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41. The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching

    Edited by Michel Moral, Geoffrey Abbott

    An effective coach can help the business leader make sense of the challenges and complexities of modern international business, unlocking the potential of both leader and organization. This important handbook offers the first comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theory and practice of...

    Published January 3rd 2011 by Routledge
42. How Audiences Decide

    A Cognitive Approach to Business Communication

    By Richard Young

    How Audiences Decide: A Cognitive Approach to Business Communication is a comprehensive introduction to persuasive communication in the context of business. It summarizes relevant theories and findings from the fields of cognitive science, social cognition, leadership, team cognition,...

    Published December 19th 2010 by Routledge
43. Developmental Coaching

    Life Transitions and Generational Perspectives

    Edited by Stephen Palmer, Sheila Panchal

    Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

    Developmental Coaching explores many of the common transition points we experience throughout life, including teenage transitions, becoming a parent, mid-life and retirement. The book sets these transitions in their social context and reviews them in the light of generational factors. The book is...

    Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
44. Metaphors We Lead By

    Understanding Leadership in the Real World

    Edited by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer

    We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic ill can be mended through better leadership. Sometimes, this commitment to leadership is followed by hero worshipping, wishful thinking and misplaced hope. Seeking to understand the faith we place...

    Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge
45. Tackling Depression at Work

    A Practical Guide for Employees and Managers

    By Kerrie Eyers, Gordon Parker

    If you have depression, do you persevere or do you risk telling your manager? If you are a manager, what can you do to support the employee and ensure the job is done? Figures suggest that more than ten percent of people in the workforce struggle with depression. Both employees and their managers...

    Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge
46. Social Justice and the Experience of Emotion

    By Russell Cropanzano, Jordan H. Stein, Thierry Nadisic

    This book seeks to integrate the scholarship on justice and affect. The authors focus on empirical social scientific theories pertaining to fairness, mood and emotion. Most of the literature in this book is drawn from social and organizational psychology. Other areas included are management,...

    Published October 28th 2010 by Routledge Academic
47. EEO Law and Personnel Practices, Third Edition

    By Arthur Gutman, Laura L. Koppes, Stephen J. Vodanovich

    The goal of this well known book is to provide methods for understanding major EEO laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. Also included are over 700 cases involving federal case law that focus on issues relating to...

    Published October 11th 2010 by Psychology Press
48. The New Psychology of Leadership

    Identity, Influence and Power

    By S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher, Michael J. Platow

    Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2011! Shortlisted for the CMI (Chartered Management Institute) Management Book of the Year Award 2011–2012! According to John Adair, the most important word in the leader's vocabulary is "we" and the least important word is "I". But...

    Published September 23rd 2010 by Psychology Press
49. Informed by Knowledge

    Expert Performance in Complex Situations

    Edited by Kathleen L. Mosier, Ute M. Fischer

    Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

    The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or "fuse" disparate items of information into coherent knowledge. The chapters examine these processes across experts (e.g. global leaders, individuals in extreme...

    Published September 21st 2010 by Psychology Press
50. Crisis Communications

    A Casebook Approach, 4th Edition

    By Kathleen Fearn-Banks

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach presents case studies of organizational, corporate, and individual crises, and analyzes the communication responses to these situations. Demonstrating how professionals prepare for and respond to crises, as well as how they develop communications plans,...

    Published September 20th 2010 by Routledge