Management & organizational change

Coaching Research: who? what? where? when? why? (Alex Linley, 2006)

Engagement in employee coaching: The role of managers' implicit person theory. (Peter Heslin, Don Wanderwalle, and Gary Latham, 2006)

Why Management by Facts Works (Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton, 2006)

Your company's secret change agents (Richard Tanner Pascale & Jerry Sternin, 2005)

Working Alone: What Ever Happened To The Idea Of Organizations As Communities.  (Jeffrey Pfeffer, 2005).

The cycles of theory building in management research (Paul Carlile & Clayton Christensen, 2005)

Why hard-nosed executives should care about management theory (Clayton Christensen & Michael Raynor, 2003)

Valuing Internal vs. External Knowledge: Explaining the Preference for Outsiders. Tanya Menon & Jeffrey Pfeffer, 2003).

Success rates for different types of Organizational Change (Martin Smith, 2002)

Organizational Change and Development (Karl Weick & Robert Quinn, 1999)

Faith in Supervison and the Self-enhancement Bias: Two Psychological Reasons Why Managers Don’t Empower Workers. (Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert Cialdini, 1998).

Psychology

Self-determination theory and well-being (Richard Ryan, 2009)

Self-Determination Theory: A Macrotheory of Human Motivation, Development, and Health (Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan, 2008)

Can Personality be Changed? The Role of Beliefs in Personality and Change - (Carol Dweck, 2008)

The secret to raising smart kids (Carol Dweck, 2007)

What have we been priming all these years? On the development, mechanisms, and ecology of nonconscious social behavior (John Bargh, 2006)

Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social cognitive neuroscience model (Jennifer Mangels, Brady Butterfield, Justin Lamb, Catherine Good, and Carol S. Dweck), 2006

A Theory of Unconscious Thought (Ap Dijksterhuis & Loran F. Nordgren, 2006

On Racial Diversity and Group Decision Making: Identifying Multiple Effects of Racial Composition on Jury Deliberations (Samuel R. Sommers, 2006).

Positive Psychology (Lectures series by Harvard University professor Tal Ben-Shachar and others, 2006)

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING AND SELF–DETERMINATION THEORY (DAVID MARKLAND, RICHARD M. RYAN, VANNESSA JAYNE TOBIN, & STEPHEN ROLLNICK, 2005)

The Pleasures of Uncertainty: Prolonging Positive Moods in Ways People Do Not Anticipate (Timothy Wilson & Daniel Gilbert, 2005)

The cultural malleability of intelligence and its impact on the racial/ethnic hierarchy (Lisa Suzuki and Joshua Aronson, 2005)

Relationships, layoffs, and organizational resilience: airline industry responses to september 11th. (Jody Hoffer Gittel, Kim Cameron & Sandy Lim, 2005).

The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success? (Sonja Lyubomirsky, Laura King & Ed Diener, 2005)

Think different: The merits of unconscious thought in preference development and decision making (Ap Dijksterhuis, 2004)

The ups and downs of attributional ambiguity: Stereotype vulnerability and the academic self-knowledge of African American college students (Joshua Aronson and Michael Inzlicht, 2004)

The threat of stereotype (Joshua Aronson, 2004)

Words of Wisdom: Language Use Over the Life Span (James W. Pennebaker and Lori D. Stone, 2003)

The dark side of self-esteem: examining the relation between overly positive self-perceptions and aggressive behavior in adolescents. (Kit B. Hofman, 2003).

Counting Blessings Versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation of Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being in Daily Life (Richard Emmons and Michael McCullough, 2003).

The perception-behavior expressway: Automatic effects of social perception on social behavior (Ap Dijksterhuis & John Bargh, 2001).

The relation between perception and behavior, or how to win a game of trivial pursuit (Ap Dijksterhuis & Ad van Knippenberg, 1998)

The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance. (K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Romer, 1993).

Behavioral Economics

Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion (Daniel Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger, David Schkade, Norbert Schwartz, Arthur A. Stone, 2006)

Economics language and assumptions: How theories can become self-fulfilling (Fabrizio Ferraro, Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert Sutton, 2005).

A puzzle for adaptive theory (Richard Easterlin, 2005)

Building a Better Theory of Well-being (Richard Easterlin, 2003)

Maps of bounded rationality: a perspective on intuitive judgement and choice Prize lecture. (Daniel Kahneman, 2002).

Networks and complexity

The Strength of weak ties: A network theory revisited (Mark Granovetter, 1983)

The solution-focused approach

Question Utilization in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Recursive Frame Analysis of Insoo Kim Berg’s Solution Talk (Jeffrey Cotton, 2010)The Smallest Solution Focused Particles: Towards a Minimalist Definition of When Therapy is Solution Focused (Bliss, E. V. & Bray, D., 2009)

Using Microanalysis of Communication to Compare Solution-focused and Client-Centered Therapies (Christine Tomori and Janet Beavin Bavelas, 2007)

Solution-focused work in individual academic development (Marcia Devlin, 2006).

Applying the principles and techniques of solution-focused therapy to career counselling (REBECCA BURWELL & CHARLES P. CHEN, 2006)

Cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused life coaching: Enhancing goal striving, well-being, and hope (L. S. Green;  L. G. Oades; A. M. Grant, 2006). 

Using solution focused brief therapy in individual referrals for bullying (abstract) (Sue Young and Gail Holdorf, 2003).

A solution-focused model for improving individual university teaching (abstract) (Marcia Devlin, 2003).

Nurses' communication skills: an evaluation of the impact of solution-focused communication training (abstract) (Nick Bowles, Carolyn Mackintosh and Alison Torn, 2001). 

The Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Therapy With Children in a School Setting (abstract) (Cynthia Franklin, Joan Biever, Kelly Moore, David Clemons, and Monica Scamardo, 2001).

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Review of the Outcome Research  (abstract) (Wallace Gingerich and Sheri Eisengart, 2000).