Product Description: The Psychology of Social Situations: Selected Readings is a collection of selected readings on the psychology of social situations. The reasons for the interest in social situations and why the social situation should be considered as a unit of psychological research are discussed, along with the nature of the social environment and major trends in social psychology...read more

Book by Adrian F. Furnham

Product Description: A comprehensive and explicitly psychological account of the Protestant Work Ethic. Includes an insight into the effects of the PWE in the workplace today, as well as its future in a changing world.

Product Description: Personality at Work examines the increasingly controversial role of individual differences in predicting and determining behaviour at work. It asks whether psychological tests measuring personality traits can predict behaviour at work, such as job satisfaction, productivity, as well as absenteeism and turnover...read more

Product Description: This revised version of The Economic Mind (1986) examines beliefs about the causes of poverty, wealth, and unemployment, and attitudes toward saving, gambling, and taxation, from a social psychological perspective, with expanded coverage of the changing economic minds of citizens in the new market economies of Central and Eastern Europe...read more

Product Description: Psychology has been the fastest growing student discipline in recent years and in Why Psychology? the unique essence, attraction and diversity of the subject is introduced for the uninitiated in an accessible and attractive way. It will be suitable for school students considering studying psychology in college or university, for those considering a change in career, for parents, careers officers and others who advise students of all ages...read more

Product Description: Economic Socialization is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on how children and adolescents come to understand the economic world. The citizen of contemporary Western societies, while often lacking formal training in economics, is a skilled user and interpreter of the economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: All in the Mind has been a successful but unusual textbook. It does not claim to be comprehensive: but it does cover important and currently controversial subjects critically and lucidly. Adrian Furnham's aim is to make the topic so interesting that the reader wants to read more, by providing the spark which leads to self-motivation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This superb introduction to the field of organizational psychology and organizational behaviour builds on the foundation of the highly successful first edition to provide up-to-date explanations of all the key topics in a clear, coherent and accessible style...read more

Product Description: Looking at the ideas, fads and peculiar practices of incompetent managers, this work is arranged in dictionary format with short entries covering everything from selection to firing.

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Product Description: Are there personality types characteristic of criminals? Is there a cancer-prone personality? Do extroverts have better sex than neurotics? This book looks at these questions and more, surveying the role of personality in many aspects of everyday social behavior...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is about the dark side of management. It is about incompetence rather than competence. It is about under--educated, misinformed, pusillanimous, egocentric and fundamentally deluded human beings who end up as managers causing misery and poverty to millions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book is about the identification, measurement and assessment of business potential among possible future or existing employees. It examines research on using biographical information about individuals to determine their potential in a specific organisational environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The children's and teenagers' market has become increasingly significant as young people have become more affluent and have an ever growing disposable income. Children as Consumers traces the stages of consumer development through which children pass and examines the key sources of influence upon young people's consumer socialisation. It examines: * the kinds of things young people consume * how they use their money * how they respond to different types of advertising * whether they need to be protected through special legislation and regulation * market research techniques that work well with young people. Children as Consumers will be useful to students of psychology, sociology, business and media studies, as well as professionals in advertising and marketing.

Product Description: A surprisingly large number of people claim to have worked for a manager who was clearly incompetent. Some people even believe, that in certain sectors, the incompetent outnumber the competent. This book looks at when, why and how managers become incompetent and what to do about it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book takes a very critical look at management fads and fashions and shows that many do not stand up to scrutiny. It is believed for example that coaching is successful. What is the evidence for this? Selection procedures at interviews result in the right candidate being selected...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This superb introduction to the field of organizational psychology and organizational behaviour builds on the foundation of the highly successful first edition to provide up-to-date explanations of all the key topics in a clear, coherent and accessible style...read more