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The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development Research Practice and Policy

The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development Research Practice and Policy

The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development provides educators researchers and policy makers with information on evidence-based programs and activities. Chapters describe ways that current research can be used to promote the design of more effective career development programs and services at local state and national levels. Promising career development practices applicable to a range of settings and special populations are identified as are strategies for communicating evidence in ways that influence career and workforce development public policy. The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development can be used by policy makers and grant program officers to identify key career development ingredients that should be considered in proposals; researchers seeking to make their career development research relevant and practical; and practitioners implementing or advocating for career development programs and services. | The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development Research Practice and Policy

GBP 115.00
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Tolley's Managing a Diverse Workforce

Tolley's Managing a Diverse Workforce

Legislation governing employee welfare is becoming increasingly strict and nowhere is this more prevalent than in dealing with a diverse workplace. Every organisation contains employees who can be considered diverse. Diverse employee can include pregnant women people with illnesses young and old workers and those with disabilities. In today‘s society where more people with disability and illness are entering the workplace it is essential for both the organisation and the employee that managers are able to deal effectively with a diverse workplace. Tolley‘s Managing a Diverse Workplace provides unrivalled guidance on complying with the legislation and regulations specific to the management of diverse employees. Aimed at both HR and health and safety managers this unique handbook comprehensively covers the key legislation that affects this important area. Other important features include: Legislation regulation and the employer Legislation regulation and health & safety Managing the employment aspects of diverse employees Managing the health & safety of diverse employees Management systems / tools Managing changing relationships The future of diverse employeesWith corporate social responsibility being such a hot topic the effective management of diverse employees is high on most companies agendas. This one-stop reference guide will ensure that organisations are sufficiently equipped to identify those workers considered to be at risk and manage these risks to their mutual benefit. | Tolley's Managing a Diverse Workforce

GBP 175.00
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Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity

Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity

This book brings critical perspectives towards questions of how precarity and precariousness affect the work of leaders and educators in schools and universities around the world. It theorises the effects of precarity and the experiences of educators working in precarious environments. The work of school improvement takes time. Developing a highly-skilled and confident teaching workforce requires a long-term investment and commitment. Schools in vulnerable communities face higher rates of turnover and difficulty in staffing than advantaged schools do. Tackling the big issues in education – inequity opportunity gaps democracy and cohesion – also takes time. Education systems and sectors around the globe are functioning in increasingly casualised workforce environments which has implications for leadership in schools and in higher education institutions. Precarity also holds serious implications for policymakers and for the leaders and educators who have to enact those policies. This book brings together experts in the field to offer critical perspectives on questions of how we might theorise the effects of precarity and the experiences of those people working in precarious environments. Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of education leadership and policy educational administration research methods and sociology. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration and History.

GBP 130.00
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Women of Color in the Aviation Industry

Women of Color in the Aviation Industry

Women of Color in the Aviation Industry offers a critical look at the reasons why the aviation industry remains underrepresented with minoritized groups particularly women of color. Despite the increased efforts to advocate for diversity equity and inclusion within the industry the diversity of its employees remains stagnant. Through interviews and conversations with a number of women of color this book argues that the industry is not doing enough to create and sustain a more equitable workforce. In this book readers will discover why less than 4% of qualified commercial airline pilots are women and of that less than 1% are Black women. The numbers of Latinx Indigenous people Asian and other people of color working in the aviation industry are lacking. This book explores how the aviation industry often fails to incorporate the experiences of women of color when developing and implementing diversity equity and inclusion initiatives and offers different perspectives on why it remains challenging to recruit and retain minoritized people to the industry. By bringing in the experiences of a variety of women this book asks readers to reflect on what it means for an organization to describe itself as one that supports diversity equity and inclusion. This timely important book is a valuable resource for a wide spectrum of researchers and students in aviation as well as gender race and ethnic studies. Whilst the examples in this book serve as a case study for aviation it can be used to examine other fields encountering similar challenges in creating a more equitable workforce.

