Organizational Psychology and Evidence-Based Management

Adopting an Evidence-Based Management (EBM) approach, this book provides the best evidence available on a wide range of topics from Industrial and Organizational Psychology to help managers base their decisions on scientific findings. Drawing on principles and methods first developed by Evidence-Based Medicine, EBM aims to promote the use of scientific knowledge in organizational and managerial decision making. Based on this idea, the book seeks to establish a dialogue between researchers and professionals of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Management fields, translating scientific knowledge into useful resources that can be used to inform practitioner s decisions and interventions in topics such as:

• Creativity in organizations
  
• Optimism and hope
  
• Engagement at work
  
• Life and career planning
  
• Entrepreneurship
  
• Innovation in organizations
  
• Cultural diversity and inclusion in organizations
  
• Social networks
  
• Ageing at organizational context
  
• Work/life balance
  
• Positive rule breaking
  
• Expatriation
  
• Time pressure, Pacing styles and polychronicity
  

Chapter 1. Introduction: The gap between research and professional practice in work and organizational psychology: tensions, beliefs and options. - Chapter 2. Creativity at work: trends and perspectives. - Chapter 3. Optimism and Hope in Work Organizations. - Chapter 4. Work engagement. - Chapter 5. Ageing in Brazil and Portugal and its impact on the organizational context. - Chapter 6. Life and Career Planning: current challenges. - Chapter 7. Work/life balance in a scenario of Brazilian change: Theoretical aspects and possibilities of interventions. - Chapter 8. The Psychology of Entrepreneurship. - Chapter 9. Innovation in organizations: main research results and their practical implications. - Chapter 10. Positive rule breaking and implications for organizations. - Chapter 11. Time Pressure, Pacing Styles and Polychronicity: Implications for Organizational Management. - Chapter 12. Cultural diversity and inclusion in organizations: State-of-the-arts and challenges. - Chapter 13. Social network analysis in organizations as management support tool. - Chapter 14. Expatriates: The multinationality of multinational and national firms.