Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Cary Cooper Section 1: The Individual at Work The episodic structure of life at work, Beal and Weiss (A Day in the Life of the Happy Worker) Personality testing in personnel selection, Diekmann & Konig (Employee Recruitment, Selection, and Assessment) Interventions to prevent and alleviate burnout, Leiter & Maslach (Burnout at Work) Humor, Stress, and Coping, Booth-Butterfield & Wanzer (The Psychology of Humor) Email overload, Rennecker & Derks (The Psychology of Digital Media at Work) Time, performance, and motivation, Roe (Time and Work, Volume 1) A closer look at key concepts of the work-nonwork interface, Demerouti, Corts & Boz (New Frontiers in Work and Family Research) The spillover-crossover model, Bakker & Demerouti (New Frontiers in Work and Family Research) Individualization of work arrangements, Bal & Lub (Idiosyncratic Deals between Employees and Organizations) Not so i-deal, Conway & Coyle-Shapiro (Idiosyncratic Deals between Employees and Organizations) Individual well-being and performance at work, Taris & Schaufeli (Wellbeing and Performance at Work) The active employee, Tims & Kooij (Wellbeing and Performance at Work) Individuals in the diverse workplace, Oudenhoven, Zee & Paulus (Towards Inclusive Organizations) Section II: The Organization of People at Work Recruitment processes and organizational attraction, Chapman & Mayers (Employee Recruitment, Selection, and Assessment) Job characteristics and problem-solving, Daniels (A Day in the Life of the Happy Worker) The good and bad of working relationships, Day & Leiter (Burnout at Work) Flow at work, Fullager, Fave and Van Krevelen (Flow at Work) Online social networks in the work context, Stopfer & Gosling (The Psychology of Digital Media at Work) Becoming, Ashforth, Harrison & Sluss (Time and Work, Volume 1) Time and leadership, Day (Time and Work, Volume 2) Using a positive organizational scholarship lens to enrich research on work-family relationships, Spreitzer (New Frontiers in Work and Family Research) A strategic HRM perspective on i-deals, Kroon, Freese & Schalk (Idiosyncratic Deals between Employees and Organizations) Organizational perspectives on diversity, Zee & Otten (Towards Inclusive Organizations) Organizational Change, Tomprou & Hansen (The Impact of Organizational Change) Conclusions, Cary Cooper

The episodic structure of life at work (From A day in the life of the happy worker) / Daniel J. Beal and Howard M. Weiss --
Personality testing in personnel selection: love it? Leave it? Understand it! (from Employment recruitment, selection, and assessment) / Janina Diekmann and Cornelius J. K̲ning --
Interventions to prevent and alleviate burnout (from Burnout at work) / Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach --
Humor, stress, and coping (from The psychology of humor) / Melanie Booth-Butterfield and melissa Bekelja Wanzer --
Email overlad: fine-tuning the research lens (from The psychology of digial media at work) / Julie Rennecker and Daantje Derks --
Time, performance, and motivation (from Time and work, volume 1) / Robert A. Roe --
A closer look at key conepts of the work-nonwork interface (from New frontiers in work and family research) / Evangelia Demerouti, Iňs Mart̕nez Corts, and Marina Boz --
The spillover-crossover model (from New frontiers in work and family research) / Arnold B. Bakker and Evangelia Demerouti --
Individualization of work arrangements: a contextualized perspective on the rise and use of i-deals (from Idiosyncratic deals between employees and organizations) / Matthijs Bal and Xander D. Lub --
Not so i-deal: a critical review of idiosyncratic deals theory and research (from Idiosyncratic deals between employees and organizations) / Neil Conway and Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro --
Individual well-being and performance at work: a conceptual and theoretical overview (from Wellbeing and performance at work) / Toon W. Taris and Wilmar B. Shaufeli --
The active employee: reconsidering the role of the individual worker in relation to the work context (from Wellbeing and performance at work) / Maria Tims and Dorien Kooij --
Individuals in the diverse workplace: the role of personality (from Towards inclusive organizations) / Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven, Karen van der Zee, and Paul B. Paulus --
Recruitment processes and organization attraction (from Employment recruitment, selection and assessment) / Derek S. Chapman and David Mayers --
Job characteristics and problem solving (from A day in the life of the happy worker) / Kevin Daniels --
The good and the bad of working relationships: revisiting the implications for bunout (from Burnout ta work) / Arla Day and Michael P. Leiter --
Flow at work: the evolution of a construct (from Flow at work) / Clive Fullagar, Antonella Delle Fave, and Steve Van Krevelen --
Online social networks in the work context (from The psychology of digital media at work) / Juliane M. stopfer and Samuel D. Gosling --
Becoming: the interaction of socialization and identity in organizations over time (from Time and work, volume 1) / Blake E. Ashforth, Spencer H. Harrison, and David M. Sluss --
Time and leadership (from Time and work, volume 2) / David V. Day --
Using a positive organizational scholarship lens to enrich research on work-family relationships (from New frontiers in work and family research) / Gretchen M. Spretizer --
A strategic HRM perspective on i-deals (from Idiosyncratic deals between employees and organizations) / Birgitte Kroon, Charissa Freese, and Reň Schalk --
Organizational perspectives on diversity (from Towards inclusive organizations) / Karen van der Zee and Sabine Otten --
Organizational change: implications for the psychological contract (from the Impact of organizational change) / Maria Tomprou and Samantha D. Hansen.

Current Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology is a series of edited books that reflect the state-of-the-art areas of current and emerging interest in the psychological study of employees, workplaces, and organizations. Each volume focuses on a particular topic and consists of chapters contributed by international experts, with an introductory overview written by the editors, who are leading figures in their areas. For the first time, this book offers a comprehensive new collection which gathers together some of the most influential chapters from the series into one volume, providing an essential overview of the hottest topics in work and organizational psychology. Including 24 chapters by many of the leading researchers in the field, the book is split into two parts; the individual in the workplace, and how individuals are organized at work. Topics such as burnout, recruitment, well-being and organizational change are covered, as well as research on emerging topics such as flow, humor, i-deals, and socialization. With an introduction and conclusion by Professor Sir Cary Cooper, this is the ideal companion for any student or practitioner looking for an insightful overview of the most researched topics in work and organizational psychology.

A series of edited books that reflect the state-of-the-art areas of current and emerging interest in the psychological study of employees, workplaces, and organisations. Each volume focuses on a particular topic and consists of chapters contributed by international experts, with an introductory overview written by the editors, who are leading figures in their areas. For the first time, this book offers a comprehensive new collection which gathers together some of the most influential chapters from the series into one volume, providing an essential overview of the hottest topics in work and organisational psychology. Including 24 chapters by many of the leading researchers in the field, the book is split into two parts; the individual in the workplace, and how individuals are organised at work.

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