Book Description
Work in the 21st Century is the highly regarded, and most current and engaging, text for the industrial and organizational psychology course. Combining leading research, consulting, and teaching expertise, Frank Landy and Jeff Conte provide students with up-to-date examples and cases that link current research and theory to practical issues in the workplace. Students will gain familiarity with I-O psychology concepts and become critical evaluators of contemporary issues and research, allowing their education to carry them well past the conclusion of the course.A number of themes recur throughout the text to underscore the multifaceted nature of work including the increase in cross-cultural and multinational work, the diversification of workforces, the increased importance of teams, and the increased complexity of the technical and organizational aspects of work.Key features:Modular approach: contains self-contained sections within chapters, for maximum teaching flexibilityCutting-edge topics and research coverage: includes the Five Factor Theory of Personality, the Big Eight theory of competencies, emotional intelligence, culture and emotions, genetics and job satisfaction, achieving balance between work and non-work, stress and violence, measuring motivation, integrity testing, entrepreneurship, computer-based assessment, male vs. female leaders, cross-cultural teams, bullying, and moreEmphasis on critical thinking: supplementary critical thinking questions present situations and ask students to apply the principles and concepts they have learned in that sectionCase studies and boxes: cases provide concrete examples of the issues involved in work and behavior in various applied settingsClear, articulate explanations: concise prose and interesting examples make the book accessible to a wide range of studentsAncillaries: these include Instructor 's Manual, Test Bank, Study Guide, PowerPoint slides, and a dedicated website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/landyconte2e
Customer Reviews:
Work in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Industrial & Organizational Psychology.......2007-05-13
Great book. Very informative--at least as part of a class--with interesting side-line items as well.
21 Century an intro to industrial and organizational psychology.......2005-09-26
sent in good amount of time and book in good condition
Book Description
Inviting and comprehensive, this introduction to industrial/organizational psychology emphasizes the connections between theory and practice across the full spectrum of personnel issues, worker issues, work group and organizational issues, and work environment issues. Coverage of career information, employee-centered issues, and cutting-edge research make the book ideal for those considering a career in the field. Research Methods in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Statistical Analysis of Research Data. PERSONNEL ISSUES. Job Analysis. Employee Selection. Employee Training and Development. Evaluating Employee Performance. WORKER ISSUES. Motivation. Job Satisfaction, Work Attendance, and Quality of Work Life. Worker Stress. WORK GROUP AND ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES. Communication in the Work Place. Group Processes in Work Organizations. Leadership. Influence, Power, and Politics. Organizational Structure, Culture, and Development. WORK ENVIRONMENT ISSUES. Human Factors in Work Design. Work Conditions and Work Safety. For anyone wanting an overview of the field of industrial/organizational psychology, especially as a career.
Customer Reviews:
not bad at all.......2005-02-22
This book is very good, but not for this topic. I'm really disappointed from this brand of sience.
Book Description
This text successfully integrates statistics and research methods, by placing statistics in the context of research to help students grasp both topics more clearly. Discussions include all major descriptive and experimental methods, as well as primary and secondary statistical procedures.
Certain chapters include a new section, APA Format for Statistical Notation, to help students report findings according to APA guidelines. Pedagogy includes restructured chapter-opening learning goals, a new end-of-chapter Review Questions section, and an increased number of Practice Problems.
Customer Reviews:
It serves the purpose........2003-04-08
In the past I have been quite critical regarding the quality of this book. I had found it tedious, overly descriptive, and lacking of significant examples.
In the meanwhile I have been using this book consistently because I needed information and verifications regarding the design of a challenging study. Well, I had to change my mind regarding my doubts and skepticism, and now I feel that I must vote in favor of the book.
Research is not exactly a walk on the beach, and this is certainly not a "beach" book. Research requires lots of patience, and very systematic people willing to devote much of their time for the sake of science. This book should be approached in a similar fashion, and with the intent and will to learn. If the reader establishes such a relation with this textbook, she/he will find most of her/his questions answered.
Aside the above praises, the author should consider to add practical examples to theory. This suggestion could be of great help to students willing to stay focused on a stimulating problem, and without ending up lost somewhere in the middle of the path.
Understanding Research Methods and Statistics.......2000-11-14
I never thought that I would understand statistics, but this book proved me wrong! The explanations were very detailed and tailored for people who have not previously taken a statistics course. I highly recommend this book, especially for those in the psychology field...
overkill.......2000-02-14
The material is good, but the author get to involved to soon in the text. It is a must to sort through what information you need and the excess! I do not think that this is a good text for a student new to statistics. Examples are poor and brief.
