
Research in Organizational Behavior: Volume 19
Vol 19
Barry Staw(Author)
JAI Press Inc.
Published on 11. March 1997
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-0-7623-0179-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is the 19th volume in a series of reviews of research in organizational behaviour. This volume covers such topics as: motivational traits and skills; the dispositional causes of job satisfaction; the ways and means of studying group processes; and managing grand scale construction projects.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
764 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-0179-9 (9780762301799)
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Person
Barry M. Staw is the Lorraine T. Mitchell Professor of Leadership and Communication at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has previously served on the faculties at the University of Illinois, Northwestern, Iowa, and UCLA. He is the author of more than 60 academic articles and has edited several hooks on organizational behavior. He has served on the editorial boards of most major journals in the fields of organizational behavior and applied psychology, and is founder and co-editor of the annual series, "Research in Organizational Behavior." Professor Staw's current research interests include the relationship of affect and emotion to work performance, the escalation of commitment, organizational innovation, and the linkage of psychological processes to organizational strategy. He recently received the Academy of Management's Scholarly Contributions Award in recognition of his career achievements in research.
Content
Motivational traits and skills - a person-centered approach to work motivation, R. Kanfer and E.D. Heggestad; matching motivational strategies with organizational contexts, T.R. Mitchell; the dispositional causes of job satisfaction - a core evaluations approach, T.A. Judge et al; how did they do that? The ways and means of studying group processes, L.R. Weingart; personal responsibility - applications of the triangle model, B.R. Schlenker; managing grand scale construction projects - a risk-taking perspective, Z. Shapira and D.J. Berndt; "you can't be a stone if you're cement" - re-evaluating the emic identities of scientists in organizations, S.E. Zabusky and S.R. Barley.