Most organizations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished performance. The authors argue that the responsibility for this critical alignment lies with corporate headquarters. In this book, the authors appl…
1. Introduction to the Field of Organizational BehaviorIndividual Behavior and Processes2. Individual Behavior, Personality, and Values3. Perceiving Ourselves and Others in Organizations4. Workplace Emotions, Attitudes, and Stress5. Foundations of Employee Motivation6. Applied Performance Practices7. Decisions Making and CreativityTeam Processes8. Team Dynamics9. Communicating in Teams and Orga…
Table Of Contents : Part 1. Introduction Chapter 1. Introduction to the Field of Organizational Behavior Part 2. Individual Behavior and Processes Chapter 2. Individual Behavior, Personality, and Values Chapter 3. Perception and Learning in Organizations Chapter 4. Workplace Emotions, Attitudes, and Stress Chapter 5. Foundations of Employee Motivation Chapter 6. Applied Performance …
The world’s most successful Organizational Behavior textbook provides the research you want, in the language your students understand. This text makes current, relevant research come alive for readers. The 18th Edition reflects the most recent research and business events within the field of organizational behavior, while maintaining its hallmark features -- a clear writing style, cutting-edg…
Meta-analysis has become a critically important tool in fields as diverse as medicine, pharmacology, epidemiology, education, psychology, business, and ecology. Introduction to Meta-Analysis: Outlines the role of meta-analysis in the research process Shows how to compute effects sizes and treatment effects Explains the fixed-effect and random-effects models for synthesizing dat…
Culture. We blithely use the term for just about anything--a vibrant culture, a dominant culture, a corporate culture. But do we really know what we're saying, what culture really means? Or do we most often assume that the term is just a convenient way to group those with a common purpose or goal and a method for achieving it? Isn't a corporate culture, for example, just "the way we do things a…
Table Of Contents: Unit 1. Intrapersonal Effectiveness: Understanding Yourself Chapter 1. Journey into Self-awareness Chapter 2. Self-disclosure and trust Chaoter 3. Self-management Unit 2. Interpersonal Effectiveness: Understanding and Working with Others Chapter 5. Understanding and Working with Diverse others Chapter 6. The Importance and Skill of Listening Chapter 7. Conveying V…
This volume deals with the beginning of a new era in the theory of strategic management. New concepts and techniques are developed and the fundamentals of the content and the process of strategic management are questioned in depth. Using a resource-based perspective, the concept of core competence allows a proactive construction of competence, perceives competence as spanning multiple businesse…
Table Of Contents: Part 1. Introduction Chapter 1. Economics: foundations and models Chapter 2. Trade-Off, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System Chapter 3. Where Prices Come From: the interaction of demand and supply Chapter 4. Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes Part 2. Markets in Action Chapter 5. Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods Ch…