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Introducing the field of counseling in a complex, multicultural society, this text is based on a phenomenological, psychosocial, life-span developmental approach, whereby counselors help persons work through situational, developmental transitions and conflicts within a multicultural, social context. Ageism. Productive aging. Grief. Loss. Intergenerational issues. Needs of caretakers. Feminist approaches. Life-span cognitive development. Emotional intelligence. Spiritual development. Substance abuse clients. Joint school-community crises prevention and intervention programs. Depression. Addictions. Theories and techniques. Practice and process. Appropriate as an introduction to counseling.
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We make choices all the time - about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational? What guides our own choices, especially in cases where we don't have complete information about the outcomes? What strategies should be applied in making decisions which affect a lot of people, as in the case of government policy? This book explores what it means to be rational in all these contexts. It introduces ideas from economics, philosophy, and other areas, showing how the theory applies to decisions in everyday life, and to particular situations such as gambling and the allocation of resources.
Customer Reviews:
An introduction, but not for the real novice.......2005-07-07
"Short and to the point" describes the book perfectly, but what is the point? More specifically, to whom is it introducing the subject.
I found the book a good description of the logic behind choice theory; on what are the numerous different bases on which we can build a "theory" of choice; and where this can lead. From the simplest ideas of choice we are led to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and so can see that "rational" choices may not satisfy everyone in a democracy - a result that needs to be known at all levels of a polity.
However it's supposed to be an introduction. If you're someone not used to using logic there are too many slippery areas where you'll get lost, even though the author tries to ground the work in reality - sometimes successfully, sometimes not. And for someone who wants to see more of the practical implications it is a pity that these are not explicated more.
This book will suit some as an introduction, but not all.
Clear but overly technical in its focus.......2004-06-03
I bought this book on impulse when I was also buying Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction on a recommendation. I'm afraid the moral I now take from this story was "trust recommendations, not your impulses." This was a frustrating book.
I was hoping this book would give me a clear non-technical explanation of the interesting or surprising implications in choice theory. Instead, it gave a clear non-technical explanation of the technical content of choice theory. It seemed indifferent to interpreting what this content meant in practical or non-technical terms.
I think this would be a good book for someone trying to understand the persnickety logical foundations of choice theory but a bad one for someone hoping to understand something about, well, choice and decision-making.
For instance, chapter 2 is almost 20 pages, a fair bit in a book of 120 pages. Yet it devotes itself almost exclusively to explaining the relation between preference functions, cardinal utilities, and ordinal utilities. It discusses the formal conditions necessary for different kinds of preference relations and utilities to be logically equivalent, and the difference between defined terms like "rationality" and "reasonableness".
This is rather dry material, and there was virtually no word on whether these formal conditions were accurate descriptions of people's behavior, or whether we should wish they were. I would have loved to hear a discussion of their intuitive meaning and the extent of their relevance. Are preferences transitive? Is the expansion condition consistent, for instance, with the way people respond to prices through framing effects? I honestly don't know, and I'm annoyed the book was totally silent on these questions. Maybe the criticisms of the formalism of rational decision making are all called "behavioral economics," but it seems like material relevant to a short non-technical introduction.
This pattern persisted in the other chapters, which covered rationality under different forms of uncertainty, risk aversion, strategic behavior in conflict & cooperation, and voting theory.
Another peeve of mine was how the author repeatedly mentioned how some basic definition or another could not be used to justify redistributive taxation. It seemed like he had an axe to grind, since the comment was usually a non sequitur, and since he never went on to discuss the genuine technical issues that I would suppose are involved (inter-subjective utility comparison, the relation between risk appetites and utility schedules, etc.). Frankly, if choice theory is the welter of arbitrary and farflung definitions that the book presents it as being, I wonder that it could be used to justify any political opinion at all!
As I said, the book may a good summary of the technical foundations of choice theory but it offered little insight for understanding human choice or decision-making in a formalized but intuitive way, which is thing thing I wanted. For all I know, the book is comprehensive and accurate, and my response only reveals my own my own prejudices about the field itself.
Customer Reviews:
Confusing.......2007-01-18
As I started to read this book the introduction seemed to be a conclusion summing up all the chapters to come. Entering into the first chapter left me frustrated because it also cited from the other chapters. I feel that I should be reading this book backwards, perhaps then I wouldn't be so confused. Perhaps if you can get through the first part of this book it gets better, good luck.
