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Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory, Third Edition (Applied Psychology)
Robert E. Ployhart , Benjamin Schneider , and Neal Schmitt
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory, the new third edition of a classic in the field, shows how organizations of all sizes can use effective staffing procedures as a source of sustained competitive advantage. Practically, the book shows how to choose, develop, and administer effective staffing procedures, including conducting job analyses, defining and measuring job performance, identifying predictors of performance that are both valid and legally defensible, and using this information to make sound hiring decisions. All three authors are active practitioners and recommendations based on their experiences are interwoven throughout the chapters. The authors are also grounded in a scientific, conceptual perspective that informs what they say and do in the staffing area. They review cutting-edge theory and research in diverse areas of importance to the practice of staffing, and identify scientific advances as well as areas that should be informed by additional research. Examples of such cutting-edge issues include: multilevel staffing models linking individual, group, and organizational levels; comprehensive consideration of diversity and cross-cultural challenges; the opportunities and challenges of the use of information technology in staffing; the legal, professional, and ethical challenges facing staffing practitioners; modern statistical approaches (e.g., structural equation modeling, item response theory, hierarchical linear modeling); and integrated models of staffing predictors and frameworks for understanding predictor and criterion spaces. Each chapter contains real-world examples and illustrations, a discussion of best practices, practical recommendations, and directions for future research. In doing so, Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory is a modern version of a genuine classic.

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Saved me $100.......2007-10-04

I ordered this book on 10-2-2007 and I received it the next day. The shipping was a little under $4.00. I called my bookstore at my school and was told that the schools copy of this book is $142.00. I was upset when I found out that i couldnt even get it used. But I checked this site and saw this one and brought it that day? My Professor was impressed with the copy of this text and that it covers everything that we are learning in this course. Thank you for helping a single mom of 2 save money!

Fantastic reference.......2007-02-21

Ignore the bogus rating provided by the other reviewer -- this is an exceptional book for those interested in an advanced coverage of selection and staffing. The major strength of this text is that it starts with an excellent coverage of relevant research methods topics, including validity, that are critical for students or practitioners learning about selection. The book then moves into coverage of specific predictors, and the reviews for each are concise, informed by up-to-date research, and take into account the perspective of both researchers and HR professionals. I use this book extensively when teaching selection and recommend it for all I/O Psychologists and HR professionals.

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Complete reference and source book of edible plants of the world, invaluable to gardeners, cooks, economic botanists, those in the specialty and gourmet foods business. Includes 3,000 species and 7,000 varieties of food plants. More than 1300 catalog sources for seeds, plants and food products are listed. Revised, updated and expanded edition.

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Incredible........2007-01-02

There currently is no better reference for edible fruits & vegetables. There are 1000's of entries, each with cultural (growing) information, significant cultivars, and known sources for the plants. Truly a heroic accomplishment.

Be sure to get the 2nd edition.

Christmas Present for My Hubby - The Edible Gardner Gone MAD!!!!.......2006-05-12

Lists all kinds of hard to find plants and varieties, etc. Wonderful illustrations on the front cover, but that is about it for pictures. A lot of reading, which is no problem, because it keeps you very entertained. My husband, who knows a lot about gardening edible plants, LOVES this book and was so excited when he got it that you would have thought I wrapped a Sunbeam Tiger and placed it under the tree!

If you or you have a loved one who's a garden guru, or would like to be. They/you will love this book! Took a long time to receive. Long wait.

Cornucopia, a Source Book of Edible Plants.......2006-05-09

Cornucopia is an excellent reference guide on a vast range of fruits and vegetables available to consumers, agriculturists, plant nurseries, growers and the produce industry. It ought to be ranked at the top with such books as "Fruits of Warm Climates" by Julia Morton (1987) and "Tropica" Graf. (1993) by Roehrs Publishing Co. It should be a must in the libraries of all who seek to know what nature has to offer.

Endlessly fascinating, comprehensive, essential reference.......1999-01-04

Interested in historic varieties of apples? Interested in the uses of little known fruits from the Kalahari desert, the Malay rainforest, the Siberian taiga? Want to know mail order sources for the above, or any other edible plant you've ever heard of, and literally thousands new to you? This astonishing work of scholarship does not include recipes, but adventurous cooks will be able to deduce them from the compressed notes of actual uses by peoples ranging from Inuit to French, modern and ancient. Fun to browse randomly and priceless for detailed research. The newest edition has just been published, and it's even better.

