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Print Price: $147.95

Format:
Hardback
368 pp.
24 b/w line illustrations, 6.9" x 10"

ISBN-13:
9780195335446

Publication date:
November 2009

Imprint: OUP US


Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work

Edited by P. Alex Linley, Susan Harrington and Nicola Garcea

Series : Oxford Library of Psychology

Part of the Oxford Library of Psychology, the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work examines what positive psychology offers to our understanding of key issues in working life today. Drawing on the disparate literatures from positive psychology, management, I/O psychology, and human resources, the volume begins with a consideration of the changing world of work that sets the context for the rest of the book and then moves into a specific consideration of work issues from the perspective of positive psychology. Chapters focus on such topics as strengths, leadership, human resource management, employee engagement, communications, well-being, and work-life balance. The volume will be a core resource for both researchers and practitioners interested in the application of positive psychology to work.

Readership : Suitable for researchers and practitioners interested in the application of positive psychology to work.

1. P. Alex Linley, Susan Harrington, and Nicky Page: Finding the Positive in the World of Work
Part One: Positive Psychology and the Changing World of Work
2. Wayne F. Cascio: The Changing World of Work
3. Jean M. Twenge and Stacy M. Campbell: Generation Me and the Changing World of Work
Part Two: Positive Organizational Leadership
4. Bruce J. Avolio, Jakari Griffith, Tara S. Wernsing, and Fred O. Walumbwa: What is Authentic Leadership Development?
5. Lynn Perry Wooten and Kim S. Cameron: Enablers of a Positive Strategy: Positively Deviant Leadership
6. Malcolm Higgs: Change and Its Leadership: The Role of Positive Emotions
7. Leslie E. Sekerka and Barbara L. Fredrickson: Working Positively Toward Transformative Cooperation
8. Danny Morris and Jill Garrett: Strengths: Your Leading Edge
9. Robert E. Kaplan and Robert B. Kaiser: Towards a Positive Psychology for Leaders
Part Three: Positive Work Environments for Individuals and Organizations
10. James K. Harter and Nikki Blacksmith: Employee Engagement and the Psychology of Joining, Staying In, and Leaving Organizations
11. Michael F. Steger and Bryan J. Dik: Work as Meaning: Individual and Organizational Benefits of Engaging in Meaningful Work
12. Thomas A. Wright: More than Meets the Eye: The Role of Employee Well-Being in Organizational Research
13. Martin Stairs and Martin Galpin: Positive Engagement: From Employee Engagement to Workplace Happiness?
Part Four: Enabling a Positive Working Life
14. Anthony M. Grant and Gordon B. Spence: Using Coaching and Positive Psychology to Promote a Flourishing Workforce: A Model of Goal-Striving and Mental Health
15. Oberdan Marianetti and Jonathan Passmore: Mindfulness at Work: Paying Attention to Enhance Well-being and Performance
16. Boris B. Baltes, Malissa A. Clark, and Madhura Chakrabarti: Work-Life Balance: The Roles of Work-Family Conflict and Work-Family Facilitation
17. Timothy D. Hodges and Jim Asplund: Strengths Development in the Workplace
18. Christopher Peterson, John Paul Stephens, Nansook Park, Fiona Lee, and Martin E. P. Seligman: Strengths of Character and Work
Part Five: Models for Positive Organization
19. Joanne Richardson and Michael A. West: Dream Teams: A Positive Psychology of Team Working
20. Don Mroz and Shawn Quinn: Positive Organizational Scholarship Leaps into the World of Work
21. Susan Harrington and Charlotte Rayner: Look Before You Leap or Dive Right In? The Use of Moral Courage in Response to Workplace Bullying
22. Carolyn M. Youssef and Fred Luthans: An Integrated Model of Psychological Capital in the Workplace
23. Jocelyn S. Davis: Building the Positive Workplace: A Preliminary Report from the Field
Part Six: Looking to the Future: Challenges and Opportunities
24. Lynn Barendsen and Howard Gardner: Good for What? The Young Worker in a Global Age
25. Samantha Warren: What's Wrong with Being Positive?
26. Nicky Page, Susan Harrington, and P. Alex Linley: Building Positive Organizations
Index

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Alex Linley is the Founding Director of the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology (www.cappeu.org), as well as a Visiting Professor in Psychology at the University of Leicester, UK. He has written, co-written, or edited more than 100 research papers and book chapters and four books, including Positive Psychology in Practice (Wiley, 2004) and Average to A+: Realising Strengths in Yourself and Others (CAPP Press, 2008). He is an Associate Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Positive Psychology and the Journal of Positive Psychology, as well as Co-Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review, and a regular reviewer for a number of journals, publishers, and grant-awarding bodies. Through his consulting work, he applies the principles of positive psychology and strengths to organization and people development.

Susan Harrington is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a Teaching Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Leicester, UK. Her occupational practice has included developing and running assessment and development centers and performance appraisal systems, psychometric training and application in organizations, and workplace bullying interventions. Her work has been published in the Journal of Positive Psychology, the International Coaching Psychology Review, and Personality and Individual Differences.

Nicky Page is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Consulting Director at the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP, www.cappeu.org). Nicky's areas of research and consulting expertise span recruitment, development, and performance management. She has designed and delivered consulting assignments for a range of private and public sector clients in the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Argentina, Venezuela, the United States, and Canada. In recent years she has led a team of psychologists at CAPP to deliver pioneering organizational projects that integrate positive psychology and best practice occupational psychology. Nicky's work has been published in a variety of journals including HR Director, PersonalFuhrung, and Selection and Development Review. She has also edited a special issue of Organisations and People on "Applying Positive Psychology in Organisations" and is a regular speaker at HR and occupational psychology events.

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Special Features

  • This comprehensive volume pulls together research from a number of distinct literatures such as positive psychology, management, human resources, and industrial-organizational psychology.