Organizational Behavior: Key Concepts, Skills & Best Practices
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9780073381411
- ISBN10:
0073381411
- Edition: 4th
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008-09-24
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Summary
In addition to facilitating active learning, Organizational Behavior: Key Concepts, Skills & Best Practices meets the needs of those instructors looking for a brief, paperback text for their OB course, who do not want to sacrifice content or pedagogy. This book provides lean and efficient coverage of topics such as diversity in organizations, ethics, and globalization, which are recommended by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). Timely chapter-opening vignettes, interactive exercises integrated into each chapter, practical boxes titled "Skills & Best Practices," four-color presentation, lively writing style, captioned color photos, cartoons, and real-world in-text examples make Organizational Behavior: Key Concepts, Skills & Best Practices the right choice for today's business/management student. The topical flow of this 16-chapter text goes from micro (individuals) to macro (groups, teams, and organizations). Mixing and matching chapters and topics within chapters in various combinations is possible and encouraged to create optimum teaching/learning experiences.
Table of Contents
| Managing People in a Global Economy | |
| Needed: People-Centered Managers and Workplaces Ethics Learning Module: Fines and Jail Time Await Unethical Contractors and U.S. Officials | |
| Organizational Culture, Socialization, and Mentoring | |
| Developing Global Managers | |
| Managing Individuals | |
| Understanding Social Perception and Managing Diversity | |
| Appreciating Individual Differences: Self-Concept, Personality, Attitudes, and Emotions | |
| Motivation I: Needs, Job Design, and Satisfaction | |
| Motivation II: Equity, Expectancy, and Goal Setting | |
| Improving Performance with Feedback, Rewards, and Positive Reinforcement | |
| Making Decisions and Managing Social Processes | |
| Effective Groups and Teamwork | |
| Making Decisions | |
| Managing Conflict and Negotiating | |
| Managing Organizational Processes | |
| Communicating in the Digital Age | |
| Influence, Power, and Politics: An Organizational Survival Kit | |
| Leadership Fourteenrt Five: Managing Evolving Organizations | |
| Designing Effective Organizations | |
| Managing Change and Organizational Learning | |
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