Organizational behavior includes topics that apply to issues or problems that people face in organizations and topics that are essential background for the discussions that follow (perception, attitudes, and personality, for example). Each chapter develops its content and shows the reader its application through references to the opening episode and other examples.
I designed this book for upper-division undergraduate courses and introductory graduate courses in organizational behavior. It is also appropriate for internal training programs in corporations and government offices. The descriptions of behavioral science theory and research will help both nonmanagers and managers.
For nonmanagers, the book offers insights into personal behavior and the behavior of others, which should help a person perform effectively in an organization. For readers who are managers or will become managers, Organizational Behavior offers insight into managerial situations. The discussion of motivation, for example, explains both what motivates aperson to behave in certain ways and how managers can affect the behavior of people by using guidelines from motivation theory.
Part 1 Introduction: The Context of Modern Organizational
Behavior and Management
Part 2 Individual Processes in Organizations
Part 3 Group and Interpersonal Processes in Organizations
Part 4 Organizational Processes
Part 5 Organizational Design, Organizational Change, and the
Future