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Management and Organization: A Critical Text reveals a rethinking and reframing of the core issues at the heart of management studies. Keeping practice firmly in mind, this text provides a challenging yet accessible introduction for advanced undergraduate, MBA and specialist Masters students. Management and Organization: A Critical Text: * Offers a thoroughly up-to-date, critical perspective on the inextricably entwined subjects of management and organization * Incorporates cutting-edge research, discussing key contemporary changes such as the rise of the"virtual world" * Features contributions throughout from international scholars, providing unparalleled breadth and depth * Encourages students to engage critically with the subject through myriad case studies and reflective questions * Provides the most comprehensive teaching resource available for lecturers teaching management critically, featuring an extensive supporting website with PowerPoint slides

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Organization and Management: A Critical Text
Jim Barry , John Chandler , Heather Clark , Roger Johnston , and David Needle
Manufacturer: Int. Cengage Business Press
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Organization and Management: A Critical Text goes beyond the descriptive and managerial accounts of organizational behaviour. It offers a more critical and reflective text which contextualises and criticises conventional wisdom and attempts to re-orient the field by offering alternative approaches to the study of organizational behaviour. The authors take account of historical developments and key issues and ideas in their social, political, economic and global context. Areas examined include labour process issues, gender and other identities, flexibility and globalisation. More recent post-structuralist and post-modern approaches are also explored.

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Flak at 12 O'Clock is about a Kansas farmboy's teenage experiences that lead to his becoming a co-pilot of a B-17 in the 8th Air Force during the final months of World War II. He describes his adventures as an Aviation Cadet that lead to his assignment, the blunders of superior officers and his reasons for giving up a career in the Air Force.

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"A Decent Personal Account of WWII".......2003-11-10

Not a bad personal story of one man who fought in the Second World War. It was interesting to look at some of the ways people in the Heartland lived during the Depression (Bloyd's house had no running water or electricity). His journey through air training was quite an experience. Amazing how the Army can really find ways to screw you, from bitter instructors to telling you they don't need you flying a certain aircraft after you've just qualified on it. He did talk about some pretty hairy experiences, from flying through storms to getting bounced by flak to having German Me-262 jet fighters blast through his formation. Quite a few times I would have liked Bloyd to go into more detail about those events. Bottom line, he had some good descriptions, but not to the point where I felt I was in the cockpit with those guys. Same with some of his stories on the ground. Good stuff, but a little more detail would have really rought it to life.

Still, it certainly is an enjoyable read.

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Bruno Bettelheim was a legendary psychotherapist; a revered author of influential clinical studies on the lives of autistic children as well as popular Freudian interpretations of myth and fairy tale; and founder of the Orthogenic School of psychoanalysis in Chicago. Nina Sutton, an admirer of his work, found herself stunned by the "Bettelheim Affair"--the scandal that erupted after he killed himself in 1990, at the age of 86, when his reputation as a benevolent sage was besmirched by former patients who claimed that he had sadistically beaten them. Beginning her biography with an account of that scandal, Sutton proceeds to analyze the legacy of the man's work, relating it to his difficult life, and goes some way toward reclaiming Bettelheim's damaged reputation.

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The gift and tragedy of a surviver as child psychologist.......2002-11-02

I simply wish to say that there would no controversy if thoughtful, sensitive people were in control of their own emotions and were objective enough to put Bruno Bettelheim and his times in perspecitve. This is one of the implicit themes of the book.The author, a journalist, has study the facts and has the intuition to understand as much as any biographer can at this time a complex suffering personality. I hope only that the time will come when such a understanding can be objectively drawn. But meanwhile the biographer has made at least this attentive and by no means unskeptical reader understand the controversy and the facts of the case are not always one and the same...

Another Attempt at Pseudopsychoanalysis.......2001-06-30

The reviewers who praised this book didn't check the facts and neither did the author. In fact, the book is highly inaccurate both in its facts and conclusions. The book merely applies the same pseudopsychoanalysis as the subject applied to his "patients," including me.

