The Competent Employee: Handbook of Personnel Psychology is a comprehensive guide focusing on the individual’s qualifications for the role of a capable, effective and skilled employee, factors influencing employees in this respect, and organizational best practice in recruiting, motivating and supporting high-performing employees.

Written by leading Norwegian and Scandinavian experts in their field, the book addresses topics such as: · Characteristics of skilled, capable and high-performing employees · Basic principles of effective adult learning in organizations · Clarifying expectations: Building effective psychological contracts · Evidence-based recruitment and selection: Best practices · Driving high performance: Motivation, incentives and rewards · Personality and performance: Understanding and assessing individual differences · Supporting and motivating an aging workforce · Onboarding and socializing young employees · Trauma management: Supporting employees through crisis and loss · Facing challenges and demands at work: Stress management and effective coping · Fostering high job satisfaction and work engagement · Characteristics of ethical behavior and ethical employees · Performance management: Measuring and developing talent · Maintaining individual work ability and lifelong employability This handbook is designed for students in relevant subject areas, but also for managers, HR professionals, health and safety personnel, and organizational consultants responsible for supporting, developing, motivating and protecting individual employees within organizations, as well as for individuals seeking to improve their professional capabilities.

Ståle Valvatne Einarsen is professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Bergen. His academic focus includes workplace bullying and harassment, conflict and conflict management, leadership, sickness absence, the psychosocial work environment, and creativity and innovation. Einarsen has extensive applied experience as an organizational consultant and adviser to private and public organizations.

Anders Skogstad is professor emeritus of work and organizational psychology at the University of Bergen and a specialist in work and organizational psychology (NPF). His academic focus has primarily been on psychosocial work environment factors, organizational culture, and destructive forms of leadership and workplace bullying. Skogstad has extensive applied experience as an organizational consultant.