Top Business Psychology Models: 50 Transforming Ideas for Leaders, Consultants and Coaches

In this Book

• What Makes People do Things?— Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• How Can we Become More Engaged With Work?— Flow
• How Can People Develop their Self-Awareness?— Mindfulness
• Helping Others to Set Goals— The GROW Model
• How Can People Learn to Become More Optimistic?— Learned Optimism
• Why Did they do that?— Attribution Theory
• How Can we Make Sense of Who we are?— Personality Trait and Type Theory
• How Does Psychological Testing Work?— Psychometrics
• How do we Think About Others Thinking?— Theory of Mind and Emotional Intelligence
• How Can we Manage Our Negative Thinking?— Cognitive Behavioural Model
• How Can Job Performance be Accurately and Fairly Assessed?— Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scales (BARS)
• How do People Cope With Change?— Phases of Change Models
• How do we Understand Different Types of People?— Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• How do we Know if Someone is Telling Us a Lie?— Facial Displays
• How Can People Understand and Build on their Strengths?— Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS)
• What Can Employers do to Improve the Mood and Commitment of their Staff?— Psychological Capital
• How to Help People Cope Well with Change— Three Phases of Transition
• Where Does Motivation Come From?— Self-Determination Theory
• How Can we Rely on Psychometric Tests?— Reliability and Validity
• How Can People Change their Behaviours?— Transtheoretical Model of Change
• How do People Positively Handle Trauma?— Post-Traumatic Growth Theory
• How Can People Develop their Capacity to Cope With Adversity?— Resilience
• Do People Work Harder if You Give them More Attention?— The Hawthorne Effect
• Do the Assumptions that Managers Have About People Affect How they do their Work?— Theory X and Theory Y
• Do Groups Always Make the Best Decisions?— Groupthink
• What Behaviours Improve Team Performance?— Belbin Team Roles
• Does an Attractive Communicator Influence Our Decision Making?— Attractiveness Theory
• How to Use Goal Setting to Enhance Performance— Goal-Setting Theory
• Why do People Obey Authority Figures Even When they are Being Asked to do Something they Know is Wrong?— Obedience to Authority Theory
• How Can You Select the Best Candidate at an Interview?— Behavioural Interviewing
• How do People Make Up Our Minds?— Majority and Minority Influence
• How Can we Positively Help People and Teams Change?— The Skilled Helper Model
• How does Shift Work Impact on How Well People do their Work?— Circadian Rhythms and Performance at Work
• How do Groups Develop to Become Effective?— Tuckman's Group Development
• How Can You Ensure Everyone Makes a Fair Contribution to Team Goals?— Social Loafing Theory
• How do You Get Good Outcomes for Both Sides in a Negotiation?— Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)
• How do I Make Decisions in a Complex World?— Cynefin Complexity Model
• How Can we Specify the Behaviours Required to Perform a Task Well?— Critical Incident Technique
• How Useful are Positive Emotions?— Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions
• What Can Organizations do to Transform the Way they Think and Act?— Appreciative Inquiry
• How do People's Expectations of their Employers Affect the Way they Work?— Psychological Contract
• What Can You do to Make Training a Good Investment?— Social Learning Theory
• How do I Take Account of the Forces for and Against Change?— Force Field Analysis
• How Can You Make a Workplace Fair?— Organizational Justice
• How do You Tackle Difficult People at Work?— Managing Difficult People
• How do People Really Make Decisions?— The Bounded Rationality Model of Decision Making
• How Can Good Conversations Change Organizations?— Conversational Approaches to Change
• How Can Metaphors Help Managers Change their Organizations?— Organizational Metaphors
• How Can You Make Work Less Stressful?— The Vitamin Model of Stress
• What Can we do to Make Our Writing More Readable?— FOG Index of Readability