Synopsis
Behavior in Organizations, 7/e, by Shani and Lau, is a paperback text that takes a hands-on, experiential approach to organization behavior. The majority of the exercises, role-playing simulations, and cases were developed in and for management training workshops. The cases themselves represent different industries and organizations around the globe with diverse size, product, service, and cultures. Instructors appreciate the multiple interactive teaching methods for each teaching module. Experiential methods provide a powerful stimulus for learning, growth, and change by helping participants focus on their own behaviors and reactions as data. The text begins with structured, less personal exercises that are readily recognized as relevant to human effectiveness in organizational settings. Personal growth and self-understanding activities are introduced later in the text, after students have had enough experience to become more comfortable and ready for them.
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From the Publisher
New cases studies include:
Donny is My Leader, The Plafab Company: The Performance Appraisal, Task Force, Time for Change at a Suburban Health maintenance Organization, The SLO Corporation Case, The Nomura Securities International Company Case,
The Slade Planting Department Case, Dan Dunwoodies Problem
New activities include:
The Learning Model Instrument, Exploring the Meaning of Leadership,
Donny is My Leader, Three Essential Process Tools for Teams, The Big Five Locator
The experiential approach of this book has, of course, been retained. Students practice what they learn through numerous cases, involvement exercises, roleplays, and applications.
Modular design allows significant instructor freedom in course design.
There's an emphasis on bringing the type of training that supervisors, managers, and executives receive in management development programs to the university classroom.
Two new modules are:
-Organization Culture, Symbolism and Effectiveness
-Stress and the Management of Stress
About the Author
A.B. (Rami) Shani, Ph.D., Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Change at California Polytechnic University, USA, a Senior Research Fellow at the FENIX Centre and an Adjunct Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. His most recent work has focused on the theoretical and application of collaborative research in organizations, creating sustainable work systems, creating the learning organization and, action research methodologies in the pursuit of actionable knowledge creation. He is the co-author or book co-editor of Collaborative Research in Organizations: Foundations for Learning (SAGE,2004), Change and Theoretical Development; Learning by Design (Blackwell, 2003); Creating Sustainable work Systems: Emerging Perspectives and Practice (Routledge, 2003); Behavior in Organizations: An Experiential Approach, 8e (McGraw-Hill-Irwin, 2004); and Parallel Learning Structures: Creating Innovations in Bureaucracies (AW, 1990).
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