Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations

Griffin, Ricky; Phillips, Jean; Gully, Stanley

ISBN 10 : 1305501411 ISBN 13 : 9781305501416

Editeur : CENGAGE Learning Custom Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Organizational Behavior places core concepts of human behavior and industrial psychology in a real-world context. Strong end-of-chapter exercises, activities, plus an optional case and exercise book make this flexible text suitable for students at the undergraduate level. Likewise, the authors' emphasis on the latest organizational behavior research continues to attract graduate students.
The Eighth Edition features significant structural and content changes, as well as an enhanced design?with more figures and tables, cartoons with captions, and 50 new color photos?for greater ual appeal. All Opening Cases and chapter-ending OB Cases for Discussion are new, featuring companies such as Ryanair, Merrill Lynch, and the Denver Broncos. Workplaces issues, featured in several new boxed inserts, focus on five pivotal topics in the modern workplace: technology, ethics, change, diversity, and globalization. New! Reed and expanded coverage in the Eighth Edition includes an all-new Chapter 2, which addresses the changing environment of organizations; new research on emotional intelligence; combined coverage of creativity and decision making in Chapter 8; expanded coverage of leadership in Chapters 12 and 13; new content on organizational justice and power and influence in Chapter 14; and new coverage of conflict and negotiation. New! Test Preppers now appear at the end of each chapter, helping students assess their comprehension and retention of chapter concepts. Each Test Prepper offers up to 20 questions, with corresponding answers located at the end of the text. New! An end-of-part integrative case on Starbucks reflects the interdependence of OB topics, and allows students to consider the "big picture" while applying chapter concepts to the case at hand. New! A clear, concise Chapter Outline and list of Chapter Objectives at the start of each chapter help students organize their study time and better focus their learning.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dr. Ricky W. Griffin served as Distinguished Professor of Management and Blocker Chair in Business at Texas A&M. He received his PhD in organizational behavior from the University of Houston. He has worked as an editor of the Journal of Management and as an officer in the Southwest Regional Division of the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association as well as in the Research Methods Division and the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Griffin spent three years on the faculty at the University of Missouri (Columbia) before moving to Texas A&M University in 1981. His research interests include workplace violence, employee health and well-being in the workplace and workplace culture. A well-respected author recognized for his organizational behavior and management research, Dr. Griffin has written many successful textbooks, including Management," "Human Resource Management," "Management Skills," "Introduction to Business" and "International Business." He has taught executive development programs and presented seminars in over 15 countries."

Jean was among the top 5 percent of published authors in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology during the 1990s and she received the 2004 Cummings Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. She is also a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Jean has published over 30 research articles and chapters and 9 books, including Strategic Staffing," "Organizational Behavior," "Human Resource Management" and the five-book "Staffing Strategically" (2012) series for the Society for Human Resource Management. Jean was also a founding co-editor of the "Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management" book series. Her applied work includes leveraging employee surveys to enhance strategic execution and business performance, developing leadership and teamwork skills and creating and evaluating strategic recruitment and staffing programs. Jean has taught online and traditional courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in human resource management and organizational behavior in the United States, Iceland and Singapore and taught multiple executive training programs."

Dr. Stanley M. Gully was a professor of human resource management at Penn State University. Prior to joining the faculty in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State in 2014, Dr. Gully was a faculty member at Rutgers University (1998-2014) and George Mason University (1996-1998). He received his bachelor's degree from San Diego State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from Michigan State University. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 2014 and was ranked by the Academy of Management as one of the top 50 most influential scholars who received their degrees since 1991. Dr. Gully's research interests included work at the interface between training and individual differences. His publications include articles in journals such as Personnel Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He also co-authored textbooks on strategic staffing, organizational behavior and human resource management. In addition, he co-authored a series of staffing books for SHRM and co-edited the Business Expert Press series. His refereed articles and chapters have been cited more than 4,900 times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CENGAGE Learning Custom Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1305501411
• ISBN 13: 9781305501416
• Reliure: Feuillets mobiles
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible