Essentials of Organizational Behavior
An Evidence-Based Approach
- Terri A. Scandura - University of Miami, USA
Organizational Behavior
Essentials of Organizational Behavior equips you with the theory, research, and skills you need to be an effective leader and manager in today’s organisations. Author Terri A. Scandura utilizes a toolkit of real-life case studies, assessments, and exercises to teach you how organisational behaviour can improve performance at every level in the workplace. With an emphasis on developing critical thinking skills and applying research to real scenarios, this book is a must-have resource for any student looking to enter the professional workforce.
Structured around key aspects of organisational behaviour, the author explores individuals in organisations, managers as motivators, managers as relationship builders, cross-cultural differences, and managers as change agents. Alongside, ‘Leadership Implications’ in each chapter help you understand how to use organisational behaviour concepts to become a more effective leader and act as motivator, relationship builder, and agent of change in your organisation.
Features:
- An evidence-based approach introduces you to theories, models, and concepts that are validated by research, focusing on contemporary approaches that work
- Chapter Toolkits include real-world Case Studies, Self-Assessments, and Exercises that allow you to practice applying organisational behaviour concepts to real organizations and your own life
- An appendix on research designs explores different types of methods and how they are used in organisational behaviour.
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“Breaks the mold in management text books and management education.”
“Scandura’s new text delivers on the promise of a concise yet substantive and evidence-based survey of Organizational Behavior.”
“Terri Scandura’s textbook with its central focus on leadership highlights the notion that leadership is at the crux of organizational behavior and that training students to do is what we as instructors should be about. This is especially true for student-managers pursuing MBA degrees. Everything we do in class, everything we teach, every assignment and every paper should give student-managers a down-to-earth lift toward effective leadership. Scandura’s textbook addresses leadership issues and shows how theories and concepts of OB can help students in their careers.”
“This text offers a practical research-based approach to the study of organizational behavior and provides a meaningful description of the leader’s role in the organization.”
“The integration of a leadership perspective into each topic and the presentation of possible implications for the practice of leadership are rare and valuable contributions to the study and understanding of organizational behavior. This textbook will be useful for students not only while they are in the classroom, but as they enter (or re-enter) the contemporary and complex situational contexts of real-world organizations.”
We have decided to adopt this book as a supplementary text due to a wide range of organizational behavioral concepts contained. Very happy about this!