Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Internationlal Edition 5ed: Global Edition - Softcover

“Riggio has provided an excellent overview of theory and research in I/O in a manner that is easy to grasp and accessible to students." - Viviane Seyranian, Whittier College

“This text book is clearly written and well structured. A number of relevant insights from the applied literature are included in an accessible manner. This provides a useful link between theory, evidence and application to real world organisations. This textbook provides a useful and well-argues treatment of relatively more abstract and difficult topics such as motivation and leadership. Overall, it is a commendable effort.”- Abhijit Sharma, Bradford University School of Management

“The book is organized in a very logical and approachable way and would make it easy to relate lecture material to. I can see my lectures and this text to work together well."- Adam Marcantel, University of Louisiana-Lafayette

Written with the student in mind, this inviting, comprehensive introduction to the field of I/O Psychology emphasizes connections between theory and practice across the full spectrum of personnel issues, worker issues, work group and organizational issues, and work environment issues. This fourth edition is thoroughly up-to-date with more than 300 new references, a new chapter expanding the topic of human factors to include occupational health psychology and consumer psychology, and expansions in sections on job analysis and employee testing and selection. Cutting-edge issues and topics such as workplace diversity, 360-degree evaluations, increasing globalization, organizational downsizing, and computerized monitoring of employee performance are included.

Pedagogical features include Stop and Review questions designed to assess student retention of material, Inside Tips that provide strategies to synthesize and study information, a statistical appendix and suggested readings for advanced student work, and Up Close sections that help students apply theories to the real world. It is easy to see why Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology is one of the leaders in the field.