Managing Org Behaviour - Hardcover

Coffey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0256116857 ISBN 13: 9780256116854

Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

This text combines management and organizational behaviour, and is intended to teach readers how to be effective performers within an organization, individually and as part of a team. Most of the book focuses on organizational behaviour, whilst also covering issues and practices that every manager needs to know. There are technology transformation boxes throughout the book, they include information on high-tech business, e-commerce and the Internet and they explain how these important issues affect managers and businesses. There is an inventory of the behavioural skills relevant to each chapter to help develop and emphasize these particular skills.

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Chapter on Self Management at Work (16) which includes topics of stress management, time management, and self-directed career management.
Technology Transformation boxes in each chapter includes information on high tech business, e-commerce and the Internet. These boxes also explain how these important issues affect managers and business today.
Internet exercises include web tips, world wide web searches, specific web site exercises adn discussion questions.
Interpersonal Skills Inventory: a summary of the behavioral skills relevant to each chapter are included at the end of each chapter to help develop and emphasize these skills.
Video Cases concludes each chapter. 16 new videos to accompany the book have been secured-mostly from NBC and a few pick-ups from the Management Series Videos. The video cases summarize the issues presented in these videos and raise topics for discussion.
Personal Skills Exercises conclude each chapter and provide activities that help develop specific skills and concepts presented in the chapter.
Team Exercises conclude each chapter and provide in-class exercises to help encourage students to learn from direct experiences.

Book Description

This book combines management and organizational behavior. It is intended for students to learn how to be effective performers within an organizatoin, both individually and on teams. Because organizational behavior skills are students' dominant need under this assumption, about two-thirds of the book's content is anchored in traditional and emergent OB subjects, while one-third focuses on issues and practices that every manager needs to know.

Edition details

• Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0256116857
• ISBN 13: 9780256116854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 636