 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | Creating a more productive and healthier workforce is a balancing act.
In a field as rapidly expanding and diverse as I/O psychology, it's not easy finding a book with just the right balance. Fortunately, Paul Spector's Fourth Edition of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice is up to the job.
A balance between cutting-edge topics and core material
This Fourth Edition covers both the core material as well as newly emerging topics and cutting-edge findings. Inside, you'll find 125 new references, as well as the latest thinking on team job analysis, drug testing, group problem solving, group diversity, cross-cultural issues in leadership, and more.
A balance between research and practice
The text's balanced presentation of research and practice equips you with an understanding of the whole field. This balanced approach helps you see the relationship between the science and application of I/O psychology. You'll find detailed summaries of current research, including international studies. In addition, cases introduce you to the wide array of settings and applied work that involve I/O psychologists.
A balance between employee performance and well-being
I/O psychology isn't just about how the organization can use psychology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its workforce; it's also about improving the health of the workforce. This Fourth Edition provides more balance between these two over-arching areas of the field.
Connect to online resources from the author's classroom.
The author's website features class notes from his I/O psychology course, practice exams, internet exercises, I/O career information, and links to I/O instructor and student resources. Go to www.wiley.com/college/spector for help presenting and studying the material in your textbook, and use these resources to go beyond the text. |
Average Customer Rating:   Easy read and very up to date I purchased this book for a class I was taking and was pleasantly surprised at how easy to read and to understand that it is. The book is not filled with terminology that has to be looked up all the time but does give valuable information in regard to the books contents. Good book This book was a required text for my IO Psych class and it is very informative. It helped me understand more about the subject Great, just as described The book arrived in exact condition as promised. The only thing was it took a little long to receive it. Over 8 days. Encourage Students To Think Critically About Key Issues "From Basic Principles To Professional Practice...
No other text provides a more complete introduction to the field of I/O psychology than the new Third Edition of Paul Spector's Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice....
The Third Edition comtinues to present clear, up-to-date coverage of core topics in I/O psychology, while including the most cutting-edge developments in the field, including technology, internationalization, skilled labor shortages, and occupational health psychology.
The author establishes connections between concepts throughout the text, making important concepts and findings from the field more understandable.
Chapters feature research summaries, case studies, and discussion questions, which
ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT KEY ISSUES.
New Features:
* New International Replication sections, which offer a summary of international studies that replicate or extend work done in the United States.
* Four new I/O Psychology in Practice cases.
* More than 180 new references, with more than 100 references from the year 2000 or later.
* New coverage of emerging topics, such as technology, internationalization, skilled labor shortages, and occupational health psychology......"
[from the book of the back cover] Good overview. This book presents a good overview of topics in Organizational and Industrial Psychology and was helpful to me in studying for a course. However, I am appalled and irritated with the amount of typographical errors in a book that cost me $100. There's an error on every other page! I've encountered at least five just this evening. The content is good but the proofreading needs a lot of attention. |  |
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