GBP 130.00
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Towards Rural Education for the Common Good Resisting Capitalist and Neoliberal Priorities in Rural Schooling in the United States

Towards Rural Education for the Common Good Resisting Capitalist and Neoliberal Priorities in Rural Schooling in the United States

This book examines the current and future state of rural education in North America through the lens of Franco Berardi’s Futurability. Through critical examination of examples and current trends toward corporatization and privatization of rural education the volume highlights how future possibilities and social imagination in rural spaces have been limited by neoliberal forces capitalist interests and workforce education. Cervone demonstrates how Berardi’s concept of creating future can be embraced to foster critical thought challenge injustices and open opportunity. With this line of analysis the book ultimately supports an ethos of a return to education for the common good. Bringing an important perspective to the field of rural education scholarship this work will be of interest to scholars and researchers in sociology of education and education policy. | Towards Rural Education for the Common Good Resisting Capitalist and Neoliberal Priorities in Rural Schooling in the United States

GBP 120.00
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Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements The Built Environment at Work

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements The Built Environment at Work

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways. This unrivalled edited collection of chapters analyses problems and presents possible solutions related to the employment and conditions of workers in the construction industry. It provides comprehensive coverage of the relationship between the global workforce and the built environment and is divided into four topical areas: how labour and the built environment relate to development; employment generation in the built environment; quality of employment in the built environment; and the impact of the built environment on labour in other sectors. Underpinning the entire book is the premise that the way the built environment is produced and its main products – buildings cities and towns – have an impact on large numbers of workers. At the same time the quality of the built environment requires construction workers who are well trained and with good working conditions. While cities and towns are the engines of economic growth they will not be able to fulfil their economic potential if poverty in the workforce is not addressed. Those who are unemployed underemployed or work in unfavourable conditions cannot fully contribute to production and at the same time are limited in their ability to purchase goods and services – therefore limiting economic growth and restricting improvements in their living standards. In addition investments in infrastructure housing and inner-city redevelopment cannot be sustainable if labour issues – i. e. poverty – are not addressed. This book aims at analysing this complex set of issues comprehensively and will be essential reading to a wide range of researchers across the interdisciplinary intersections of construction business and management economic development urban studies sociology political science and project management. | Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements The Built Environment at Work

GBP 160.00
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Migration Tourism and Social Sustainability

Migration Tourism and Social Sustainability

The distinctions between tourism and migration are increasingly blurred. Tourism often drives various forms of mobility and an international workforce is essential to maintaining functioning tourism economies. This book explores intersections of tourism and migration considering their relationships with and impacts on social sustainability. The chapters explore in a variety of contexts how the planning development and governance of tourism affects the sustainability of communities which consequently influences attitudes towards migrants and tourists. They also consider how migrant-local connections may evolve creating opportunities for positive symbiotic co-existence or intergroup tensions and exploitative relationships. The book paves the way for future work examining new forms and interactions between migration and tourism that contribute to social sustainability. This book will be of great value to students academics and researchers interested in tourism geography migration/diaspora studies and sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Tourism Geographies. | Migration Tourism and Social Sustainability

GBP 120.00
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Researching Racism in Nursing Reflexive Accounts and Personal Stories

Researching Racism in Nursing Reflexive Accounts and Personal Stories

Research shows that racism affects the working lives of nurses and nurse academics as well as healthcare service delivery and outcomes. This book looks at the impact of racism from experiences of microaggression to discrimination and structural and institutionalised racism. Focusing on the work of six doctoral researchers and practitioners who have chosen to address and investigate the racism they experience witness or observe in the UK’s National Health Service and Universities this book includes personal reflections on their findings. The substantive chapters are framed by a discussion of policy and research on racism thoughts on research supervision within this field and a drawing together of the key themes developed through this book. Giving voice to nurses’ and lecturers’ responses to racism in nursing education and practice this is an important contribution for students researchers and practitioners with an interest in health inequalities healthcare organisations research methods and workforce development. | Researching Racism in Nursing Reflexive Accounts and Personal Stories

GBP 130.00
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Mapping the Field 75 Years of Educational Review Volume II

Mapping the Field 75 Years of Educational Review Volume II

From its origins in the University of Birmingham’s then Institute of Education in 1948 Educational Review has emerged as a leading international journal for generic educational research. Seventy-five years on Mapping the Field presents a detailed account of education theory and research policy and practice through the lens of key articles published in the journal over this timespan. Volume II opens with Part I a collection of articles examining teachers’ job (dis/) satisfaction and stress and the gendered composition of the teaching workforce. Articles in Part II trace a shift in academic focus from schools seen as families/communities to the parent-school relationship. The concepts of inclusion and equality—and strategies for their fulfilment in education—are interrogated in Part III. The volume concludes with Part IV in which diverse identities in the education field are represented. Curated and introduced by the editors the articles included in both volumes of Mapping the Field represent a careful selection from the work of scholars whose ideas have been and continue to be influential in the field of education. Overall this major text covers a wide range of topics and offers original insights into educational policy provision processes and practice from around the world. | Mapping the Field 75 Years of Educational Review Volume II

GBP 130.00
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The Culture Builders Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance

