Organizational Behavior, plus MyManagementLab with Pearson eText:Global Edition

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Features

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Organizational Behavior.

Captivate the class with a clear writing style, cutting-edge content, and compelling pedagogy. 

Robbins/Judge provides the research you want, in the language your students understand. This text continues its tradition of making current, relevant research come alive for students.

The Robbins Brand-Getting More than Just a Name. If you want an MP3 player, you buy an iPod. If you want a pair of sneakers, you buy Nike. If you want an organizational behavior textbook you adopt the latest from Robbins–the best-selling author of management and organizational behavior texts. There’s a reason why Robbins textbooks have educated millions of students and have been translated into twenty languages–and it’s because of a commitment that provides the kind of engaging, cutting-edge material that helps students understand and connect with Organizational Behavior. 

Helping Students Assess Their Knowledge, Beliefs, Feelings, and Actions: The Self-Assessment Library (S.A.L). One of the hallmarks of the Robbins franchise is S.A.L–a learning tool that offers students a unique experience by allowing them to assess their knowledge, beliefs, feelings, and actions in regard to a wide range of personal skills, abilities, and interests. Self-Assessments have been integrated into each chapter, and also included in mymanagementlab.  S.A.L. helps students better understand their interpersonal and behavioral skills as they relate to the theoretical concepts presented in each chapter. Highlights include:

• Sixty-eight Research-based Self-Assessments. This entire collection of sixty-eight self-assessments are from sources such asJournal of Social Behavior and Personality, Harvard Business Review, Organizational Behavior: Experiences and Cases, Journal of Experimental Education, Journal of Applied Measurement, and more.
• Work—life and career focused.
• All self-assessments are focused to help individuals better manage their work lives or careers. Organized in four parts, these instruments offer you one source from which to learn more about yourself.
• Choice of Formats. The Prentice Hall Self-Assessment Library is available in either CD-ROM, online, or print format.
• Save Feature. Students can take the self-assessments an unlimited number of times, and save and print their scores for class discussion.
• Scoring Key. The key to the self-assessments has been edited by Stephen P. Robbins to allow students to quickly make sense of their results.
• Instructor’s Manual. An Instructor’s Manual guides instructors in interpreting self-assessments and helps facilitate better classroom discussion.
  

Stocking up on Resources-A Full Supplement Package. Create a seamless learning experience between the textbook’s material and homework/lecture, with a full package of supplements, specifically designed to enhance the classroom experience. The resources available with this text provide access to: 

• Instructors Manual, revised for this edition to provide the latest ideas/practices in OB.
• A Test Item File with over 500 new questions!
• TestGen Software containing all the material from the Test Item File. 
• A ready-to-use PowerPoint Presentation. 
• A library of the images used throughout the text.
• mymanagementlab
• Pearson Cinema clips
• New Company video clips

New to this Edition

NEW! Offering new and updated content and material:

The following sections of each chapter include new material:

• Opening Vignettes
• Myth or Science?
• Ethical Choice
• Point/Counterpoint
• Case Incident

The following material has been substantially revised and updated:

• Case Incident (those not entirely new have been revised and updated)
• OB Poll (more than half are new to 15e)
• Ethical Dilemma (more than half are new to 15e)
• Photos/captions (more than half are new to 15e)

NEW! Going global:

• glOBalization! is a new feature that highlights organizational behavior in an international context.
• Improved integration of global implications: With the explosion of international research, global OB research is now woven into each chapter, rather than in a stand-alone section at the end of the chapter.

NEW! Highlighting context: The Summary and Implications for Managers section has been revised, placing a greater focus on practical ways to apply the material on the job.

NEW! Seeing the concepts in action: Videos. These up-to-date videos show management topics in action. Access to the complete management video library—as well as instructional materials for integrating clips from popular movies into your class—is available at mymanagementlab.com.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is Organizational Behavior? 
Part 2: The Individual
Chapter 2: Diversity in Organizations 
Chapter 3: Attitudes and Job Satisfaction 
Chapter 4: Emotions and Moods 
Chapter 5: Personality and Values 
Chapter 6: Perception and Individual Decision Making 
Chapter 7: Motivation Concepts 
Chapter 8: Motivation: From Concepts to Applications 
Part 3: The Group
Chapter 9: Foundations of Group Behavior 
Chapter 10: Understanding Work Teams 
Chapter 11: Communication 
Chapter 12: Leadership 
Chapter 13: Power and Politics 
Chapter 14: Conflict and Negotiation 
Part 4: The Organization System
Chapter 15: Foundations of Organization Structure 
Chapter 16: Organizational Culture 
Chapter 17: Human Resource Policies and Practices 
Chapter 18: Organizational Change and Stress Management