1st Edition

Using Psychology in Management Training The Psychological Foundations of Management Skills

By David A. Statt Copyright 2000
215 Pages
by Routledge

Many of the fundamental principles of psychology form the basis for management training. Using Psychology in Management Training aims to give trainers and student trainers a grounding in the ideas and research findings which are most relevant to their work. Three major areas are explored from a management training perspective and illustrated with examples * the individual psychological processes... Read more

Introduction 1 Training, trainers and trainees at work PART I Individual differences 2 Learning, memory and thinking 3 Personality 4 Motivation PART II The workplace setting 5 Operating in organizations 6 Group dynamics and the training environment 7 Leadership 8 Mental health PART III The training experience 9 Communicating 10 Training needs; identifying, delivering and evaluating

Biography

David A. Statt is Director of Studies of the Graduate School International Business at the University of Bristol. He has worked as a manager, trainer and academic in Britain and the United States. His previous publications include Psychology and the World of Work (1994), Understanding the Consumer (1997), The concise Dictionary of Psychology (1998) and the Concise Dictionary of Business Management (1999).