Now in its 23rd year, the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology has attracted contributions from leading researchers and produced many citation classics. Each volume is a state-of-the-art overview of topics spanning the full spectrum of I/O psychology and 2008 is no exception. Areas covered include leadership development, the psychology of careers, employee recruitment, health promotion in the workplace, and politics at work. Each chapter is supported by a valuable bibliography. For advanced students, academics, researchers and professionals this remains the most current and authoritative guide to new developments and established knowledge in the field.
Table of Content
About the Editors.
Contributors.
Editorial Foreword.
1. The Psychology of Careers in Industrial and Organizational
Settings: A Critical but Appreciative Analysis (John Arnold and
Laurie Cohen)
2. Employee recruitment: Current Knowledge and Directions for
Future research (James A. Breaugh, Therese H. Macan, and Dana M.
Grambow)
3. Age and Learning in Organizations (Margaret E. Beier)
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Politics and Politicians at
Work (Jo Silvester)
5. Building Better Workplaces through Individual Perspective
taking: A Fresh Look at a Fundamental Human Process (Sharon K.
Parker, Paul W.B. Atkins, and Carolyn M. Axtell)
6. The Dawning of a New Era for Genuine Leadership Development
(Bruce J. Avolio and Adrian Chan)
7. Health Protection and Promoting in the Workplace: A review
and Application of Vale and Regulatory Focus Perspectives (Lois E.
Tetrick and Michael T. Ford)
8. Personality as a Predictor of Work-Related behavior and
Performance: Recent Advances and Directions for Future Research
(Giles St. J. Burch and Neil Anderson)
Index.
Contents of Previous Volumes.
About the author
Gerard P. Hodgkinson Professor of Organizational Behaviour
and Strategic Management and Director of the Centre for
Organizational Strategy, Learning and Change (COSLAC) at the
University of Leeds, UK. He earned his BA, MSc and Ph D degrees at
Wolver hampton Polytechnic and the Universities of Hull and
Sheffield, respectively. He has authored or co-authored three books
and over 50 scholarly journal articles and chapters on topics of
relevance to the field of industrial and organizational psychology.
In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of both the British Psychological
Society and the British Academy of Management, in recognition of
his pioneering contribution to the psychology of strategic
management as an emergent field of study. In recent years this and
related work on managerial and organizational cognition has been
taken forward through the award of a Fellow ship of the Advanced
Institute of Management (AIM) Research, the UK’s research
initiative on management funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC). From 1999 to 2006 Gerard was the Editor-in-Chief
of the British Journal of Management and currently serves on the
Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of
Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of
Organizational Behavior and Organizational Science. A practising
chartered occupational psychologist, he has conducted numerous
consultancy assignments for leading private and public-sector
organizations. Further information about Gerard and his work can be
found at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lubs/coslac/ and href=’http://www.aimresearch.org/’>http://www.aimresearch.org.
J. Kevin Ford is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan
Sate University. H is major research interest involve improving
training effectiveness through efforts to advance our understanding
of training needs assessment, design, evaluation and transfer. he
also concentrates on understanding change dynamics n organizational
development efforts and building continuous learning and
improvement orientations within organizations. He has published
over 50 articles and chapters and four books relevant to industrial
and organizational psychology. Currently he serves on the editorial
boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Human Performance.
He is an active consultant with private industry and the public
sector on training, leadership and organizational change issues.
Kevin is a Fellow of the American Psycho9logical Association
and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. he
received his BS in psychology from the University of Maryland and
his MA and Ph D in psychology from the Ohio State University.
Further information about Kevin and his research and consulting
activities can be found at http://www.io.psy.msu.edu/jkf.
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