Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Editor/Author: Rogelbert, Steven G.
Publication Year: 2007
Publisher: Sage Publications

ISBN: 978-1-4129-2470-2
Category: social sciences
Image Count: 46
Book Status: Available

The Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology presents a thorough overview of the cross-disciplinary field of industrial and organizational psychology for students, researchers, and professionals in the areas of psychology, business, management, and human resources. Readers are provided with state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts.

This book is found in the following Credo Collections:

• SAGE Psychology Collection
• SAGE Reference Collection
• Psychology Collection

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• The tremendous growth in the field of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology, possibly psychology's fastest growing subspecialty, spurred the creation of this encyclopedia. It covers the key topics in I/O psychology, including testing/assessment, attitudes, individual differences, ethical/legal issues, employee selection, employee behavior, job analysis and design, research methods and statistics, diversity, compensation, ergonomics, staffing and career issues, job satisfaction, training, motivation, management and leadership, teams and groups, and organizational design and structure. The work comprises an alphabetical arrangement of short (one-to-three-page), signed articles, each with a bibliography. Completing the encyclopedia are several appendixes with helpful information on I/O psychology education and research, and a complete index (printed in each volume). Editor Rogelberg (professor, and founder/director of an I/O psychology consulting and outreach center at the Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte) is an active leader in the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the author of numerous research publications. The most recent comparable title to the Encyclopedia is Industrial and Organizational Psychology, volume 12 of the 2003 Handbook of Psychology (CH, Nov'03, 41-1861). This handbook volume is less like an encyclopedia and more like a textbook, with lengthy chapters on broad topics; its writing style seems more complex, and the long chapters in subject arrangement make zeroing in on a specialized topic a bit more difficult than does the Encyclopedia, with its alphabetical arrangement of multiple shorter articles. Written in accessible language, this new work is most appropriate for undergraduates and graduate students seeking to understand the concepts basic to the field, but it will be helpful for researchers and practitioners in need of straightforward explanations of I/O psychology concepts.

  M. Sylvia
  St. Mary's University

• Including over 400 entries organized alphabetically, Sage's Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology satisfactorily fills a gap in the reference needs of those studying and serving the needs of industrial and organizational psychology. Capturing for the first time the vast diversity and sophistication of a quickly evolving discipline, this two-volume encyclopedia is appropriate for experts while remaining accessible to students and other non-experts through state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts. Beginning with an entry on abusive supervision and ending with one on work values, this encyclopedia provides to industrial/organizational (I/O) practitioners and researchers alike an alphabetic and cross-referenced resource that is also user-friendly to the novice in the field.Starting with an introduction, providing a foundation in that area for the novice, each entry ends with a list of suggestions for further readings to take the reader to the next level, both in this resource and externally. As stated in the preface, the field of I/O psychology, both a science and a practice, is experiencing tremendous growth. The growth in demands for service, rising membership in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and increasing numbers of graduates from masters and doctoral programs has created an expanding void in the literature. Including a reader's guide to help with the organization of the much-needed content into 14 sections (History; Ethical and Legal issues; Research Methods; Measurement Theory and Statistics; Understanding and Assessing Individual Differences; Employment, Staffing, and Career Issues; Developing, Training, and Evaluating Employees; Productive and Counterproductive Employee Behavior; Motivation and Job Design; Leadership and Management; Groups, Teams, and Working with Others; Employee Well-Being and Attitudes; Organizational Structure, Design, and Change; Professional Organizations and Related Fields), any user can find not only an alphabetic organization but also a subject-based access method to the well-written contributions to this encyclopedia.

  Sara Marcus
  Asst. Professor of Education, Touro University International, N.Y.