Following on from Dr John McGurk’s recent webinar on social science insights for HR, we share the reading list from the webinar.
The list falls into the following five categories:
Economics
50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know: your really need to know, Edmund Conway
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, Richard Thaler
Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful, Daniel Hamermesh
Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom, Catherine Hakim
Personnel Economics for Managers, Edward Lazear
Anthropolgy and sociology
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation, Richard Sennettt
Ethnography and employment
Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell
Organisational stupidity
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger, Fintan O’Toole
A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organizations, Alvesson and Spicer
Sociometrics
Knowledge Mobilization Through Social Ties: The Cost-Benefit Analysis, Fliaster and Spiess 2008
Sociometrics and the spatial representation of relationships, Bahbouh, forthcoming this year
