Organizational Psychology and Evidence-based Management ― What Science Says About Practice

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
  

Elaine Rabelo Neiva is a professor of the graduate program in Social, Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. She has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Brasilia, with a split PhD period at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and postdoctoral studies at the Columbia University, USA. Professor Neiva is a member of the International Association for Applied Psychology and her main research interests are organizational change, organizational analysis and diagnosis, social network and power in organizations.

Claudio Vaz Torres is a professor of the graduate program in Social, Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. He has a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, USA, with postdoctoral studies in Marketing at Griffith University, Australia; in Cross Cultural Research at the University of Sussex, England; and in Cross Cultural Psychology and Human Values at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Torres is a member of the International Association for Cross Cultural Psychology and reviewer of the following journals: Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology (JCCP) and International Journal of Intercultural Research (IJIR). His main research interests are cross cultural psychology, consumer psychology and diversity on organizations.

Helenides Mendonca  is professor of the graduate program in Psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goias, Brazil. She has PhD in Psychology from the University of Brasilia, Brasil, with postdoctoral studies at the University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Her main research interests are well-being, creativity and innovative work behavior and its relationships with personal resources (employee mindfulness and coping), organizational resources and performance.