Now in its Fourth Edition this highly respected text offers a definitive, multidisciplinary social science based approach to the study of organizational behaviour.
The content is academically rigorous, with an engaging an interesting style. It provides readers with concepts, theories, models and frameworks to help understand behaviour in organizations. Readers are encouraged to challenge current thinking in relation to their own ideas and experiences, exploring other perspectives. The text also shows how organizational behaviour ideas and methods apply in practical settings. Fully revised and comprehensively updated, this is an essential core text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of organizational behaviour.
The fully revised edition of this successful text offers a definitive,
multidisciplinary, social science based approach to organizational behaviour.
The content is academically rigorous, with an engaging and interesting style. It
provides readers with concepts, theories, models and frameworks to help
understand behaviour in organizations. Readers are encouraged to challenge
current thinking in relation to their own ideas and experiences, exploring other
perspectives. The text also shows how organizational behaviour ideas and methods
apply in practical settings.
Content new to this edition includes-
* the organizational context
* postmodernism and the post-modern organization
* teleworking, call centres and employee surveillance
* the learning organization
* behavioural self-modification
* emotional intelligence
* communication theory and organizational communication
* neuro-linguistic programming
* job sculpting
* teamworking trends
* contemporary applications of scientific management
* corporate strategy and organizational design
* interorganizational relationships
* network and virtual organizations
* human resource management
* the "new leadership", superleaders and dispersed leadership
Pedagogical features new to this edition include-
* Stop and criticize sections which encourage readers to adopt a
challenging, questioning, critical perspective on organizational behaviour
research and ideas.
* Home viewing and OB in literature sections to encourage students to
explore the theories, concepts and techniques of each chapter in films and
novels - an innovative way of engaging reader interest in - and developing their
understanding of - the material.
* Chapter exercises for large classes and tutorial groups. Students and
instructors will find the inclusion of these exercises a useful and cost
effective approach.
* Springboard sections, offering annotated bibliographies to advanced
reading.
* Companion Website, with extra lecturer and student resources, including
multiple choice questions, class exercise debriefing and PowerPoint slides.
Andrzej Huczynski is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at the
Department of Management Studies, University of Glasgow.
David Buchanan is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the School of
Business, De Montfort University, Leicester
