Personnel Psychology and Human Resources Management A Reader for Students and Practitioners
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Ivan Robertson is a professor and Pro-Vice Chancellor at UMIST in the UK. He is also the Director of the SHL/UMIST Research Centre in Work and Organisational Psychology.
Militza Callinan is a lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management in the Management Division at Leeds University Business School.
"One strength of these books is their international focus ... the collection includes many contributions on cutting-edge issues." (THES, 29 March 2002)
* Topic focussed, 'best of' collections on a specific themeconveniently incorporated into one book
* Ideal for graduate study, dissertations, projects, seminars
This volume covers key topics at the interface of human resourcemanagement (HRM) and Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Thechapters focus on the individual and are grouped into two sections:Personnel Psychology covering topics such as personnel selection,assessment, 360 degree feedback, assessment centres and cognitiveability testing and HRM which considers wider issues, includinglearning strategies, training, absence, turnover, commitment andthe psychological contract.
Contributors.
Introduction.
PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY.
Personnel Selection Methods (J. Salgado).
International Uses of Selection Methods (S. Newell & C.Tansley).
Understanding the Assessment Center Process: Where Are We Now? (F.Lievens & R. Klimoski).
Multi-Source Feedback Systems: A Research Perspective (C. Fletcher& C. Baldry).
General Cognitive Ability and Occupational Performance (M. Ree& T. Caretta).
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.
Learning Strategies and Occupational Training (P. Warr & C.Allan).
Contemporary Research on Absence from Work: Correlates, Causes andConsequences (G. Johns).
Organizational Commitment (J. Meyer).
Turnover (C. Maertz & M. Campion).
Psychological Contracts: Employee Relations For The Twenty-FirstCentury? (L. Millward & P. Brewerton).
Subject Index.
The chapters in this volume focus on the individual and are grouped into two sections: personnel psychology and human resource management. Personnel psychology includes personnel selection, assessment, 360 degree feedback, assessment centres and cognitive ability testing. Human resource management considers wider issues, including learning strategies, training, absence, turnover, commitment and the psychological contract.
Written by leading scholars with international reputations in their fields, this collection provides a high quality review that will be invaluable to researchers and practitioners alike.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Ivan Robertson is a professor and Pro-Vice Chancellor at UMIST in the UK. He is also the Director of the SHL/UMIST Research Centre in Work and Organisational Psychology.
Militza Callinan is a lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management in the Management Division at Leeds University Business School.