Management & Organisational
Behaviour, 7th Edition

By Laurie J. Mullins
Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
January 2005
ISBN: 0273688766
1119 Pages, Illustrated, 7 ¾" x 10 ½"
$115.00 paper original

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This book helps students of today become effective managers of tomorrow by truly understanding organizational behavior. This book is for undergraduate and graduate courses in Organizational Behavior and Management. Taking a managerial approach and demonstrating the application of behavioral science within the workplace, this text emphasizes the role of management as a core integrating activity.

This long established market leader has set standards that few texts have met in terms of accessibility of writing style and clarity of presentation, by making unfamiliar theory relevant, easily understood and logically applied to the world of work. Over the course of almost 20 years, the book has guided many thousands of students through a clear, insightful and analytical introduction to their management studies, acting as a valuable reference thereafter.

Acknowledgements
Plan of the book
PART I- MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1. Introduction
2. The Nature of Organisational Behaviour
3. Approaches to Organisation and Management
PART II- THE ORGANISATIONAL SETTING
4. The Nature of Organisations
5. Organisational Goals, Strategy and Responsibilities
PART III- THE ROLE OF THE MANAGER
6. The Nature of Management
7. Managerial Behaviour and Effectiveness
8. The Nature of Leadership
PART IV- THE INDIVIDUAL
9. Individual Differences
10. The Nature of Learning
11. The Process of Perception
12. Work Motivation and Rewards
PART V- GROUPS AND TEAMWORK
13. The Nature of Work Groups and Teams
14. Working in Groups and Teams
PART VI- ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES
15. Organisation Structure and Design
16. Patterns of Structure and Work Organisation
17. Technology and Organisations
PART VII- MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
18. Job Satisfaction and Work Performance
19. Human Resource Management
20. Resourcing the Organisation
PART VIII- ORGANISING ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE
21. Organisational Control and Power
22. Organisational Development (Culture, Conflict and Change)
23. Management Development and Organisational Effectiveness
Glossary
Index


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