This book provides an in depth survey of the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I/O), a specialized field within the larger discipline of psychology also called Work and Organizational Psychology, Occupational Psychology, and Organizational Psychology. I/O is the scientific study of how individuals and groups behave in the performance of work activities and in the context of organizations. It is also the application of this research to improving the effectiveness and the we...

This volume brings together top scholars in industrial and organizational psychology with social psychologists to explore the research and theory relating to various areas of workplace discrimination.Many of the contributors to this book participated in a conference on workplace discrimination held at Rice University in May 2000. The idea came from the realization that there had been no attempt to bring together the various literatures on the topic. Discrimination and issues of emp...

De acuerdo con la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) "Los factores psicosociales en el empleo son complejos y difíciles de entender, dado que representan el conjunto de las percepciones y experiencias del trabajador y abarcan muchos aspectos", entre ellos el trabajo y su composición, los ambientes y climas dentro y fuera de las organizaciones y, la salud de los trabajadores. Existen factores psicosociales descriptivos, que se refieren a la estructura organizacional, al liderazgo,...