Category: Books

  • Ageless talent: Enhancing the performance and well-being of your age-diverse workforce

    Ageless talent: Enhancing the performance and well-being of your age-diverse workforce

    Finkelstein, L. M., Truxillo, D. M., Fraccaroli, F., & Kanfer, R. (2021). Ageless talent: Enhancing the performance and well-being of your age-diverse workforce (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326608

  • Cognitive Fatigue

    Cognitive Fatigue

    The years since World War II have seen remarkable progress in the field of cognitive fatigue. Many fascinating and encouraging lines of research have been explored, including performance effects associated with cognitive fatigue; task characteristics leading to fatigue; feelings, motivational determinants, biological, and neuropsychological aspects of cognitive fatigue; and drug effects on cognitive fatigue. However,…

  • Emotions in the Workplace

    Emotions in the Workplace

    This book is the first to bring together recent findings in one place and present a solid industrial/organizational research perspective on this complex area of inquiry. Emotions in the Workplace offers a concise, scholarly introduction to new developments and an overview of how basic theory and research in affect and emotions has influenced the science…

  • Learning and Individual Differences

    Learning and Individual Differences

    “Learning and Individual Differences” spans a diverse range of topics, focusing on those research areas that facilitate the exchange of ideas across different approaches. Research areas covered include experimental, differential, developmental, and instructional/educational psychology as well as the integration of cognitive and differential approaches. Research in each area is placed in its proper historical perspective,…

  • Abilities Motivation and Methodology

    Abilities Motivation and Methodology

    Diverse developments in ability and motivation research, and in the derivations of new methodological techniques have often run on parallel courses. The editors of this volume felt that communication across domains could be vastly improved through intensive interaction between researchers. This interaction was realized in The Minnesota Symposium on Learning and Individual Differences, which directly…

  • Work Motivation

    Work Motivation

    Work Motivation proposes that motivation must be seen as a multi-level phenomenon where individual, group,organizational and cultural variables must be considered to truly understand it. The book adopts an overall framework that encompasses “internal” – from the person – forces and “external” – from the immediate and more distant environment – forces. It is destined…

  • Learning and Individual Differences: Process, Trait, and Content Determinants

    Learning and Individual Differences: Process, Trait, and Content Determinants

    Researchers from the United States and seven other countries present leading-edge research and theory concerning the topic of learning and individual differences, which continues to be a vibrant area for multidisciplinary investigation. Developments in several areas, including cognitive, experimental, instructional, quantitative methodology, and differential psychology provide key insights for understanding both the characteristics of the…

  • Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce: A Use-Inspired Approach

    Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce: A Use-Inspired Approach

    Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce examines the shifting economic, cultural, and technological trends in the modern workplace that are taking place as a result of the aging global workforce. Taking an international perspective, contributors address workforce aging issues around the world, allowing for productive cross-cultural comparisons. Chapters adopt a use-inspired approach, with contributors…