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This milestone Handbook brings together an impressive collection of international contributions on micro research in Organizational Behavior. Focusing on core micro Organizational Behavior issues, chapters cover key themes such as individual and group behaviour. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior Volumes I provides students and scholars with an insightful and wide reaching survey of the current state of the field and is an indespensible road map to the subject area. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior Volume II will publish in November 2008. Edited by Stewart R Clegg and Cary L Cooper this Handbook draws together contributions from leading macro Organizational Behavior scholars.
Psychology of Workplace Safety: A Thematic Review and Some Possibilities1
Psychology of Workplace Safety: A Thematic Review and Some Possibilities1
The prevalence of workplace injuries and fatalities suggests that safety in organizations should be a primary concern for both organizational researchers and practitioners. In calculating occupational injuries in 175 countries worldwide, Hämäläinen and colleagues (2006) estimated that 264 million workplace injuries occurred in 1998, with more than 700,000 workers a day suffering a workplace injury causing absence of three days or more.
Given such overwhelming statistics, it is not surprising that workplace safety has captured the attention of researchers from a range of social scientific and biomedi-cal disciplines connected to organizational behavior. For example, social and applied psychologists have examined how various individual, group, and organizational factors ...
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