The Culture Builders Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance

As with many people-oriented initiatives employee engagement remains an emerging science with as many advocates as detractors. In The Culture Builders Jane Sparrow shares the insight of her research and experience into how companies are creating an engaged workforce. Along the way she looks at the evidence the case for engagement and how organizations are measuring and defining it. Having an engagement strategy is merely a first step and so the book explores how to enable the manager-as-engager. Alongside the practical models and the guidance there are stories and examples from leaders and organizations allowing you to learn amongst other things about the strong sense of purpose felt in John Lewis Partnership; the importance Innocence places on values; how Sony has used visual metaphors to give context and strategic direction and how MGM Resorts targets engagement strategies to the needs of specific employee groups. The need for sustained employee performance has been put into sharp focus in recent years. The Culture Builders is a book that provides the theory and practice to connect employee engagement to long-term performance. Simply reading it won‘t guarantee that performance. Reading it learning and applying the lessons it offers will dramatically improve your chances. | The Culture Builders Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance

GBP 175.00
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Universities in Times of Crisis and Disruption Dislocated Complexity

Universities in Times of Crisis and Disruption Dislocated Complexity

This book examines the role and future of universities in times of chronic disruption and crisis – presented via an original conceptual framework which the authors term ‘Dislocated Complexity’ – and discusses how to move forward in the face of severely disrupted social political economic and environment contexts. Demonstrating how global crises especially the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically dislocated and disrupted all contexts of society the authors use this framework of Dislocated Complexity to propose a set of characteristics and values that underpin roles for universities considering the future of universities with regards to teaching and learning research management and leadership workforce change policymaking and engagement. Novel innovative concepts and theoretical perspectives are brought to the analysis of futures roles and activities of universities by the authors such as ‘Unscripted Agency’ ‘Clashing -ologies’ ‘Emanant Trust’ and ‘Dislocated Complexity Leadership Theory’. Ultimately calling for a rethink of university futures this timely book will be of great interest to academics researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of higher education research and teaching and learning. It will also be of interest to university managers educational policy makers and those who are ‘hidden’ or informal educators in the community. | Universities in Times of Crisis and Disruption Dislocated Complexity

GBP 130.00
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The Japanese Economy Strategies to Cope with a Shrinking and Ageing Population

The Japanese Economy Strategies to Cope with a Shrinking and Ageing Population

Japan has many unique strengths but it also faces numerous challenges many of which are related to population ageing. Rapid demographic change is projected to reduce Japan’s population by one-quarter by 2060 while increasing the share of elderly people from 29% of the total population to 38% which would be the highest share among advanced countries. This book analyses the Japanese economy and the challenges it faces and suggests policies to promote wellbeing high living standards fiscal sustainability social inclusion and environmental sustainability. The book’s 24 chapters focus on key aspects of Japan’s economy including the labour market innovation education women in the workforce corporate governance small and medium-sized enterprises the service sector agriculture fiscal and monetary policy income distribution and policies to address climate change. The volume aims to increase understanding of Japan the world’s third-largest economy and a key player in the global economy. It will assist policymakers and serve as a resource for academics and students of economics and public policy. As Japan is a front-runner in population ageing the book’s analysis and policy recommendations are highly relevant to other countries that are or soon will be facing similar challenges. | The Japanese Economy Strategies to Cope with a Shrinking and Ageing Population

GBP 130.00
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Global Mindset and International Business Driving Process Outsourcing Organizations

Global Mindset and International Business Driving Process Outsourcing Organizations

Global mindset is an emerging concept influenced by globalization that can support companies’ growth in international settings and help develop a more effective skilled workforce that can be open and adaptable. This book presents an analysis of current global mindset knowledge and explores how national culture and international business behaviors affect global mindset development in business process outsourcing organizations in both managerial and non-managerial groups. The authors outline how processes of skill development and their final impact differ within multinational enterprises among managers and non-managers and present the implications on how to apply it in various seniority talent groups. The theoretical and practical research discusses and emphasizes the need to involve employees in international relationship building developing international know-how and focusing on the methods of communication and management in business because they stimulate the development of global mindset among managers and non-managers contributing to further business success. This book will find an audience with researchers and astute students within international business cross-cultural management and business process outsourcing in particular. It will also be a valuable resource for those researching and operating in global teams. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. Funded by Uniwersytet Jagielloński. | Global Mindset and International Business Driving Process Outsourcing Organizations

GBP 130.00
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The Making and Breaking of the Australian Family

