Wirtschaftspsychologie – serie

With this reader you receive an invitation to participate in a travel into actual fields of conceptional development and empirical research in the land of psychological orientated management studies. The authors focus on different perspectives as well as specific theoretical approaches in their common concern to contribute to the understanding and improvement of organizational development: (1) the organizational level including aspects of Marketing strategies, Quality Management and Training, (2) the level of interaction between superiors and subordinates referring to the theory of Transformational Leadership and (3) an individualistic level which emphasizes the employees' personality and values. Organizational change is a challenge for organizations to develop concepts for training, learning processes in the workplace and interaction models between different hierarchical levels. At least, what is the appropriate leadership style in a changing context?

In this book various application-oriented facets are interlinked. Transnational concepts are touched upon and it is basically assumed that deviating behavioral patterns on an individual level can be pinpointed in varying contexts. The practical relevance is founded on the fact that in Latin America, few studies have been published to date that emphasize the systematic reproduction of organizational behaviour from the point of view of transformational leadership. The reference to distinctive cultural as well as regional features is delved into in much more detail whilst doing research on this topic. This is underscored by the references of numerous (Anglo-American) authors who even state that there is a paradigm shift due to the concept of transformational leadership.

Organizational behavior shows many facets. Hence, its study comprises numerous research fields. Although there are many disciplines involved in this area of research, psychology plays an important as well as outstanding role. This reader contains several extracts of the psychological view on organizational behavior and tries to contribute to its understanding and improvement. The authors focus on different perspectives and contents within this broad field. Job satisfaction, leadership or absenteeism, for example, are quite popular keywords of organizational behavior and issues that the reader will come across time and time again.

Das Ziel der Arbeit besteht darin, systematische Unterschiede zwischen Berufsgruppen hinsichtlich fluider und kristallisierter Intelligenz, Arbeitsmotivation, Innovationsbereitschaft, dem Grad der Stellenspezialisierung und verschiedenen Kommunikationswegen zu ermitteln. Es kann gezeigt werden, dass verschiedene differentialpsychologische Aspekte eine unterschiedliche Bedeutung für die Berufskategorien aufweisen. Von besonderer Wichtigkeit erweist sich die Relation zwischen fluider und kristallisierter Intelligenz innerhalb einzelner Untergruppen von Berufen. Uni- und multivariate Methoden zeigen, dass die Strukturdimensionen ebenfalls auf Grund verschiedenartiger Anforderungen in einem unterschiedlichen Ausmaß zwischen den Berufskategorien trennen. Die Basis für die empirische Untersuchung bildet eine Stichprobe von 522 in verschiedenen Berufen tätigen Personen.