Managerial Psychology

by Yochanan Altman

• ISBN13: 9781412944908
• ISBN10: 1412944902
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-29
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Compiled by three leading authorities on managerial psychology, this collection of seminal works in the field delineates the boundaries of a vibrant and multidisplinary subject area. With benchmark and cutting-edge articles, this collection is the first of its kind to draw together the work of leading academic writers in managerial psychology. Its audience will bridge two major academic communities: management scholars and psychology scholars. Volume One: Individual Perspectives: The psychology of management and managing - leadership, personality, communication, teams (groups), careers, influencing and decision making, sense making, organizational behaviour Volume Two: Group and Meso Level Perspective: Managing the new workplace: psychological correlates - personality, well-being (stress, work life balance), comparative (cross cultural), gender and diversity, identity, personel development Volume Three: Organizational and Macro Level Perspectives: Managerial Psychology: theory and applications -epistemologies and methodologies, psychoanalysis, cognitive processes, psycholinguistics

Table of Contents

Individual Perspectives Motivation & Personality Emotional intelligence as a moderator of emotional and behavioral reactions to job insecurity

Goal setting and task performance

Personality and culture revisited: Linking traits and dimensions of culture

On the folly of Rewarding A while Hoping for B

Leadership Reinventing leadership: A radical, social psychological approach

Values, emotions, and authenticity: Will the real leader please stand up?

Visionary Leadership and Strategic Management

Self-leadership: Toward an expanded theory of self-influence processes in organizations

The motivational effects of charismatic leadership: A self-concept based theory

Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?

Psychological contract and careers Back to Square Zero: The Post-Corporate Career

Psychological contracts in employment

Crafting a Job: Employees as Active Crafters of Their Work

Toward strategic management for fast track executives

Group and Meso Level Perspectives Interactions in groups and teams Time and transition in work teams: Toward a new model of group development

A Case-Study in the Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence against Anxiety: A Report on a Study of the Nursing Service of a General Hospital

Interpersonal dynamics in a simulated prison

Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams

Groupthink

Where's the Power in Empowerment? Answers from Follett and Clegg

Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgments

'Banana Time': Job satisfaction and informal interaction

Some conditions of obedience and disobedience to authority

Tightening the iron cage: Concertive control in self-managing teams

An intergroup perspective on individual behavior

The new forms of control

Competition, cooperation and learning in work settings Trust and mistrust in organizations: An exploration using an organizational justice framework

The three cultures of management: Implications for organizational learning

Principles of Socio-Technical Design

Learning, Leadership, Teams: Corporate Learning and Organisational Change

Organizational and Macro Level Perspectives Gender and diversity Gender, Race, and Class in Organizational Contexts

Rules, Sensemaking, Formative Contexts and Discourse in the Gendering of Organizational Culture

The glass cliff: exploring the dynamics surrounding the appointment of women to precarious leadership positions

Searching for Common Threads: Understanding the Multiple Effects of Diversity in Organizational Groups

Well-being & positive psychology vs. stress & distress

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