Description

This textbook prepares postgraduate students for their future careers by demonstrating how organizational psychology can be used to support real-world HR practice.

Organizational Psychology integrates theoretical frameworks of organizational psychology with HR applications to enable them to integrate evidence-based approaches into their work. Real-world examples, including Grab Taxi, Hapimag and Huawei will show how HR practitioners have implemented these theories in practice. It introduces scientific tools, knowledge and research expertise and demonstrates how these can be applied in ethical leadership, strategic decision-making and improving motivation. It enables postgraduate students of Human Resource Management and Organizational Psychology to understand the foundations of the theory and implement them in their future careers.

Features include:
- Chapters on the changing context of work, strategic people management and workplace wellbeing, showing how organizational psychology theories can be used in HR practice
- Learning features of learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter, reflective questions and tasks, key summary points and further reading boxes
- An international and cross-cultural perspective with real-world examples from Grab Taxi (Singapore), Hapimag (Switzerland) and Huawei (China)
- Research methods and analytical techniques found in psychology that can be used to support evidence-based HR students