The Ultimate Advantage or Industrial Organizational Psychology

The Ultimate Advantage: Creating the High-Involvement Organization

Author: Edward E E Lawler

Offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed to realize the full potential of high-involvement management. Details the types of management and reward systems, leadership behaviors, job design, and training programs that make high-involvement organizations really work at such thriving companies as Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Xerox. Shows how to implement such specific practices as work teams, skill-based pay, gainsharing, and improvement groups.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	The Author
Pt. 1	Searching for Competitive Advantage
1	Make Management an Advantage	3
2	Choose the Right Management Style	25
Pt. 2	Designing Organizations, Work, and Rewards
3	Create a High-Involvement Structure	51
4	Identify Work Design Alternatives	77
5	Develop Involving Work	101
6	Foster Organization-Improvement Groups	122
7	Pay the Person, Not the Job	144
8	Reward Performance	172
Pt. 3	Managing Information and Human Resources
9	Promote Open Information Channels	205
10	Establish High-Involvement Management Practices	225
11	Support Positive Managerial Behavior	254
12	Involve Unions in the Organization	282
Pt. 4	Creating High-Involvement Organizations
13	Develop High-Involvement Business Units	307
14	Manage the Change Toward High-Involvement	323
	References	349
	Index	363

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Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Understanding the Workplace

Author: Paul E Levy

This student-friendly textbook, written by a leading researcher at one of the nation's top I/O programs, is unique in its emphasis on how I/O psychologists are trained; its social/contextual approach to performance appraisal; and the strength of its pedagogy, including "practitioner forums." This edition features full integration of changes and events that are currently taking place in today's work environments. Industrial/Organizational Psychology focuses on the psychology of the workforce, employee health and well-being, organizational behavior, motivation, human resources, and various dynamics of work interaction. Levy's book has been well received by reviewers for its applied approach and for the author's personal, direct, and casual tone, which sets it apart in the field.

• Up-to-date research coverage includes group polarization, team performance, team diversity, and team conflict (all in Chapter 12: Group Process and Team Work)
• Additional current topics include thorough treatment of Personnel Law, Employee Selection, a unique separate chapter on Criterion Measurement, work-family issues, and violence in the workplace.
• Additional features includes Practitioner Forum sections, Learning Objectives, and Review Questions.