A Primer on Organizational Behavior, 7th Edition - Softcover

James L. Bowditch; Anthony F. Buono; Marcus M. Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470086955 ISBN 13: 9780470086957

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Synopsis

A Primer on Organizational Behavior, places attention on information technology in the workplace and how it’s reshaping organizations and the management practices within them.  The 7th Edition is thoroughly updated, featuring in-depth discussions on early management thought, workplace incivility, social justice, conformity in groups, virtual teams, team conflict, leader-member relations, and organizational change.
Students learn all the terms and concepts they need to understand OB and its application in modern organizations, and to comprehend practitioner and scholarly publications.
This primer is ideal for use with cases, readings, experiential exercises, or simulations, and often serves as a review or reference book for MBAs and beyond.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

ESSENTIAL OB from the virtual world to the real world!

Revised with the latest developments in information technology and new discussions of virtual teams and organizations, this Fifth Edition of A Primer on Organizational Behavior distills all the essentials of modern OB into one concise, easy-to-understand volume.

With this text, readers will explore the key terms and concepts of organizational behavior, examine central facets of micro and macro OB and their application in contemporary organizations, and build a solid knowledge base that will help them more fully understand the OB literature in trade journals and scholarly publications.

FEATURES

• Examines current information technologies and how they are reshaping business organizations.
• Includes new sections on knowledge management, emotional intelligence (EQ), electronic modes of communication, the role of social identity and trust-building in creating effective teams, virtual teams, leadership, attributes and results, executive coaching, and dealing with continuous (rather than episodic) change.
• Addresses specific managerial applications of OB concepts throughout the text (diagnostic techniques, participative management approaches, and work-related innovations), rather than  in a separate, concluding chapter.
• Includes a restructured chapter on organizational structure and design, focusing more fully on the evolution of organizational forms.
• Provides an integrated overview of methods, statistics, and how to read a research-based journal article in an appendix.

About the Author:

James L. Bowditch is the Stewardship & Planned Giving Officer for the Diocese of Maine. For the past two years, he was the Director of Development at Episcopal Divinity School. Prior to that he was Professor of Management in the Management & Information Systems Department at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA, and earlier, Dean of the College of Business & Administration. He was also undergraduate dean and associate professor in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. His research has been on the human effects of organizational transformation, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. He has co-authored five books. He holds a B.A. from Yale in psychology, an M.A. from Yale in psychology, an M.A. from Western Michigan University in psychology and a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational psychology.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0470086955
• ISBN 13: 9780470086957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496