Overview
Helps professionals choose the best psychological scales and instruments to measure organizational behavior
Presents theoretical reviews and technical evaluations of scales used to measure organization behavior variables
Covers both micro and macro organizational aspects
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Micro-organizational Aspects
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Front Matter
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Macro-organizational Measures and Future Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Organizational Behaviors
- Personnel Selection
- Psychological Assessment
- Psychological Scales
- Measurement Instruments
- Job Crafting
- Organizational Change
- Well-being at Work
- Bridge Employment
- Retirement
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Resilience at Work
- Leadership in Organizations
- Quality of Life at Work
- Organizational Climate
- Creativity
- Organizational Values
- Social Support at Work
About this book
This book fills a gap in international literature by providing critical reviews on variables of organizational behavior and the main psychological instruments developed to measure them. Measuring instruments developed with theoretical and methodological rigor in the field of Organizational and Work Psychology can contribute to the development of diagnostic analyses to enable organizations to implement the evidence-based changes required for their survival. These changes demand diagnoses based on precise assessments of organizational and individual variables, but many times the professionals responsible for conducting these assessments are not sure of what is the best measuring instrument available. This book is intended to serve as a guide to these professionals.
The volume is divided in two parts. The first part brings together chapters dedicated to the following micro-organizational variables: Job Crafting, reactions to organizational change, Psychological Wellbeing at Work, Bridge Employment Assessment in the Work-Retirement Transition, Resilience at Work, and Leadership in Organizations. The second part presents the state-of-the-art of research on the following macro-organizational constructs: Quality of Life at Work, Organizational Climate for Creativity, Values and Organizations, Assessments of Organizational Support, and Contributions by Social Networks Analysis and Organizational Effectiveness. The last chapter presents a critical discussion about the nature and future of organization behavior measuring.
Assessing Organizational Behaviors: A Critical Analysis of Measuring Instruments is intended to help market professionals select the diagnostic instruments that best fit into their organizational reality in order to correctly assess organizational behavior. The book will also be of interest to researchers and students in the field of Organizational and Work Psychology as it provides comprehensive overviews of a wide range of instruments developed to measure different variables of organizational behavior.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Magno Oliveira Macambira is a professor at the State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil, and develops studies on organizational behavior and social network analysis in work context. He holds a PHD in psychology from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and is a member of the Working Group on Organizational Culture and Health at Work of the Brazilian National Association of Graduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP).
Helenides Mendonça is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, Brazil. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Brasília, Brazil, and is a post-doctoral fellow at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. Her main line of research is in psychosocial processes at work, with a priority focus on the following themes: culture and organizational justice, workers’ health, coping and well-being at work.
Maria das Graças Torres Paz is a professor in the Social, Work and Organizational Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Brasília, Brazil, and develops her teaching, research and consultancy activities in organizational and work psychology, in the following major lines: cultural profile of organizations, organizational, group and individual power, organizational justice and personal well-being in organizations, relating the variables associated to the referenced lines with the organizational management practices. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and has developed postdoctoral studies at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Assessing Organizational Behaviors
Book Subtitle: A Critical Analysis of Measuring Instruments
Editors: Magno Oliveira Macambira, Helenides Mendonça, Maria das Graças Torres Paz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81311-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81310-9Published: 14 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81313-0Published: 15 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81311-6Published: 13 December 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Human Resource Management