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Check out the recommended reading for Management Psychology, Occupational Psychology, and Work and Organisational Psychology

We are often asked to recommend some introductory reference books for new students on our courses. Here are some suggestions which provide a good introduction to the subject areas we teach and to our research interests.

It is not recommended that you buy, or even read, all of these: there is much overlap in the material they cover and some of them are quite expensive. However, reading through a well-chosen few should give you some useful background material. You should also be able to access these books from our libraries when you arrive.  

Recommended purchase 

• Work psychology: Understanding human behaviour in the workplace; John Arnold, Iain Coyne, Ray Randall and Fiona Patterson 

This book provides a really good coverage of the key areas theoretical knowledge in occupational psychology and combines this with insights about how these areas are applied in practice. For this reason, it is our recommended text.  

Other books 

• Work and Occupational Psychology: Integrating Theory and Practice; Rachel Lewis and Lara Zibarras 

• Management Consulting: A guide for students; David Biggs 

• The psychology of behaviour at work; Adrian Furnham (Available online) 

• Organisational Behaviour: An Introductory Text; Andrzej A. Huczynski and David A. Buchanan 

• The Psychology of Work and Organisations, 2nd edition; S.A. Woods and M.A. West 

As part of the course you'll cover research methods and applied statistics, here are some basic books you may find useful if you want to prepare: 

• Research methods and statistics in psychology; Hugh Coolican 

• Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics; Andy P. Field 

• Qualitative Research, David Silverman 

Websites 

You may find it helpful to view the following websites: 

• Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)  

• American Psychological Association (APA) 

• Association of Business Psychologists (ABP) 

• British Psychological Society (BPS) 

• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)  

• European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EA-OHP) 

• European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU OSHA) 

• Health and Safety Executive: Work-related stress 

• Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP) 

• The Work Foundation  

• US National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH)  

 Videos 

You may also find it helpful to watch some of these videos: 

• BPS Pioneers of Occupational Psychology Series 

• BPS Division of Occupational Psychology Conference 2019  

• BPS Annual Conference 2018 – John Antonakis on Charismatic Leadership 

• BPS Occupational Psychology YouTube playlist