Human management is one of the key challenges of today's business world . The competences of managers and the rights of employees are two equally important aspects of this dynamic process . In ...today's times , organizational psychology provides valuable insights that help to understand the mechanisms that govern the relationships between managers and the ones who are managed . In this article , we will focus on the role of manager's competences and employees ' rights incl the context of people management, analyzing them from a psychological perspective .The ultimate goal of article is to provide readers with knowledge and tools that will help them better understand psychological aspects of people management, development their managerial competences and create a more effective and friendly working environment for themselves and theirs employees .
Work Engagement Bakker, Arnold B; Leiter, Michael P
2010, 20100405, 2010-03-12, 2010-04-05
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This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work.
The book begins by defining work ...engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far reaching implications for work-life. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work. The book considers the implications of work engagement for both the individual employee and the organization as a whole. To address readers’ practical questions, the book provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques.
Based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world, this volume brings together the best knowledge available on work engagement, and will be of great use to academic researchers, upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.
Leiter, Bakker, Work Engagement: State of the Art. Schaufeli, Bakker, Defining and Measuring Work Engagement: Bringing Clarity to the Concept. Sonnentag, Dormann, Demerouti, Not All Days are Created Equal: The Concept of State Work Engagement. Taris, Schaufeli, Shimazu, The Push and Pull of Work: The Differences between Workaholism and Work Engagement. Sweetman, Lutgans, The Power of Positive Psychology: Psychological Capital and Work Engagement. Shirom, Feeling Energetic at Work: On Vigor's Antecendents. Hakanen, Roodt, Using the Job-Demands-Resources Model to Predict Engagement: Analysing a Conceptual Model. Halbesleben, A Meta-analysis of Work Engagement: Relationships with Burnout, Demands, Resources and Consequences. Salanova, Schaufeli, Xanthopoulou, Bakker, The Gain Spiral of Resources and Work Engagement: Sustaining a Positive Worklife. Spreitzer, Lam, Fritz, Engagement and Human Thriving: Complementary Perspectives on Energy and Connections to Work. Demerouti, Cropanzano, From Thought to Action: Employee Work Engagement And Job Performance. Leiter, Maslach, Building Engagement: The Design and Evaluation of Interventions. Bakker, Leiter, Where To Go From Here: Integration and Future Research on Work Engagement.
"This volume is outstanding and absolutely innovative. The recent evolution in the field calls for the publication of a thorough and complete overview, as offered in this volume. This book has the potential to become a landmark text in this new and increasingly important field." - Hans De Witte, Research Group Work, Organisational and Personnel Psychology, Department of Pychology, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
"Work Engagement: A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research provides a comprehensive examination of the work engagement construct. It provides enough background information to serve as an advance primer to the topic area. Yet it also provides enough novel empirical work to be of interest to those already familiar with the topic. I believe it would be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the systematic study and development of work engagement." - David J. Woehr, Professor of Management, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
"The editors have included the latest thinking and research findings in this collection. This volume is timely, research based, links well with emerging concepts in positive psychology, includes new concepts such as state work engagement and vigor, and offers practical applications for those committed to making workplaces more effective. A must read for anyone interested in the current state of our understanding of work engagement" – Ronald J. Burke, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Sculick School of Business, York University, Canada
"This is an excellent collection of chapters on the topic of work engagement, written by the European and US leaders in the area. It offers thoughtful and fascinating perspectives on a topic of great interest to all who care about creating or working in healthy workplaces. Overall, this book provides an excellent review of knowledge on the fundamental topic of work engagement ." – Michael West, Aston Business School, UK
Arnold B. Bakker is full professor at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include positive organizational behavior (e.g., flow and engagement at work, performance), burnout, crossover of work-related emotions, and serious games on organizational phenomena.
Michael P. Leiter is Canada Research Chair in Organizational Health and Professor of Psychology at Acadia University and Director of the Center for Organizational Research & Development that applies high quality research methods to human resource issues. He is actively involved as a consultant on occupational issues in Canada, the USA, and Europe.
Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Its Nature, Antecedents, and Consequences examines the vast amount of work that has been done on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in recent years as it ...has increasingly evoked interest among researchers in organizational psychology. No doubt some of this interest can be attributed to the long-held intuitive sense that job satisfaction matters. Authors Dennis W. Organ, Philip M. Podsakoff, and Scott B. MacKenzie offer conceptual insight as they build upon the various works that have been done on the subject and seek to update the record about OCB.
An essential read for anyone working today, this book focuses on agile resilience, exploring how resilience can be learned, chosen, developed and adapted to help you cope with the range of ...circumstances and experiences you may face at work, whether that's at home, in an office or any other workspace.
Volume one of a four volume set. This second edition has been extensively rewritten and should be of interest to both practitioners and students of organizational psychology. The discipline has seen ...many changes since the original edition was.
Purpose. In this article, we continue to analyze the actual problem of modern organizations, which is associated with changing forms of professionalism and the place of a professional in the ...organization. In conditions of uncertainty and socio-economic changes, the so-called universal professionals are of increasing interest, who demonstrate a focus on a wide range of tasks they solve and activities they perform. Findings. It is shown that specialists of a wide profile are increasingly indemand today in organizations and society. They are the most important resource for the organization’s adaptation to changing external and internal conditions. We look at the reasons why organizations need generalist professionals. The problems caused by the peculiarities of their involvement in solving various goals of the organization and different career prospects are highlighted. Various career tracksand career development directions of such employees in organizations are shown. Based on the analysis, the conditions under which generalists build a successful career and chances for employment are highlighted.
This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of what is now the major way of trying to understand the employment relationship — the concept of the psychological contract. ...Written contracts often specify very little in terms of the important details about what we are prepared to do for our employer and what we want back in return. The psychological contract considers these implicit or unwritten aspects of the employment relationship. What do employees really expect from work? What happens when the contract, or ‘the deal’, with their employer is broken? How well does the psychological contract help us understand what happens at work between an employee and their employer? Is this idea of practical value in managing employees? How can our understanding of this important concept be developed in the future? Starting with a history of the concept, from its emergence in the 1960s through to it finding wider acceptance in the 1990s, the book traces the conflicting and changing definitions of the psychological contract. The shifting meaning of the concept allows possible methodological and conceptual weaknesses of the psychological contract to be explored, such as the conceptual emphasis on process within the employment relationship, which has so far been neglected by researchers. The authors start to address this issue by considering whether employees and employers can use what is known about the psychological contract to better manage the employment relationship.
