Personnel Psychology (Second Edition)

Author: Yu Wenzhao, Su Yonghua
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Chapter 1 of this book elaborates on the nature and positioning of personnel psychology. It also analyzes the development background of personnel psychology from the perspectives of human-centered management and humanized management. Additionally, it explains the significance and principles of the necessary alignment between people and tasks. Chapter 2 highlights differential psychology as the main theoretical foundation of personnel psychology, elaborating on theories of personality type differences, psychological quality differences, managerial ability differences, and the matching of different positions. Chapters 3 and 4 thoroughly discuss the content of job analysis and human resource planning. Chapters 5 and 6. Recruitment and selection are two important stages in the recruitment process. While recruitment, selection, and hiring are distinct concepts, they are also interconnected. In actual personnel assessment work, the methods used in hiring and selection are identical. Through the theoretical learning and case analyses in these two chapters, readers can effectively master practical work methods. Chapter 7 introduces the content of compensation theory and includes typical case analyses. Chapter 8, "Personnel Assessment," becomes more operational due to the inclusion of detailed case analyses of managerial evaluations. Chapter 9 adds two sections: "Decision-Making Technology Training" and "Meeting Facilitation Training." Through practical exercises in these two training programs, readers gain not only a rational understanding of training but also enriched practical operational knowledge. The newly added Chapter 10 discusses the main principles of personnel assessment and related key issues, while also introducing the advantages and disadvantages of the three commonly used methods in personnel assessment and recent advancements in assessment methods. In the second edition, three chapters—Introduction to Personnel Psychology, Theoretical Foundations of Personnel Psychology, and Modern Personnel Assessment—are added. Through these three chapters, readers gain a comprehensive, systematic, and in-depth understanding of the nature of personnel psychology, its theoretical foundations, and the principles and recent advancements in modern personnel assessment methods. Other chapters have also been updated and revised to varying degrees, and it is believed that they will be more readily accepted by readers.
(Note: The original text contains some minor inconsistencies and repetitions, which have been corrected for clarity in the translation.)