Product Description: Personality and Intelligence at Work examines the increasingly controversial role of individual differences in predicting and determining behaviour at work. It combines approaches from organizational psychology and personality theory to critically examine the physical, psychological and psychoanalytic aspects of individual differences, and how they impact on the world of work...read more

Most managers are ignorant of, and not even very interested in, human behaviour. Yet good mangers are like good teachers, they understand the human condition and human needs. This book includes 100 'thought-pieces' on the world of management and sales.

Product Description: Shall we get together for dim sum? Tapas? Sushi? Meze? Many cultures, it seems, have the same concept: a range of dishes offered in small helpings, each with its individual taste, which taken as a whole make a substantial meal. This book, by a world-renowned business psychologist, offers 80 concise bites of management advice and wisdom...read more

Product Description: Bestselling author and psychologist, Adrian Furnham, takes a critical view of the jargon and fads in management contained in manifestos and mission statements and shows how these often obscure and mystify. He considers atmospherics, compulsory training, fundamentalist gurus, integrity tests, personality of organizations and uncertainty avoidance...read more

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: The Guide will include some 2500 entries, plus grants awarded under the heading of 'any subject'. It will include a practical introduction, a 'how-to' guide to achieving postgraduate funding and how to make a successful bid.

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of personality and intelligence, as well as covering other variables underlying academic and occupational performance. Personality and Intellectual Competence is a unique attempt to develop a comprehensive model to understand individual difference by relating major personality dimensions to cognitive ability measures, academic and job performance, and self-assessed abilities, as well as other traditional constructs such as leadership and creativity. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in personality, intelligence, and the prediction of future achievement in general.Personality and Intellectual Competence is an outstanding account of the relationship between major individual differences constructs. With its informative summary of the last century of research in the field, this book provides a robust and systematic theoretical background for understanding the psychological determinants of future achievement. The authors have sought to combine technical expertise with applied interests, making this a groundbreaking theoretical tool for anyone concerned with the scientific prediction of human performance.

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: 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: 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)

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: 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)

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)

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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)

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)

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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.