askepticshrdictionary
A skeptics HR Dictionary backcover

The book is about the many HR theories, models, questionnaires and practices. Many of them lack any scientific background. But in this book valid alternatives are offered.

Why should you buy it?

#1

ONE STOP. Excellent, comprehensive guide to the most important theories, models, practices, and questionnaires in I/O psychology and human resources. This book rejoins the tradition of debunking outdated theories, fads, and urban myths, while simultaneously offering sound alternatives.

#2

BEST BUY. For the price of 125 euros, this book offers 55 (scientific) literature reviews—compare that to the price of a single systematic review, which on average costs between 10 and 35 euros!

#3

At last, the book behind the phenomenal TED talk promoting science-based Human Resources! The ultimate (self-defense) guide for CEOs, HR professionals, I/O students, and employees.

 

List of concepts and theories covered in the book

  • The Leadership Circle

  • Leadership development

  • Learning styles

  • Left brain, right brain

  • Management drives

  • Manager-as-a-coach

  • Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

  • MBTI - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

  • Mindfulness

  • Neurofeedback

  • NLP - Neurolinguistic Programming

  • Mehrabian’s Rule (7-38-55)

  • Motivation

  • Neurofeedback

  • Organizational Constellations

  • Pay gaps (horizontal, vertical)

  • Performance Ratings & Forced Ranking

  • PFP - Pay-for-performance

  • Positive Psychology (Grit, Flow, resilience, happiness)

  • Psychological safety

  • ProMES

  • Time-management

  • The Interpersonal Circumplex

  • Rank-order Tournaments

  • Recruitment

  • Self-Determination Theory

  • Self-Managing Teams

  • Self-persuasion

  • Sex differences

  • Situational Leadership

  • SMART goals

  • Speed reading

  • Spiral dynamics

  • Systematic reflection - AAR & AER

  • Team Wheel

  • Transactional analysis

  • 5FM and 6FM model of personality

  • 70:20:10

  • Alpha training

  • Artificial intelligence

  • Balanced Scorecard

  • Belbin team roles

  • Biology x environment

  • Brain scans for recruitment

  • CBC - Cognitive-Behavioral Coaching

  • Change myths

  • Change: process and EB interventions

  • Coaching myths

  • Coalitional psychology

  • Compete or collaborate?

  • CVF - Competing Values Framework

  • Creativity training

  • DIAMONDS

  • DiSC, DISCUS

  • Discovery learning

  • Dodo Bird verdict

  • Drives or meta-motives

  • E-learning & MOOCs

  • Emotions

  • Enneagram

  • Equicoaching (horses)

  • Evolutionary psychology

  • Feedback

  • Goal Setting

  • Graphology

  • GROW

  • HBDI - Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument

  • Holacracy & Leaderless organizations

  • HR-analytics

  • Insights Discovery

  • Integral leadership

  • Intelligence, Gma, IQ