Download PDF Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior SIXTH EDITION by Jennifer M. George

Sinopsis

In the sixth edition of Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior, we keep to our theme of providing students with the most contemporary and up-to-date account of the changing issues involved in managing people in organizations. In revising this book, we have continued our focus on making our text relevent and interesting to students—something we have learned from feedback received from instructors who tell us the text engages students and encourages them to make the effort necessary to assimilate the text material. We continue to mirror the changes taking place in the real world of work by incorporating recent developments in organizational behavior and research and by providing vivid, current examples of the way managers and employees of companies large and small have responded to the changing workplace. Indeed, we have increased our focus on small businesses and startups and the organizational behavior challenges their employees face.

The number and complexity of the organizational and human resource challenges facing managers and employees at all levels has continued to increase over time, especially because of today’s hard economic times. In most companies, managers and employees are playing “catch-up” as organizations work to meet these challenges by employing fewer employees and implementing new and improved organizational behavior techniques and practices to increase performance. Today, relatively small differences in performance between companies, for example, in the speed at which they can bring new products to market, or in the ways they motivate their employees to find ways to reduce costs or improve customer service, can combine to give one company a competitive edge over another. Managers and companies that utilize proven organizational behavior (OB) techniques and practices in their decision making increase their effectiveness over time. Companies and managers that are slower to implement new OB techniques and practices find themselves at a growing competitive disadvantage, especially because their best employees often depart to join faster-growing companies.

Our challenge in revising Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior has been to incorporate and integrate the latest advances in theorizing and research and provide a thorough and contemporary account of the factors that influence organizational behavior. Importantly, we strived to convey this knowledge to students in a very readable, applied, hands-on format to increase their understanding and enjoyment of the learning process.

Content

1. Introduction to Organizational Behavior
2. Individual Differences: Personality and Ability
3. Values, Attitudes, and Moods and Emotions
4. Perception, Attribution, and the Management of Diversity
5. Learning and Creativity
6. The Nature of Work Motivation
7. Creating a Motivating Work Setting
8. Pay, Careers, and Changing Employment Relationships
9. Managing Stress and Work-Life Balance
10. The Nature of Work Groups and Teams
11. Effective Work Groups and Teams
12. Leaders and Leadership
13. Power, Politics, Conflict, and Negotiation
14. Communicating Effectively in Organizations
15. Decision Making and Organizational Learning
16. Organizational Design and Structure 
17. Organizational Culture and Ethical Behavior
18. Organizational Change and Development

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