Book Description
In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full-time day trader. Elvin presents a Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence (the MOT) as well as the concepts of analysis and refutation, the paramouncy principle, and self-sabotaging behaviours such as the Santa Claus syndrome and Bohica effect.
Areas covered include:
- Emotions - are they functional or disabling? How do the mechanisms of fear, greed and panic work?
- Motivation and perception - how do belief paradigms affect perception and performance?
- What perceptual errors influence decisions to the trader's detriment?
- Information processing and risk assessment - how does information overload affect Stress How does stress affect investment decisions?
- Technological and mathematical anxiety - why do we avoid learning the skills we most need? What levels of ability are required?
- Can psychological and biological theories assist in our understanding of investors' performance?
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"In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full-time day trader. Elvin presents a Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence (the MOT) as well as the concepts of analysis and refutation, the paramouncy principle, and self-sabotaging behaviours such as the Santa Claus syndrome and Bohica effect.
Areas covered include:
- Emotions - are they functional or disabling? How do the mechanisms of fear, greed and panic work?
- Motivation and perception - how do belief paradigms affect perception and performance?
- What perceptual errors influence decisions to the trader's detriment?
- Information processing and risk assessment - how does information overload affect Stress How does stress affect investment decisions?
- Technological and mathematical anxiety - why do we avoid learning the skills we most need? What levels of ability are required?
- Can psychological and biological theories assist in our understanding of investors' performance?
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Customer Reviews:
Trading and Emotional IQ.......2005-08-17
This is the first 'trading' book I've read that explicitly offers advice on suicide. Here is the final sentence of the last chapter, the one on depression and suicide: "...seek out a counselor, to find your way to God as you understand Him, or whatever it is that you need to do to end your pain, loneliness, and hopelessness. If you can manage this, and do something very small every day, I know you will get through your period of loss, and I will feel tremendously grateful for having shared some of your experience with you through this book."
This is not a book on 'how to trade'. Loosely, the book is a psychologist's autobiographical 5 years in the trading pit (ok, in front of a trading screen). The first section covers Dr. Elvin's frustrations with finding a teacher and the second lightly touches on trading techniques. This is all rather flimsy material, but represents a fair picture of the pitfalls facing anyone trying to 'learn' trading by sitting in classes.
The 3rd section on 'perceptual bias' is very good, and obviously takes advantage of Dr. Ervin's 'real job', clinical psychology. There is brief but concise descriptions of the 'primacy error' (we are unduly influenced by experiences immediately prior to a decision), the 'availability error' (we tend to take the easy way out) and the 'Halo effect' (a good trait blinds us to the bad). Other topics include the 'misplaced consistency theory, the 'sunk cost error', 'prospect theory', 'self-deception bias', 'representativeness bias', and 'sampling bias' (law of small numbers). As an answer to this, Dr. Elvin briefly argues against the Neo-Platonic efforts to exclude emotion from decision making, and recommends assessing one's Emotional IQ with a view to improve it. A few well placed emotional disasters pulled from the author's trading experiences illustrate the points nicely.
Concluding that emotional issues are the primary blame for trading disasters, the 4th section covers the delights of Zen meditation and taking on the self-image of a warrior-trader. The book suggests this is the path the author finally chose. We don't end here, though. Instead, Dr. Elvin launches into a fascinating discussion suicide, the suicides of famous traders and gambling addiction, again with personal insights to his own dark moments.
All of these materials are covered in more detail elsewhere, but Dr. Elvin's consistent reference to his own trading experiences provide a relevance missing in more academic work. The summary chapter suggests the author was trying to write a model of trading competence. Using this goal as a measure, the author has failed to deliver. The offered measures of competence seem designed for accountants. The messy comments on assessing one's emotional IQ are hard to package in terms of competence. The juxtaposition of brave 'warrior trader' and 'suicidal trader' illusions speak to the difficulty of the subject. I suspect the author recommends we meditate on these issues.
Get the book, read and apply it - worth the effort.......2005-02-17
I don't normally write reviews, but I think that this is a great book. Serious traders should consider adding this to their library of reference material.
I have a trading library that contains most of the classic trading books, including more than a dozen on trading psychology. The key is to find the "gems" in each one and figure out how to apply them in our own personal style of trading.
