Michael A. West

Effective Teamwork provides all the tools necessary to help teams become more effective, including case studies, discussion questions, exercises and questionnaires. This practical text provides all the tools necessary to help teams become more effective, including case studies, discussion questions, exercises and questionnaires Drawing on psychological research, the text examines those factors which prevent and promote team effectiveness. The second edition includes new chapters on creating teams and on conflicts in teams. Now includes more material on team leadership, on the sorts of tasks that are best done by teams, and on the relationship between working in teams and mental health. Contains new sections on introducing teamwork, on virtual team working and team working across national boundaries, on emotions in teams, and on trust within and between teams.

Practical Lessons from Organizational Research

Effective Teamwork

In the past 20 years meditation has grown enormously in popularity across the world, practised both by the general public, as well as by an increasing number of psychologists within their daily clinical practice. Meditation is now used to treat a range of disorders, including, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, chronic pain, and addiction. In the past twenty years we have also learned much more about the underlying neural bases for meditation, and why it works. The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice explores the practice of meditation and mindfulness and presents accounts of the cognitive and emotional processes elicited during meditation practice. Written by researchers and practitioners with considerable experience in meditation practice and from different religious or philosophical perspectives, he book examines the evidence for the effects of meditation on emotional and physical well-being in therapeutic contexts and in applied settings. The areas covered include addictions, pain management, psychotherapy, physical health, neuroscience, and the application of meditation in school and workplace settings. Uniquely, the contributors also present accounts of their own personal experience of meditation practice including their history of practice, phenomenology, and the impact it has had on their lives. Drawing on evidence from both research and practice, this is a valuable synthesis of the ways in which meditation can profoundly enrich human experience.

Research and Practice

The Psychology of Meditation

Johanna Fullerton

Dimensions of Client-consultant Relationships

Management Consultancy

Monika Wastian

Isabell Braumandl

Lutz Rosenstiel

This book offers an essential manual for project managers, project management offices (PMO’s), trainers and consultants, addressing the psychological side of project management. Written by leading scholars in organizational psychology and by top experts in project management, it covers all major psychological topics that are key to project success. The book features dedicated chapters on leadership and teamwork, including virtual and intercultural cooperation, commitment and motivation of project teams. It adds a psychological perspective to personnel management, decision-making, information and knowledge management and communication in project work. Power, influencing tactics and other aspects of stakeholder management are covered, as well as project coaching, innovation and creativity, self-management and the management of conflicts, risks and crises.

A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Project Management

Applied Psychology for Project Managers

Dean Tjosvold

Ken G. Smith

To a lesser or greater extent, every organisation utilises the concept of working as a team for the overall good of the company. This title looks at specific issues posed by this concept, such as skill aquisition and the development of the team, and power in groups and organisations.

International Perspectives

The Essentials of Teamworking

Stephen A. Woods

From the challenges of sustainability to disruptive technology, work environments face unprecedented change and this major new textbook provides a cutting-edge introduction to how psychology and the world of work interact. Leading international academics, Steve Woods and Mike West, combine the latest research with truly global perspectives to leave students with a fully-rounded understanding of work psychology. Developed from wide-ranging lecturer feedback, three key themes of Ethics and Social Responsibility, Globalization and Cross-cultural Issues, and Environment and Sustainability are threaded throughout every chapter, while an attractive full-colour design and engaging pedagogical devices stimulate student interaction on this rapidly growing course. A full set of lecturer resources including Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint Slides and Test Bank make this the complete resource for modern work psychology courses.

The Psychology of Work and Organizations

Sustaining Wisdom, Humanity and Presence in Health and Social Care

Compassionate Leadership

King's Fund (London, England)

Regina Eckert

Katy Steward

William A. Pasmore

This report discusses the concept of collective leadership, in which every member of staff takes responsibility for the success of and organisation, and highlights the important of developing a leadership strategy that supports this approach.

Developing Collective Leadership for Health Care

Godfrey S. Beddard

The photophysical and photochemical properties of probes in biological and in model systems are topics of intense current research. The wavelength, intensity, time and polarisation dependence of fluorescence probes can provide information on properties as diverse as electric fields and changes in conformation and may be used in the formidable task of establishing structure-function relationships in proteins and cell membranes. The wide scope of interactions which can be studied by these fluorescent molecules is illustrated in the articles in this volume which are based on talks, although much extended and updated, given at a meeting on 'Fluorescence Probes in Proteins and Membranes' held in the Royal Institution in November 1979.

Fluorescent Probes

Lutz von Rosenstiel

Projektmanagement ist mehr als nur planen und organisieren: Personen führen, mit Konflikten und Krisen umgehen, kommunizieren, Meinungsbildung und Projektumfeld steuern, die Identifikation der Mitarbeiter fördern, Wissen und Kreativität managen. Worauf es dabei ankommt, erklären in dem Handbuch erfahrene Psychologen und Experten aus der Projektmanagement-Praxis: Ausgehend von typischen Problemen aus dem Projektalltag werden psychologische Hintergründe erläutert und Lösungen präsentiert. Mit Tipps zum Selbstmanagement, Fallbeispielen und Checklisten.

Ein Praxisbuch für die erfolgreiche Projektleitung

Angewandte Psychologie für das Projektmanagement

The team, rather than the individual, is increasingly seen as the building block of organizations and a key source of competitive advantage. Despite this, not enough is understood about how to build successful teams in modern organizations. The Essentials of Teamworking broadens this understanding by offering a selection of key chapters on teamwork from the International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working. This concise paperback edition reveals the complexity of teamwork and offers empirically based guidance on how teamwork can be effectively developed in modern organizations. Bringing together leading international scholars, The Essentials of Teamworking offers challenging perspectives on teamwork that will inform future research and practice. It is an invaluable resource for professionals, researchers and students alike.

In today's fast changing, hyper-competitive environment, teamwork and co-operative working enhance the organisation's adaptive capability. The team, rather than the individual, is increasingly seen as the building block of organisations and a key source of competitive advantage. The International Handbook of Organisational Teamwork and Co-operative Working provides a clear focus on the psychological and social processes that can stimulate successful cooperation and teamwork. Michael West, Dean Tjosvold and Ken Smith have brought together the world's leading authorities from a range of social science disciplines to provide a contemporary review of established and emerging perspectives. Throughout the book, processes that both facilitate and obstruct successful cooperation and teamwork are detailed, alongside guidance on best practice and methodology. The challenging and alternative perspectives presented will inform future research and practice. The result is a systematic and comprehensive synthesis of knowledge from a range of disciplines that will prove invaluable to professionals, researchers and students alike. * A systematic and coherent framework which organizes and structures the knowledge in this field * An outstanding collection of authoritative "high profile" authors * Challenging, alternative perspectives that will stimulate and enlighten future research and practice * Selective, updated bibliographies of key literatures support every chapter, a valuable resource for students, trainers and practitioners

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