I was a source for the book and nearly everything in it about me is totally wrong. I shared considerable information with the author following a 1990 article in the Washington Post I wrote detailing Bettelheim's unsupported claims and physical and psychological abuse of his wards. The author promised that I could control anything that appeared in the book about me. But the book came out with all sorts of unsourced untruths about me that the author never bothered to check with me. From the looks of them, I suspect some she made up and some she heard from Bettelheim's defenders who worked at the school and broke their professional code of silence to reveal "information" about a "patient." It evidently never occured to the author that these people may have wanted to smear me to save their own reputations. The author even had the nerve to state as fact how I was feeling, which is amazing because she never asked me. In fact, I never felt the way she said I felt.

The book just amounted to the same type of Freudian nonsense I was subject to at Bettleheim's school -- someone else telling you that you don't feel what you feel -- you really feel what I tell you you feel. The book even managed to completely misrepresent what I wrote in the Washington Post. I have been quoted in many publiciations on this and other matters but I have never seen anything so far from the truth. The author didn't like my thesis and couldn't get me on the facts, so she apparently made up her own.

Immediately upon the book's publication, I notified the publisher by letter of the book's errors, but the publisher never corrected them in subsequent printings. And no one even had the decency to answer my letter. To this very day, the company continues to sell a book it knows is inaccurate.

A truly remarkable and enriching biography.......1999-03-02

This book moved me deeply. Not only did it tell me a fascinating story about a man whose life span the century, but it moved me deeply. It's not a funny book, but it is a riveting one. Rather than pretending to know it all, the author takes her reader on an investigative journey: Who was the true Bettelheim? She shares her doubts as well as her discoveries some of which I shall never forget. And in the end, everything seems to fall into place - the good, the bad, everything human, I guess.

an ideal look at Bettelheim which is totally wrong.......1999-02-12

As a former student at Dr. Bettelheim's school in Chicago, I found this book to be very inadaquate in its description of Dr. Bettelheim. This man did a great deal of harm to the students attending this school and was not the savior which Ms. Sutten would like him to be potrayed as. His methods of treatment can be compared with how the German Nazis treated their concentration camp victims. He did beat the students a great deal and fear was a common, shared, feeling which most of the kids felt towards him. His use of imtimadation towards the children, as well as the staff, was complete. Since Ms. Sutton was not a student at the Orthogenic School, of course she would not know the things that went on there. If Bettelheim was alive today, he would be arrested for child abuse, and this is a fact that Ms. Sutton doesn't want to admit.

Avoiding the issues.......1997-10-06

A fascinating opportunity wasted. Sutton accepts Bettelheim'sown picture of himself entirely at face value, and the book quicklyturns into a lengthy exercise in avoiding the issues. She notes first-hand reports of brutality towards the children in his care only to follow them with psychoanalytic explanations of why it was really for the child's own good that Bettelheim hit them - indeed, Sutton manages at one point to give the impression that hitting a small child for crying was a positively saintly act of altruism on Bettelheim's part. Bettelheim's frauds - such concocting and entirely fictitious CV - are excused as creative exaggerations. Even his faking of his own results is explained away by the ludicrous line: "On a deeper level ... Bettelheim did not cheat". Any critics of Bettelheim's methods, are, it is snidely implied, acting out of their own deep emotional problems.

In fact Sutton manages to get through the entire volume, including inordinate praise of Bettelheim's cruel and absurd "The Empty Fortress" (referred to by Leo Kanner as "The Empty Book") without once mentioning that Bettelheim's notorious claim that autism was caused by parents' hatred of their child has been conclusively scientifically discredited. Nor does it seem to concern her that it caused years of suffering for parents told that their child's only hope was to be removed from them completely. Instead, she lauds Bettelheim's "understanding" of autistic children (although high-functioning individuals with autism are usually moved to hysterical laughter or fury by his interpretations) and even his psychoanalytic treatment of autism (although research shows it to be entirely ineffective). Anyone advocating an alternative view of autism is lambasted as cold, uncaring and only interested in neurology, and accused of wanting to train autistic children like animals, which is hardly an unbiased assessment. Given that Bettelheim's reputation was built around his "treatment" of autism, these omissions and distortions are culpable.

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Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy. (book reviews): An article from: Social Work
Philip Lichtenberg
Manufacturer: National Association of Social Workers
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This digital document is an article from Social Work, published by National Association of Social Workers on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 643 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy. (book reviews)
Author: Philip Lichtenberg
Publication: Social Work (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: National Association of Social Workers
Volume: v43 Issue: n2 Page: p188(2)

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