Business Psychology

Business Psychology comparatively a new title, is embodiment of the concepts and issues relating to individual team work and leadership interpersonal relations structure and functions of small or large national or multinational companies /organisations and integration of all these with the objective to create opportunities beyond boundaries.

Present book consists of 21 chapters classified over three parts namely (i) Business Psychology: Emerging Issues (ii) Business Psychology: Empirical Stakes and (iii) Business Psychology: Enhancement and Promotion. Each part has many valuable chapters. First part includes inputs ranging from psychological exploration of intricacies subtleties teamwork hardiness emotional intelligence and person perception as current issues in business. The interface between business and psychology is also a significant contribution in this part to broaden the horizons of psychology. Second part examines the role of different factors like professional’s obsolescence affect and emotion regulation, burnout well-being HRD climate etc. in various working groups of society and organisations. The last part is equipped with suggestions/techniques applicable to almost all types of companies or organizations to develop promote and enhance their overall growth including human resources. Editors are hopeful that book will achieve its objective and establish a light post to illuminate some shaded areas of psychology

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Amrita Yadava and Nov Rattan Sharma. I. Emerging Issues: 2. Interface between Business and Psychology/Amrita Yadava, Sushma Sharma and Nov Rattan Sharma. 3. Exploring the Intricacies and Subtleties of Business from Psychological Perspective/Maheswar Satpathy. 4. Teamwork and Psychological Attributes: Emerging Trends in Business organizations/Kavita Kapur and Anuradha Bhandari. 5. Antecedents, Correlates and Consequences of Organizational Commitment/P.C. Mishra and Swati Mishra. 6. Role of Hardiness in Business Organizations/Uma Joshi. 7. Role of Emotional Intelligence in Business Organizations/J.C. Ajawani and Anita Ajwani Agrawal. 8. Role of Person Perception in Business Organizations/S. Karunanidhi and T. Chitra. II: Empirical Stakes: 9. Professional Obsolescence in Relation to Job Involvement and Burnout/Vidhu Mohan and S.P. Chauhan. 10. Role of Affect and Emotion Regulation in Psychological Well-Being of Working Women/Sangeeta Trama and Nimisha Khanna. 11. Psychological Well-Being of Its Professionals under Recession Threat/Deepali Mittal and Madhu Mathu. 12. Occupational Stress and Organizational Commitment in Private and Government Sector Employees/O.P. Sharma and, J. Deshmukh. 13. Wellness, Distress and Organisational Role Stress among Professionals/Rajender Kumar. 14. Combating Burnout in BPO Centres/Vandana Sharma and Shama Lohumi. 15. Attitude of Students Towards Cheating /Ira Das and Suman Mishra. 16. HRD Climate in Zilla Parishads and District Rural Development Agencies/C.S. Singhal. III: Enhancement and Promotion: 17. Development of Positive Psychological Capital in Business Organisations/Deepti Hooda, Amrita Yadava and NovRattan Sharma. 18. Promoting Mental Health in Business Organizations/Vijaylaxmi A. Aminabhavi. 19. Optimization Human Potential in Business Organizations/Surila Agarwala and Satya Satvir Singh. 20. Enhancing Business Effectiveness through Organizational Change/Anis Ahmad and Fuzail Ahmad. 21. Shift Work and Stress Coping Strategies/S.P. Sinha and Shraddha Sharma. 22. Contemporary HR Model A New Strategy for Enhancing Competitiveness/Amir-ul-Hasan Ansari and Anis Ahmad. Index.