Description
Offer your students an engaging, innovative learning experience not confined to traditional academic resources.
Organizational Behaviour, 10th edition is one of the most established books in the field. With new, exciting features and exercises, it encourages your students to draw from everyday experiences, besides their standard academic resources.
Features
Hallmark Features of This Title:
- Critical Thinking: The text invites your students to challenge existing assumptions and concepts and consider other options.
- Innovative Learning Practices: The study of the subject is not limited to strict academic resources, encouraging your students to draw from everyday experiences as part of the learning process.
- Employability Check: An innovative assessment for your students’ employability competencies, helping them consider ways of how they can further improve them.
- Reader-Friendly: Highly accessible writing style, including the author's popular blend of critical thinking and social science underpinning.
- Clear structure: Comprises a clear introduction of learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter and a list of key terms for better understanding of the topic.
New to this Edition
Presenting Updated and New Exciting Features & Content:
- Cutting-Edge: Summarising recent key research findings in the field, encouraging individual food for thought, and challenging group discussion in the classroom.
- 'What did they find?': Asking your students to predict the results of real-life research projects, testing their critical thinking skills and understanding of the reading material.
- Employability Check: Assessing your students' employability competencies in connection with the content, helping them consider how they can further improve them.
- Audio Box: Exploring topical issues related to the topics introduced with advanced support material.
- Video Box: Providing a more in-depth analysis of the chapter themes via links to online video content.
- 'Stop and Search': Offering accessible suggestions to YouTube content for more information on the key topics related to the field.
- Detroit, Estée Lauder, McDonald's, Thai Union: Studying of new, innovative case studies that underwent a successful organizational change.
- Dis-org: Discussing Google's experiment of running a company without managers.
Table of Contents
Part 1: The organizational context
- Chapter 1: Explaining organizational behaviour
- Chapter 2: Environment
- Chapter 3: Technology
- Chapter 4: Culture
Part 2: Individuals in the organization
- Chapter 5: Learning
- Chapter 6: Personality
- Chapter 7: Communication
- Chapter 8: Perception
- Chapter 9: Motivation
Part 3: Groups and teams in the organization
- Chapter 10: Group formation
- Chapter 11: Group structure
- Chapter 12: Individuals in groups
- Chapter 13: Teamworking
Part 4: Management and organization
- Chapter 14: Work design
- Chapter 15: Elements of structure
- Chapter 16: Organization design
- Chapter 17: Organizational architecture
Part 5: Leadership processes
- Chapter 18: Leadership
- Chapter 19: Change
- Chapter 20: Decision making
- Chapter 21: Conflict
- Chapter 22: Power and politics
Back Cover
Organizational Behaviour by Buchanan and Huczynski is one of the best established books in this field. The authors’ popular blend of social science underpinning, challenging assumptions, applying theory to practice, and using movies to explore topical issues, makes this an ideal introduction to the subject. This text can be used by undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional students as it assumes no prior knowledge of the social sciences in general, or of organizational behaviour.
What’s new in this edition?
New features
critical thinking invitations to question, challenge assumptions, consider other options
cutting edge summarizing recent key research findings
what did they find? asking you to predict the results of real life research projects
employability check relating chapter content to employability competencies
audio box links to short podcasts exploring topical issues
video box links to online videos exploring chapter themes in more depth
stop and search suggestions for YouTube content exploring key topics
New content
Living to 100 - what are the implications for work and organizations?
Future-proof your career - skills that are still going to be in demand in a digital world
Born to be an entrepreneur - or can you learn how to become one?
Tattoo or not tattoo - how attitudes towards body art are changing
Gastronomic bonding - team building by members preparing and eating food together
Sexual harassment - the hidden costs for employers
Agile organization - rapidly changing management structures in response to a turbulent environment
Dis-org - Google’s experiment of running a company without managers
Do women make better leaders than men? - they have the right personality traits
Detroit, Estée Lauder, McDonald’s, Thai Union - case studies of successful organizational change
Should leaders play politics, or be squeaky clean? - great leaders ‘bend the rules’
David A. Buchanan is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Cranfield University School of Management
Andrzej A. Huczynski has held research and lecturing posts at the Universities of Westminster, Edinburgh and Glasgow
Author
David A. Buchanan is an Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Cranfield University School of Management.
Andrzej A. Huczynski has held research and lecturing posts at the Universities of Westminster, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.
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