The Making and Breaking of the Australian Family

Once everyone knew what the family was. It was something natural and without a history - mum dad and the kids. Divorce women in the workforce de facto relationships and the sexual liberation movements have fractured the old certainties. Nowadays there is more talk about the family than ever even if no-one is quite sure what it is anymore. The making and breaking of the Australian family looks at the family in history. It traces the shift from the household economy of the late nineteenth century to the child-centred nuclear family of the mid-twentieth century to the recent proliferation of households. The book argues that the so-called traditional family was a quite recent creation and that its fragmentation is obscured by new redefinitions of the family. The making and breaking of the Australian family addresses the changing experiences of childhood parenting home neighbourhood work birth and sexuality. It examines the expansion of the market and the state patterns of class mobilisation the reconstruction of masculinity and femininity and the creative strategies of ordinary people in everyday life. This is a lively and accessible book which will prove a valuable reference for students of history sociology women's studies and Australian studies and will generate wide discussion amongst people concerned with family policy welfare and contemporary social issues.

GBP 130.00
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Coach Education in Football Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives

Coach Education in Football Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives

Association Football is undoubtedly a global sport with millions of individuals participating in more than 200 countries. The need for an educated football coaching workforce to deliver appropriate coaching practices has never been greater. Formal coach education which is often the primary medium for developing football coaches is socially constructed meaning an array of social cultural and historical factors underpin the design and delivery of any provision. Coach Education in Football: Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives is the first book to explicitly explore these aspects by providing critical insight into football coach education programmes from across the globe. Each chapter organised via a central theme highlights a contemporary issue affecting football coach education and development within a specific country offering insights into the contextual opportunities and challenges. The book covers essential topics including the progression of female football coaches coaches’ perspectives towards current provision technological and pedagogical advances and the historical development of formal coach education. Each chapter demonstrates the complexities associated with developing football coaches within grassroots and high-performance domains while providing recommendations for national governing bodies policy makers and coach developers. This book is the first of its kind to explicitly investigate football coach education globally. This accessible book is an important read for students academics and practitioners with an interest in sports coaching coach education and football. | Coach Education in Football Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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Shaping Nations and Markets Identity Capital Trade and the Populist Rage

Shaping Nations and Markets Identity Capital Trade and the Populist Rage

Shaping Nations and Markets employs a mixed methods approach to contend that economic ideas organization of domestic interests and their economic power asymmetries of information and political institutions do not sufficiently explain the formation of national interests in processes of trade liberalization. The author proposes that something is missing—identity capital—which also empowers economic sectors that share either liberalizing or protectionist interests. Identity capital is an economic sector’s contribution to the stability of a national identity narrative; it correlates with the degree to which the workforce of any sector represents the dominant conception of national identity. Identity capital creates political power asymmetries among those sectors and impacts the formation of populist movements in both developed and developing states. This book offers a theoretical framework to unpack national identity trade liberalization nationalist-populism domestic politics and globalization. The author argues that the key for identifying whether liberalizing or protectionist coalitions prevail in trade negotiations is identity capital. He offers a comparison of the three largest contemporary federal multicultural democracies: Brazil India and the United States from the Doha Development Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 to the rise of populism in these countries in recent years. This book will be of great interest to graduate students and scholars of international relations international studies political science comparative politics and economic sociology. | Shaping Nations and Markets Identity Capital Trade and the Populist Rage

GBP 130.00
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Six Sigma

Six Sigma

There are a number of distinctive features of this book that makes it different from other on Six Sigma. It recognizes that there are two diametrically opposing views expressed on Six Sigma those that are strongly in favour and those that are not for various reasons. The book deals head on with the principle reasons for such hostility. It cuts through the hype associated with the brand name. It proposes simple remedies for certain defined frailties in the standard approach particularly those related to the Sigma Measure that provides the brand name for the Six Sigma breakthrough strategy. The book is highly supportive of the Six Sigma continuous improvement process provided it is tailored to the needs and expectations of a particular organization. The commitment and active participation of top management is emphasized to ensure the necessary change in culture and priorities demanded in most organizations. Practical guidance is given in the setting up operating and developing the project by project approach across an organisation. The book also covers how to equip a critical mass of members in an organization with the core workforce competencies required to get the desired results. The book covers the realities of applying Six Sigma in a range of functions within an organization and also to various types of organizations from the manufacturing sector to commerce and public service. It demonstrates how statistical thinking coupled with the application of technical and operational knowledge of processes and focus provided by Six Sigma can considerably enhance quality competitiveness effectiveness and efficiency. Statistical process control is a tool which enables both manufacturers and suppliers to achieve control of product quality by means of the application of statistical methods in the controlling process. This book

