San Antonio College Library

The well-received first edition of the Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2007, 2 vols) established itself in the academic library market as a landmark reference that presents a thorough overview of this cross-disciplinary field for students, researchers, and professionals in the areas of psychology, business, management, and human resources. Nearly ten years later, SAGE presents a thorough revision that both updates current...

"An exploration of the ways in which people skills can be acquired and developed, this book discusses new career development tools, the role of professional commitment statements, psychological contracts, and how to work with difficult people. Each chapter elucidates the development of a specific skill and includes examples, sets benchmarks, and examines how the particular skill's relationship to the other skills presented in the book. The author...

Foster has worked as a writer and as a creative director in advertising agencies for 35 years. He proposes a new idea of leadership--"ideaship"--Arguing that leaders should create workplaces that are idea-friendly and encourage workers to be idea-prone. He offers an array of suggestions for personal, organizational, and strategic changes leaders can make to enhance employee creativity. Written in a non-academic, conversational style, with ideas based...

Provides seven principles for developing stronger relationships and fostering better communication skills in any working environment.

Provides a revealing study of psychopaths in the business world that examines the impact of destructive psychopathic behavior on a work environment, documenting a psychopath's patterns of skilled manipulation, deception, and abuse.

Formerly a speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore as well as an aide to Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Dan Pink went freelance to spark a right-brain revolution in the career marketplace. In this TEDTalk, the author of Drive and A Whole New Mind examines the puzzle of motivation - why it does or doesn't work. Viewers discover something that most social scientists know but many managers don't: traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think....