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CHAPTER 6 – PERSONALITY

Personality testing instruments

• www.apa.org/science/testing.html (tests from the American Psychological Association)
• www.queendom.com/tests.html (IQ tests , personality tests and team orientation tests)

 

Employment selection tests

• www.bps.org.uk (UK British Psychological Society)
• www.psychometrics.com (tests of personality and in depth knowledge of a profession; used by many organizations)

Sociology

• http://sociologyindex.com (core sociological concepts , processes and methods)

 

Theorists

• www.freud.org.uk
• www.wynja.com/personality/theorists.html

 

CHAPTER 7 – PERCEPTION

Blindness and visual illusions

• www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ (Visual Illusions Exploratorium , San Francisco)
• www.nelliemuller.com/inattentional_blindness.htm (studies in inattentional blindness)
• www.psych.ubc.ca/~rensink/flicker/download ( studies in inattentional blindness)
• http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/demos.html (Gorilla video)

 

Human error and risk avoidance in complex work settings

• www.abdn.ac.uk/iprc (Industrial Psychology Research Centre , University of Aberdeen)
• www.hsl.gov.uk (The Health and Safety Laboratory)

 

Learned optimism

• www.positivepsychology.org (questionnaire on subjective happiness)

 

CHAPTER 8 – LEARNING

Theories of learning

• http://ccs.mit.edu/LH/ (Learning Theories Research Project)
• http://tip.psychology.org (summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction)

 

Theories of learning in the organization

• www.ahrd.org
• www.cipd.co.uk/HRD
• www.elearningnetwork.org
• www.mapnp.org/library/trng_dev/trng_dev.htm (training strategies , including formal and strategic methods of training)

 

Lifelong learning

• www.lifelonglearning.co.uk
• www.lifelonglearning.co.uk/llp/index.htm
• www.lsc.gov.uk

 

Equality

• http://www.cre.gov.uk/publs/cat_employ.html (Commission for racial equality publications covering issues facing ethnic minorities at work)

 

Chapter case study – sources of information

• www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072702473.html (information about the Debt Collection industry)
• www.shef.ac.uk/s/sypcdu/toolkit.pdf (information on research evaluating training)

 

 

CHAPTER 9 – MOTIVATION AT WORK

Motivation theories

• http://academic.emporia.edu/smithwil/00fallmg443/eja/tuel.html (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs)
• http://psychology.about.com/cs/somotiv/

 

Reward systems in practice

• www.ced.com (team-based rewards)
• www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/prp/menu.htm (profit-related pay in the UK)
• http://www.frsonline.fire.gov.uk/publications/article/17/306 (See Chapter 8 of the report for information on the suggested introduction of a new reward structure)

 

Management by objectives

• www.fed.org/pdf/myth2fed.pdf (critique of the idea of using stock options in motivating employees)
• www.equishare.com/profile (using Gainsharing to motivate employees)
• www.performancesolutionstech.com/FromMBOtoPM.pdf
• www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/mgmt_mbo_main.html
• www.management-issues.com/2007/10/1/opinion/unlocking-the-power-of-ownership.asp (using stock options in motivating employees)

 

Organization culture

• www.managementhelp.org/org_thry/culture/culture.htm

 

CHAPTER 10 : EQUITY IN ORGANIZATIONS: ISSUES OF GENDER , RACE , DISABILITY AND CLASS

Industrial and social psychology

• www.socialpsychology.org
• www.socialpsychology.org/io.htm

 

Equity

• www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/040700/gender.html
• www.publicservice.co.uk/pdf/dfid/winter2003/DfID1%20MMS%20Mdladlana%20ATL.pdf

 

Health and disability

• www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/wyp/ (take the attitude quiz to find out what your attitudes are to disabled people)
• www.independentliving.org/docs4/oliver.html (papers by Mark Oliver , a leader in the field of disability studies)
• www.who.int/classifications/icf/en/index.html (WHO classification of functioning , disability and health)

 

Ethno-racial organizations

• www.irr.org.uk/employment (UK)
• http://mp3.lpi.org.uk/resistancemp3/marxism-and-race.mp3 (international)

 

Gender and sexuality

• http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/ (report of the ‘Federal Glass Ceiling Commission’)
• www.un.org/womenwatch/ (site offering weblinks and documents related to the current situation of women in the world)
• http://www.outandequal.org (support for employees who are lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender)