Organizational Behavior: Science, The Real World, and You Author: Debra L. Nelson | Language: English | ISBN:
B00B7MW7LA | Format: EPUB
Organizational Behavior: Science, The Real World, and You Description
Help your students learn not only the concepts and theories that enhance the management of human behavior at work but also how to practice these skills with Nelson/Quick's ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR. The latest edition of this book clearly demonstrates how organizational behavior theories and research apply to companies today with engaging cases, meaningful exercises, and examples that include six new focus companies students will instantly recognize. The authors present foundational organizational behavior topics, such as motivation, leadership, teamwork, and communication. Students also examine emerging issues reshaping the field today, such as the theme of change. They study how change affects attitudes and behaviors in an organization as well as what new opportunities and experiences change presents. Students further explore growing themes of globalization, diversity, and ethics. The authors anchor the book's multifaceted approach in both classic research and leading-edge scholarship. Timely examples from all types of organizations throughout this edition reflect today's most current trends, including six new focus companies--NetFlix, Ford, Groupon, and more. Self-assessments and other interactive learning opportunities allow your students to grow and develop, both as individuals and as important contributors to an organization, as they progress throughout your course.
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- Print Length: 800 pages
- Publisher: Cengage Learning; 8 edition (September 24, 2013)
- Sold by: Cengage Learning
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00B7MW7LA
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This book is a prime example of how the simplest concepts can be turned into a pseudo academic phraseology in order to look important and to sell a lot of textbooks. The views and perspectives are at best early Newtonian with an understanding of "organizations as clockwork with neat, precise, interrelated functioning." There is no clear distinction between Management and Leadership anywhere in the almost 800 pages, and organizational cultures apparently can only been seen from a Strong, Fit, or Adaptive Perspectives. New insights from neuroscience are conveniently left aside, most case studies, and real life examples pertain mostly to the study of OD and to OB only on the periphery. Almost every page oozes painfully meaningless and relativistic sentences like: "Formal and informal groups form in organizations for different reasons" and "The employee-boss relationship is one of mutual dependence." Really? $200 for ill-stated phrases from the last century.
If the suggested structure of the book is Science - You - The Real World, why would this seemingly important sequence not be reflected in the title? Whoever defines Science in the 21st Century as the "Mastery of objective knowledge = truth", has no clue what is happening in the new sciences and should not advertise their impaired understanding by means of writing textbooks. To be sure, the authors seem to possess a large body of knowledge as they frequently stray into history, but one wonders where the link is to the topics at hand. When Frederick Taylor (1900) is introduced as having a profound influence on the early years of the study of organizational behavior, which really did not even get started until the early 1950 one must question the validity of this book.
By Dr. Thomas Dullien
I really liked this text, it fit the class well and was easy for me to relate to. very applicable
By Jason Anderson
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