Developments in Work and Organizational Psychology : Implications for International Business

by Jackson; Shams

• ISBN13: 9780080444673
• ISBN10: 0080444679
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-28
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

Summary

The increasing global interdependency in economy and business transaction asserts the importance of documenting the most recent developments in global work and organizational behaviours, which are strongly influenced by the advancement of information technologies, virtual business transactions, multicultural business groups and expanded business settings across cultures. An in-depth analysis of some major areas of developments and developmental needs for some areas which have paramount influence on international work, organizational and business psychology is of both academic and practical importance. Our book aims to present thoughtful analyses of some major developments in work and organisational psychology, with a focus on international business and management. The book is expected to benefit students, researchers, practitioners and employers. We hope our relentless efforts to compile leading authors work will bring fresh ideas and thought-provoking issues on both theoretical and practical applications of emerging psychological knowledge in work and occupational psychology, to the international management and business. The book will have immense value to the global market, especially for international business and management courses, programme development and delivery on work and organizational psychology across cultures, inter and intra-cultural developmental programme on business transactions, and recent developmental issues in cross-national management and business. An eclectic approach is taken to showcase the chapters in this book. Each author is asked to invest his/hers valuable insights to write a selected chapter with examples from relevant research, utilizing scholarly and reflective arguments to cover the essence of the theme in a particular chapter. Each Chapter has adopted an easy going style to inform readers about the developments in a major area. The discussion in each chapter is assembled with author/s own research and management experiences, thus providing a real-life perspective, highlighting the importance of applying recent developmental issues to the future academic work in the international management and business field.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xi
Contributors	xiii
Preface	v
Acknowledgement	xix
Introduction: Developments in Work and Organizational Psychology: Implications for International Business	1	(266)
Manfusa Shams and Paul Jackson
1. Issues in Family Business: An International Perspective	5	(44)
Manfusa Shams and Åsa Björnberg
2. Teamworking in Organizations: Implications for Workplace Safety	49	(30)
Nick Turner, Sharon K. Parker and Helen M. Williams
3. Identity and Identification Processes in Mergers and Joint Ventures	79	(26)
Paul R. Jackson and Ingrid Dackert
4. Global Human Resource Management	105	(26)
Paul Sparrow
5. Ghost Workers: Implications of New Workforce Realities for Organizations and Their Workers	131	(32)
Judi McLean Parks and faye l. smith
6. Complexity Theory and the Management of Change	163	(22)
Pamela M. Yeow and Paul R. Jackson
7. Emotion at Work	185	(44)
T. Kiefer and R.B. Briner
8. Approaches in Business Coaching: Exploring Context-Specific and Cultural Issues	229	(16)
Manfusa Shams
9. Working in Glass Houses: Managing the Complex Organisation	245	(22)
Paul R. Jackson
10. Future of Work and Organisational Psychology: Implications for International Business	267	(10)
Manfusa Shams and Paul Jackson
Author Index	277	(14)
Subject Index	291