Human Resource Management

Philip Barker and Paul van Schaik bring together chapters to explain the psychology and technology behind performance support before moving on to explore the design of performance support tools for a wide range of applications including learning, knowledge management and research as well as overtly ..

Emotional intelligence is, at its heart, all about self-awareness; an understanding of how people relate and respond to you. This book features training activities that provide managers and employees with a series of proven exercises for raising personal and social awareness, skills for managing sel..

This book, first published in 1990, is a practical manual which presents guidance on how to carry out and evaluate an employee relations audit. This title also provides audits for five key areas of employee relations, including communication and consultation, equality of opportunity and disciplinary..

In this title, first published in 1996, the author explores the idea that workers tend to quit their jobs when job costs outweigh job rewards when better alternatives exist. Moreover, personality interacts with employees’ evaluation of job costs and rewards and quitting behaviour...

Whilst the non-delegator works frantically, grabs lunches, and is generally ineffective, the successful delegator has time for work and personal life. This work seeks to help you to let go, manage upward and downward delegation, and accomplish more through others...

This title was first published in 2002: European Works Councils exemplify a new mode of regulation at the European level, not only within industrial relations but in the field of European integration more widely conceived - Europe as a multi-level system of governance within a framework of devolved ..

Luca Solari contends that this is because the change ahead requires a complete reshuffling of our conceptions of what it means to run an organization, and this will not come without pain for those in charge of managing, who are unable to shift their roles. It comes as no surprise that the complex pa..

Luca Solari contends that this is because the change ahead requires a complete reshuffling of our conceptions of what it means to run an organization, and this will not come without pain for those in charge of managing, who are unable to shift their roles. It comes as no surprise that the complex pa..

From Accidents to Zero opens up the field of safety culture and breaks it down into bite-sized pieces to facilitate new, critical thought and inspire practical action Each of the 26 core concepts of safety culture includes explanation, commentary, reflections and simple activities. They range from b..

An ideal companion for any student or researcher of HRM, occupational or organizational psychology, or applied psychology in general, Peter Saville’s selected works represent the thinking of one of the most influential psychologists of our time...

This book, first published in 1998, is an attempt to better understand the human resource programs utilized by small firms and the basis for their choice. Much of the study is designed to provide a working framework from which to begin to understand the myriad of human resource decisions made in the..

Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance describes the work-life practices of men in the United States. The purpose is to increase gender equality at work for all employees. With a focus on leave policy inequalities, this book argues that men experience a phenomenon called "the glass handcuffs," which ..