Why Our Current Approach to Worker Burnout is Failing, and How to Fix It
Rethinking Employee Resilience is a playbook for reducing burnout and fostering worker resilience in organizations of all kinds. Conventional wisdom holds that employee burnout is an individual issue, related to personal problems of mental health and misalignment. In this book, clinical psychologist Dr. Dan Pelton argues that employee burnout ......
Draws on up-to-date psychology and management research to show how to promote the well-being of people in organizations by playing to strengths, leading with compassion and putting people first.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Improving Police Officer Wellness, Ethics, and Resilience
Offers practical strategies for police officers to use on- and off-duty to improve wellness, strengthen ethical commitments, and boost resilience. The book demonstrates a research-based approach to dealing with the challenges faced in law enforcement, and provides personal and professional steps to take on-duty and off-duty to optimize your ......
Organisational Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies critically reflects upon 14 studies by researchers such as Gilbreth, French and Raven, Greenberg, and Schein, that have long been considered foundational. Written and edited by leading scholars, this book invites you to think about the limitations of the classic studies, put theory into practice, and consider, in-depth, the lasting impact of these key studies on the field today. Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. Niklas K. Steffens is Director of the Centre for Business and Organisational Psychology and Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland. Floor Rink is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Groningen. Michelle K. Ryan is the inaugural Director of the Global Institute of Women's Leadership, and Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology at The Australian National University.
The Total Worker Health program targets policies, programs, and practices that address worker safety and health in the physical and organisational work environment, as well as outside the workplace. Chapters in this book cover organisational approaches for program implementation, and offer examples of applications for diverse worker populations.
The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) Approach
Provides the practitioner with a way of thinking about both the relationship between one's inner experiences and high-level human performance, and the ways that professionals can influence that relationship. This work includes the theoretical, empirical, and practical tools necessary for using the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment program.
Career and work contribute significantly to personal and life satisfaction-and, when they are problematic, to personal unhappiness and stress. In this comprehensive career assessment book, Rodney L. Lowman addresses the three major areas that matter the most for understanding and helping people with their career choices: occupational ......
Psychology in Organizations, First edition of Alex Haslam's highly influential text provided a new understanding of organizational behaviour - that all aspects of organizational life are affected by people's social ties and group affiliations. Given its thought-provoking and ground-breaking insight into the way organizational behaviour is thought ......