GBP 175.00
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The Informal Sector and the Environment

The Informal Sector and the Environment

The informal economy – broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation – sustains a large part of the world's workforce. It is a diverse complex and growing area of activity. However being largely unregulated its impact on the environment has not been closely scrutinised or analysed. This edited volume demonstrates that the informal sector is a major source of environmental pollution and a major reason behind the environmental degradation accompanying the expansion of economic activity in developing countries. Environmental regulation and economic incentive policies are difficult to implement in this sector because economic units are unregistered geographically dispersed and difficult to identify. Moreover given their limited capital base they cannot afford to pay pollution fees or install pollution abating equipment. Informal manufacturing units often operate under unscientific and unhealthy conditions further contributing to polluting the environment. The book emphasizes and examines these challenges and their solutions encountered in various sectors of the informal economy including urban waste pickers small-scale farmers informal workers home-based workers street vendors and more. If the informal sector is to Leave no one behind (as the Sustainable Development Goals promise) and contribute to inclusive growth (an objective of the green economy) then its impact on the economy as well as the environment has to be carefully considered. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on both the informal economy and sustainable development and will be of great interest to readers in economics geography politics environment studies and public policy more broadly. Chapter 4 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license | The Informal Sector and the Environment

GBP 130.00
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Building the Integrated Company

Building the Integrated Company

This title was first published in 2000: Global competition is increasingly impacting on even the most isolated of companies; the only way for any company to sustain competitive advantage is by tapping into the single remaining area of great potential - the management of people. If we want to be an above-average company we will need an above-average ratio of above-average people who perform at above-average levels. None of which will happen without above-average levels of management. Malcolm Birkin’s Building the Integrated Company offers a model for exploiting the human potential within organizations. This potential is one which in previous decades through an absence of focus on business basics and an adherence to mistaken ideas about sustainable competitive advantage we have contrived to turn into all-too-limited performance. The first stage in any new learning process is to unlearn the misplaced concepts and bad habits we have developed. Section One of the book describes and contrasts the similarities and differences of American European and Japanese management and then describes the characteristics of the Integrated Company which has absorbed and perfected the best systems and philosophies from around the world. Anyone seeking to follow this lead needs to be able to distinguish the realities of these management systems from the myths. Section Two is built around a series of 13 detailed and scored questionnaires containing over 240 individual questions enabling the reader to assess every aspect of their business from management focus to the behaviours of the workforce against the Integrated Company model. Section Three the largest and most important section deals with integration addressing the practical implementation of the systems and philosophies in a clear logical and hands-on manner. As the name suggests the Integrated Company is a holistic model involving every aspect of the business. Nevertheless managing people - the unlimited potential - remains the most complex

GBP 115.00
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Psychology and Work Today

Psychology and Work Today

Psychology and Work Today 11th Edition is an exciting update of a well-loved textbook that introduces industrial and organizational psychology explaining how industrial-organizational psychologists make work and working better. This accessible and informative text explains how industrial-organizational psychologists help organizations hire the best people by designing tests and interviews that uncover the skills and abilities of applicants make work better by removing or reducing safety issues and sources of stress so that personnel are motivated and able to perform to their abilities and work with managers and leaders to be more effective at leading others. This book also describes how industrial-organizational psychologists work with organizations to embrace diversity in the workforce and celebrate the strengths that employees from many backgrounds bring to organizations. In addition this text includes how psychologists help organizations to design the physical work environment to best suit employees while other psychologists help organizations to market their products and services to consumers. This text covers both the essential and traditional industrial-organizational psychology topic areas such as job analysis employee selection and work motivation as well as topic areas that are important in workplaces today such as stress and well-being human factors and preparing for jobs of the future. The chapter on consumer psychology remains unique to this textbook. This new edition includes coverage of employable skills desired by hiring managers and executives; the ways the highly publicized replicability crisis has affected the science and practice of industrial-organizational psychology; online and mobile employment testing; diversity and inclusion throughout the workplace including microaggressions; preparing people and organizations for jobs of the future; incivility and harassment at work including abusive supervision; safety climate and employee health; and advertising on social media and video games. Including many illustrative examples of industrial-organizational psychology in real-world workplaces the 11th Edition is thoroughly updated to include the latest theory research and practice on each key topic. Each chapter features defined key terms a chapter outline a chapter summary review questions annotated additional reading and engaging Newsbreak sections. The book will be of interest to undergraduate students in introduction industrial-organizational psychology or psychology of work behaviour courses.

GBP 170.00
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