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7 Steps to Effective Executive Coaching A Buddhist Psychology A Guide to Coaching and Mental Health Art of Inspired Living: Coach Yourself with Positive Psychology Authentic Happiness Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training Behavioral Coaching: Building Sustainable Personal and Organizational Strengths Coach Yourself: It's Your Life, What are You Going to Do with It? Coaching the Team at Work Coaching, Mentoring and Consultancy Constructing Stories, Telling Tales: A Guide to Formulation in Applied Psychology Creativity Excellence in Coaching Executive Coaching: Systems Psychodynamic Perspective Integrative Approaches to Supervision Leadership Coaching From Personal Insight to Organisational Performance Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life Positive Psychology Positive Psychology in Practice Psychological Dimensions to Executive Coaching Psychology Short Notes from the Long History of Happiness Snakes in suits: when psychopaths go to work Stumbling on Happiness Supervision in the Helping Professions The Handbook of Coaching Psychology - A Guide for Practitioners The Interpreted World: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology The Modern Scientist-practitioner The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning The Psychology of Executive Coaching: Theory and Application Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice Total Life coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to enhance your practice... and your life Who moved my blackberry? Work, Happiness and Unhappiness - Warr, Peter B. Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment of happiness, and combines environmental and person-based themes to explain differences in people's experience. A framework of key job characteristics is linked to an account of primary mental processes, and those are set within a summary of demographic, cultural, and occupational patterns. Consequences of happiness or unhappiness for individuals and groups are also reviewed, as is recent literature on unemployment and retirement. Although primarily focusing on job situations, the book shows that processes of happiness are similar across settings of all kinds. It provides a uniquely comprehensive assessment of research published across the world. Initial chapters explore the several meanings of happiness and the ways in which those have been measured by psychologists. The construct includes pleasure, satisfaction and subjective well-being, and unhappiness has been studied in terms of dissatisfaction, strain, anxiety, and depression. The impacts of principal environmental features on these experiences are reviewed through an analogy with vitamins in relation to physical health - beneficial only up to a point. However, environmental effects are not fixed. Influences on happiness from within the person are examined in terms of principal thinking patterns, personality styles, and cultural backgrounds. Differences are explored between groups (men and women, older and younger people, employees who are full-time and part-time, and so on), and processes of person-environment fit are placed within an overall framework which emphasizes the impact of variations in personal salience. The book is written primarily for academic readers, including senior undergraduates, graduate students, teachers, and researchers in fields of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Management, Human Resources, and Labor Studies. However, the topic's centrality in many professions makes it important also to a wider readership. If you are a member, you can discuss this book in the 'Bookworms' Book Club Forum Here 
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