Understanding Adaptability, Volume 6
Subtitle: A Prerequisite for Effective Performance within Complex Environments (Advances in Human Performance and Cognitive Engineering Research)
Contributors: C. Shawn Burke (Editor); Linda G. Pierce (Editor); Eduardo Salas (Editor)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: April 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780762312481
Subjects: Occupational & industrial psychology; Industrial & Organizational Psychology; Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Occupational & Industrial Psychology; Psychology : Experimental Psychology; Adaptability (Psychology); Organizational effectiveness; Teams in the workplace
First sentence: In terms of biological survival, seemingly inconsequential random differences in genetic makeup may very well explain why some organisms successfully adapt to changes in the environment and why others fail (Gould, 1989).