Organizational Behavior
An Introductory Text
5th Edition
By David Buchanan & Andrzej Huczynski
Financial Times / Pearson Education
March 2004
ISBN: 0-273-68222-9
999 Pages, Illustrated, 7 ¾" x 10 ½"
$97.50 paper original
The new edition of this successful text provides students and instructors with a definitive multidisciplinary approach to organizational behavior. It provides concepts, theories, models and frameworks to help understand behavior in organizations.
Readers are encouraged to challenge current thinking critically in relation to their own ideas and experience, exploring alternative perspectives. Throughout, the text emphasizes how organizational behavior ideas and methods apply in practice. The widely-informed social science perspective and the clear, authoritative, and engaging writing style remain the same.
Most of the pedagogical features of the fourth edition have been retained, including- learning outcomes and key concepts, stop exercises, recap and revision sections, cartoons and other illustrations, annotated springboards into further reading, an updated glossary and the unique Home viewing and OB in literature ideas.
Contents
PART 1: THE ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT. 2. The world outside. 3. Technology.
PART 2:INDIVIDUALS IN THE ORGANIZATION. 4. Learning. 5. Personality. 6. Communication. 7. Perception. 8. Motivation.
PART 3: GROUPS AND TEAMS IN THE ORGANIZATION. 9. Group formation. 10. Group structure. 11. Individuals in groups. 12. Team working.
PART 4: ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES. 13. Traditional work design. 14. Elements of Structure. 15. Early organizational design. 16. Contemporary organization design
PART 5: ORGANIZATION PROCESSES. 17. Organization development. 18. Organization change. 19. Organization culture. 20. Human Resource Management.
PART 6: ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT. 21. Leadership. 22. Decision-making. 23. Managing conflict 24. Power and politics.
References. Glossary. Name Index. Subject Index.
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