This book is unique in three ways:
1. It pulls together some of the "gems" from the classics so the information is more accessible in one place.
2. The author lays down an excellent framework (structure) for being a successful trader - not just today, but a broad set of integrated skills the must be mastered & balanced. This is actually a interrelated set of "competencies" that the author outlines.
3. A "Model of Trading" is identified at a high level, and presented in a strategic and tactical flow chart. Some text supports the flow charts.
There is no "one book" that covers it all, but applying the information in this book would help the individual trader develop his trading career and bring it to a more professional level.
Another view.......2004-11-17
Well, I don't know if "fascinating" is the word I'd choose for this book, though I'm not entirely sure that the word "book" is appropriate to describe it either.
I'm sure Elvin is a very nice person and I applaud him for the journey he undertook to achieve trading competence, assuming that he ever did (achieve trading competence). However, this is not so much a book as a very long -- and I mean VERY long -- research paper. In effect, Elvin provides the glue to hold together not only the views of others but also sometimes lengthy passages from their books. Rather than contribute anything new to the literature, he provides what is called a "review of the literature", and that review is somewhat shallow. For example, the facility with which he assumes the value of certain elements, such as Fibonacci, even though there is no evidence that they have any demonstrable value at all, toots "new trader", giving the book a sort of What I Learned During My Summer Vacation After Being Screwed By A Guru quality.
In a way, it reminds me of those compilations one sees advertised on late-night television: a few minutes of one movement from some symphony, a sampling of an aria from some opera. If this style encourages one to investigate the source material, all to the good. But at $45 ($70 MSRP), it's a bit steep for a sampler.
I suggest, therefore, that dear reader get this book from the library first in order to find out if it's truly what he wants. It may instead provide leads to those books which might actually benefit the reader in the way he had in mind when he sought out the book in the first place.
Commodity, stock and options traders need this book.......2004-09-03
Financial Risk Taking by M. Elvin contains a fascinating blend of practical trading ideas from the trading masters and psychological studies from the academic world. It covers more than the title implies and discusses trading methods, trading as a business, trading standards and trading psychology. Dr. Elvin is himself a trader, clinical psychologist and business person whose illustrations on trading covers his own errors as well as his developing wisdom as a trader. Recommended for traders at any level, from novice to advanced. If you need a first book on trading or a last book on trading, this is it.
Book Description
Multiple attribute decision making (MADM) procedures, a process for making preference decisions over the available alternatives which are characterized by multiple (usually conflicting) attributes are useful for improving decision making in a wide range of circumstances--from professional to managerial to political. Using real-world case examples, the authors introduce the reader to normative (for optimal decisions) MADM models. Beginning in chapter 2 with and introductions to the various attributes in a decision, the authors explore how MADM methods can be used for descriptive purposes to model the existing decision-making process, noncompensatory and scoring methods, accommodation of soft data, construction of a multiple decision support system, and the validity of methods. The authors also include a presentation of the advanced procedures of TOPSIS and ELECTRE. This manual offers social scientists an encapsulated view of MADM methods, their characteristics, applicability, and the methods for solving MADM problems.
Customer Reviews:
A very useful summary of leading MADM methods........1997-08-04
Yoon and Hwang have prepared, within 69 pages, a fine summary of the current MADM methods complete with step-by-step sample calculations. They present several methods which encompass the major classes of MADM models. These include the Dominance method, Maximin, Maximax, Conjunctive method, Disjunctive method, Lexicographic method, Elimination by Aspect, Simple Additive Weighting, Weighted Product, TOPSIS, ELECTRE, Median Ranking Method, and AHP. If you need a quick guide to MADM, this is it
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Leadership makes a difference. Try naming one significant movement that wandered leaderless into the history books. And leadership matters most in times of uncertainty. The study of leadership is the study of how men and women guide us through adversity, uncertainty, hardship, disruption, transformation, transition, recovery, and new beginnings. Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. Given the daunting challenges we face today, the potential for greatness is phenomenal.
People matter. Even in today's wired world, it's not the web of technology but the web of people that matters most. Leaders can't do it alone. Success in any project, organization, enterprise and in life has been, is now, and will continue to be a function of how well people work and engage with each other. Success in leadership depends on your capacity to build and sustain collaborative human relationships.
You matter. People who become leaders don't always seek the challenges they face. Challenges also seek leaders. It's not so important whether you find the challenges or they find you. What is important are the choices you make when stuff happens. The next time you say to yourself, "Why don't they do something about this?" look in the mirror. Ask the person you see, "Why don't I do something about this?" The legacy that you leave will be the life that you lead.
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