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This volume focuses on describing the social dialogue system in organizations from an Human Resources Management perspective. Based on the NEIRE model for industrial relations, key factors are determined contributing to creative social dialogue in European organizations. Actual data from surveys and interviews from more than 700 CEO and HR managers in eleven European countries give insights in the experiences with and expectations of employers of social dialogue. The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the historical context and current situation in social dialogue in these countries. This context helps to understand the current major challenges in each country when it comes to a vital social dialogue. Using good practices from many organizations, this book offers an agenda for innovative and cooperative social dialogue in organizations.

Psychology. --- Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology. --- Social Policy. --- Political Science, general. --- Philosophy (General). --- Social policy. --- Applied psychology. --- Politique sociale --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Marketing & Sales --- Psychology, Applied. --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- National planning --- State planning --- Political science. --- Industrial psychology. --- Political Science. --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Psychology --- Industrial and Organizational Psychology. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Business psychology --- Industrial psychology --- Psychotechnics --- Industrial engineering --- Personnel management --- Psychology, Applied --- Industrial psychologists --- Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology --- Social Policy --- Political Science, general

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The Creative Engineering Design Assessment or CEDA is a newly developed tool to assess creativity specific to engineering design which is vital for innovation. The revised CEDA assesses usefulness in addition to originality.  Both originality and usefulness are key constructs in creativity but are primarily essential and emphasized ever more in engineering design.  Since the preliminary research was presented to the National Science Foundation, further reliability and validity has been developed and established. The CEDA is different from other general creativity measures as it demonstrates discriminant validity with the Creative Personality Scale, Creative Temperament Scale, and the Cognitive Risk Tolerance Scale, and has demonstrated convergent validity with the Purdue Creativity Test and the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test- Rotations. It focuses on engineering specific measures, measuring engineering creativity and spatial skills. The aim of this book is to disseminate the CEDA tool for use in engineering educational programs, industry, NASA and the military.  Creative Engineering Design Assessment (CEDA) Background, Directions, Manual, Scoring Guide and Uses discusses and outlines the need for creativity in our global economy and in engineering design and provides the CEDA tool in effort to achieve this.

Engineering design. --- Industrial design. --- Design, Industrial --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Design --- Engineering. --- Industrial psychology. --- Engineering Design. --- Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology. --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Mechanical drawing --- New products --- Applied psychology. --- Industrial and Organizational Psychology. --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Psychology --- Business psychology --- Industrial psychology --- Psychotechnics --- Industrial engineering --- Personnel management --- Psychology, Applied --- Industrial psychologists

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The essential problem in entrepreneurship is improving the performance of entrepreneurs. The most important theories will be the ones that most enable us to predict and then ultimately influence entrepreneurial performance. This book develops a new and more accurate theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity. The field of entrepreneurship has a long tradition of expecting entrepreneurial performance to be influenced by creativity, tracing back even before the pioneering work of Joseph Schumpeter (1883 to 1950), who defined entrepreneurship as creative-destruction—creating the new by supplanting or destroying the old. Subsequently, psychologist Robert Sternberg defined creativity as broadly encompassing creative aspects of personality, motivation, intellect, thinking style and relevant knowledge. Using Sternberg’s definition of creativity, the authors reviewed the evidence directly linking entrepreneurial creativity and entrepreneurial performance, concluding that the linkage is both statistically and practically significant. In order to scientifically tie entrepreneurship to creativity the book pursues a number of major objectives: In parts one and two, the authors remind us of our scientific challenge in the light of the depressing levels of performance typically to be found in the real world of entrepreneurship, and explores the limitations of the dominant paradigms driving research in the field of entrepreneurship today. In part three, they bring together existing evidence to demonstrate the predictive and explanatory powers of creativity in relation to entrepreneurship. In part four, they further explore correlations between creativity and entrepreneurial performance at the individual and macro, or society, levels. In summary, the book offers a bold predictive theory claiming to predict 30 to 50% of entrepreneurial performance variance. This result is a general scientific theory that offers a serious challenge to entrepreneurial scholars who are pursuing other means for understanding the causality of entrepreneurial performance.

Economics/Management Science. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Organization/Planning. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology. --- Economics. --- Business planning. --- Applied psychology. --- Economie politique --- Projet d'entreprise --- Entrepreneuriat --- Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Business. --- Leadership. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Industrial psychology. --- Business and Management. --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Industrial and Organizational Psychology. --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Psychology --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Organisation --- Management --- Business psychology --- Industrial psychology --- Psychotechnics --- Industrial engineering --- Personnel management --- Psychology, Applied --- Industrial psychologists --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Organization

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“Are you an ethical person?” Regardless of your answer, a follow-up probe might be: “How do you know?” Your personal values reflect your beliefs, what you care about. These values, if they really matter to you, are activated by and through your everyday decisions. How do you ensure that your values, those that reflect your best ethical self, are actually demonstrated in the choices you make on a daily basis? Sometimes what we say we value does not match our actual behavior. Being ethical requires the ability to discern and navigate competing values, continually striving to attain both personal and organizational goals with moral strength. This necessitates the development of skills that support personal governance and your moral competency. To be ethical, building moral strength needs to become a focus of your daily life, which calls for making a deliberate effort to apply the values you say you hold. In reading this book you will see how awareness of your thoughts and emotions—along with specific moral competencies—can influence your desire to do the right thing and bolster your ability to exercise moral strength at work. Drawing insight from the latest research in management, business ethics, organizational behavior, and psychology, each chapter is intended to help adult learners examine, leverage, and continue to develop their best ethical selves in organizational life.

Business. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Ethics. --- Industrial psychology. --- Business and Management. --- Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology. --- Business psychology --- Industrial psychology --- Psychotechnics --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Organisation --- Trade --- Applied psychology. --- Industrial and Organizational Psychology. --- Philosophy --- Values --- Management --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Psychology --- Business ethics. --- Business --- Businesspeople --- Commercial ethics --- Corporate ethics --- Corporation ethics --- Professional ethics --- Wealth --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Industrial engineering --- Personnel management --- Psychology, Applied --- Industrial psychologists --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Organization

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Human and organizational factors have a substantial impact on the performance of planning and scheduling processes. Despite widespread and advanced decision support systems, human decision makers are still crucial to improve the operational performance in manufacturing industries. In this text, the state of the art in this area is discussed by experts from a wide variety of engineering and social science disciplines. Moreover, recent results from collaborative studies and a number of field cases are presented. The text is targeted at researchers and graduate students, but is also particularly useful for managers, consultants, and system developers to better understand how human performance can be advanced.

Operations research. --- Business logistics --- Production planning --- Management --- Management Theory --- Management Styles & Communication --- Business & Economics --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Business. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Decision making. --- Industrial engineering. --- Production engineering. --- Engineering economics. --- Engineering economy. --- Industrial psychology. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Business and Management. --- Operation Research/Decision Theory. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory