Management and Organizational Behavior
3rd Edition
Published on 6. December 2011
Book
Hardback
978-0-07-239662-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
col. Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-239662-1 (9780072396621)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
What Managers and Organizations Do. 1: Managing People and Organizations. 2: Strategic Thinking, Planning and Controlling. 3: Organizing Work and People. 4: Creating and Modifying Organizational Culture. Managing People. 5: Understanding Perception, Learning, and Personality. 6: Motivation Principles. 7: Methods of Motivating People in Organizations. Managing Relationships. 8: Communicating for Understanding and Results. 9: Creating Productive Interpersonal Relationships. 10: Building Groups Into Teams. 11: Conflict Management and Negotiation. Leadership Practices. 12: Ethical Problem Solving and Decision Making. 13: Power and Politics. 14: Leadership. Managing Change. 15: Managing Change and Organizational Development. 16: Self Management at Work: Stress, Health, Career. Appendix A: Origins and Methods of Management and OB Theories.