maykel Verkuyten, Professor in Interdisciplinary Social Science, University of Utrecht "The Social Psychology of Inequality offers a superb and timely social-psychological analysis of the causes and consequence of increasing wealth and income gaps. With its refreshingly international authorship, this volume offers profound insights into the cognitive and social mechanisms that help maintain, but potentially also to overcome, an economy that is rigged in favor of the wealthy. A new and stimulating voice, illustrating science in the service of a fairer and more democratic society." -Anne Maass, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Padova "This volume assembles an impressive list of leading international scholars to address a timely and important issue, the causes and consequences of economic inequality. The approach to the topic is social psychological, but the editors and chapters make valuable connections to related literatures on socio-structural influences in allied disciplines, such as economics, political science, and sociology. The Social Psychology of Inequality offers cutting-edge insights into the psychological dynamics of inequality and novel synthesis of structural- and individual-level influences and outcomes of inequality. It should attract a wide audience and will set the agenda for research on economic inequality well into the future." -John F. Dovidio, Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology and Public Health, Yale University

College Student Leadership Development (Paperback): Valerie I. Sessa College Student Leadership Development (Paperback)
Valerie I. Sessa
R1,623 Discovery Miles 16 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

College Student Leadership Development introduces the idea that we all play a part in producing leadership and that learning how to participate in the process of leadership is something that all college students need to learn as part of their college academic experience. Rather than approaching leadership from the traditional model emphasizing specific skill sets, this book acquaints students with how to learn leadership using the ReAChS model of leadership development (Reflection, Assessment, Challenge, Support). It then encourages students to directly engage their own experiences to hone their leader identity and understanding of leadership as well as improve their leadership knowledge and skills. Step-by-step exercises lead students in reflecting on their experiences, assessing themselves, choosing challenges, creating support networks, and finally capturing and communicating to others what they have learned. Throughout, examples of student leaders' experiences provide readers with powerful examples of others' successes and struggles in leadership alongside the latest psychological research on learning and development.

Out of Office - the big problem and bigger promise of working from home (Paperback): Anne Helen Petersen, Charlie Warzel Out of Office - the big problem and bigger promise of working from home (Paperback)
Anne Helen Petersen, Charlie Warzel
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working from home, by two experts who work - and live - together. Out of Office is a book for every office worker - from employees to managers - navigating the return to the office since the outbreak of COVID-19. The lockdowns of 2020-21 have shown us a new path forward, one that doesn't involve hellish daily commutes and set schedules that no longer make sense. But how can we realise that future in a way that benefits workers and companies alike? Using groundbreaking reporting and interviews with workers and managers around the world, Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen illuminate the key values that should be driving this conversation: trust, fairness, flexibility, inclusive workplaces, equity, and work-life balance. Above all, they argue that companies need to listen to their employees - and that this will promote, rather than impede, productivity and profitability. Out of Office is about so much more than Zoom meetings and hybrid schedules: it aims to reshape our entire relationship to the office.

Fairness of CEO Compensation - A Multi-Faceted and Multi-Cultural Framework to Structure Executive Pay (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Fairness of CEO Compensation - A Multi-Faceted and Multi-Cultural Framework to Structure Executive Pay (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Mehtap Aldogan Eklund
R3,064 Discovery Miles 30 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Executive compensation and its fairness to stakeholders are topics of heated debate on platforms ranging from news forums to financial markets. This book stimulates critical thinking on executive compensation and guides academics and practitioners on the key concepts by developing a multi-faceted and multi-cultural framework. It also presents the new 'Fair CEO Compensation,' which uses a scientifically developed and structured stakeholder-based approach to reach optimal and fair CEO compensation, without capping bonuses or variable pay by rules and regulations. Financial, non-financial, organizational, strategic, cultural, personal, and social aspects are all taken into account in the framework. In addition to implementation guidelines and real-world examples, the book presents a checklist for businesses to measure the fairness of their CEO compensation based on the suggested framework. Moreover, the author also provides a survey template to help businesses investigate their employees' perception of the fairness of their CEO's compensation.

Systems Engineering, Systems Thinking, and Learning - A Case Study in Space Industry (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Hubert Anton Moser Systems Engineering, Systems Thinking, and Learning - A Case Study in Space Industry (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Hubert Anton Moser
R4,809 Discovery Miles 48 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on systems engineering, systems thinking, and how that thinking can be learned in practice. It describes a novel analytical framework based on activity theory for understanding how systems thinking evolves and how it can be improved to support multidisciplinary teamwork in the context of system development and systems engineering. This method, developed using data collected over four years from three different small space systems engineering organizations, can be applied in a wide variety of work activities in the context of engineering design and beyond in order to monitor and analyze multidisciplinary interactions in working teams over time. In addition, the book presents a practical strategy called WAVES (Work Activity for a Evolution of Systems engineering and thinking), which fosters the practical learning of systems thinking with the aim of improving process development in different industries. The book offers an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners interested in systems thinking and in solutions to support its evolution. Beyond its contribution to a better understanding of systems engineering, systems thinking and how it can be learned in real-world contexts, it also introduce a suitable analysis framework that helps to bridge the gap between the latest social science research and engineering research.

Ghosts in the Human Psyche - The Story of a 'Muslim Armenian' (Paperback): Vamik Volkan Ghosts in the Human Psyche - The Story of a 'Muslim Armenian' (Paperback)
Vamik Volkan
R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Vamik Volkan examines the impact of past and present historical events, cultural elements, political movements and their mental images on the psyche of individuals. Beginning with the history of the debates concerning the relevance of external events to the human psyche, Volkan moves on to look at the spread of psychoanalysis worldwide and the need to become familiar with the cultural, historical, and political issues when working abroad. The remaining chapters follow the story of a successful businessman who calls himself a 'Muslim Armenian'. His psychological journey clearly illustrates how ghosts from the past can remain alive and active in our lives, and how a clear understanding of his people's history and culture allowed the analyst to understand some important causes of his symptoms and personality characteristics. By presenting a total case report, Volkan illustrates the methods applied to improve the analysand's psychological health. By presenting a case from the viewpoint of a psychoanalytic supervisor, including the supervisor's reactions to the individual being analysed, he has exposed another rich topic to consideration. With this book, Vamik Volkan has given us much to reflect upon.

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