Organizational Behavior

Used by over 600 colleges worldwide, this highly reputable text continues to provide the most comprehensive, reality-based review of organizational behavior of its kind. Fully engaging students with its lively, conversational style, it helps students explain and predict behavior in organizations?pivoting discussions around three levels of analysis: the individual, the group, and the organization system. Now 120 pages shorter than the last edition.

Features

• NEW?Contemporary content?E.g. Hudson Institutes' Workforce 2020 report, organizational-citizenship behavior, emotions, trust, low and high context cultures.
• • Provides students with an up-to-date review of emotions' literature.
• NEW?Myth or Science boxes.
• • Provides students with behavioral research that offers a means for testing the validity of common-sense notions.
• NEW?New/revised Point-Counterpoint dialogues.
• • Provides students with opposing points of view of contemporary issues.
• NEW?Internet search exercises.
• • Helps students learn about resources available so that they can use them to answer organizational behavior-related questions.
• Technology?The text includes a free CD-ROM, a PHLIP Companion Website and WebCT/Blackboard on line courses.
• Assessible writing style.
• • Provides students with information presented in an interesting, understandable format that enhances the learning experience.
• Current, real-world examples.
• • Helps students understand and remember concepts.
• Comprehensive literature coverage.
• • Provides students with the most complete and up-to-date review of organizational behavior.
• Three-level model of analysis.
• • Provides students with a logical and straightforward approach to individual, group and organization behavior.
• Globalization, diversity and ethics.
• • Provides students with an integrated approach that ties the issues to organizational behavior and reinforces their importance.
• Concepts to Skills boxes.
• • Provides students with skill building opportunities that demonstrate the linkage between organizational behavior concepts and skill applications.
• Extensive pedagogy?Review and critical thinking questions, point-counterpoint debates, team exercises, ethical dilemma exercises, Internet searches, case incidences and video cases.
• • Provides students with the most complete assortment of learning aids found in an organizational behavior text.

Contents

I. INTRODUCTION.

II. THE INDIVIDUAL.

III. THE GROUP.

IV. THE ORGANIZATION SYSTEM.

V. ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS.