[Ebook PDF] Organizational Behavior: A Skill-Building Approach, 2nd Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-1544317540
ISBN-10: 1544317549

Author: Christopher P. Neck (Author), Jeffery D. Houghton (Author), Emma L. Murray (Author)

Why does organizational behavior matter—isn’t it just common sense?  
Organizational Behavior: A Skill-Building Approach helps students answer this question by providing insight into OB concepts and processes through an interactive skill-building approach. Translating the latest research into practical applications, authors Christopher P. Neck, Jeffery D. Houghton, and Emma L. Murray unpack how managers can develop essential skills to unleash the potential of their employees. The text examines how individual characteristics, group dynamics, and organizational factors affect performance, motivation, and job satisfaction, providing students with a holistic understanding of OB. Packed with critical thinking opportunities, experiential exercises, and self-assessments, the new Second Edition provides students with a fun, hands-on introduction to the fascinating world of OB.
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Preface
Nikos Kazantzakis once wrote:
Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of
their own.
Our goal as an author team was to write an organizational behavior (OB) textbook that really engaged students—not one that involved memorizing its content for the sole purpose of passing exams and then quickly forgetting whatever they had learned. We wanted to write a textbook that students could use well after the semester was over to help them actively learn and think critically in order to understand how people behave as they pursue their career goals. In other words, we wanted to help students “build bridges” to their goals and dreams. We hope we have achieved our goal in Organizational Behavior: A Skill-Building Approach for students in organizational behavior classes across the world.
In our 21st-century business world, organizational behavior has taken on a new significance. In an environment in which competition is fiercer than ever, it is people who act as differentiators in the workplace. In every aspect of business, people are the cornerstone of success. This is why it is so important to understand human behavior.
The following quote from Curt Coffman and Gabriela Gonzalez-Molina in Follow This Path: How the World’s Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential reinforces the importance of understanding human behavior in organizations:
The success of your organization doesn’t depend on your understanding of economics, or organizational development, or marketing. It depends, quite simply, on your understanding of human psychology: how each individual employee connects with your company and how each individual employee connects with your customers.
One of the earliest studies of organizational behavior was carried out at AT&T’s Western Electric Hawthorne plant by Harvard’s Elton Mayo in 1927. The principal findings of this study showed that when workers are given the opportunity to contribute their thinking and learning to workplace issues, their job performance improves. This finding is still relevant today.
Studies in organizational behavior add to our understanding of the individuals working within all types of businesses, from corporate to entrepreneurial.
Organizational Behavior: A Skill-Building Approach attempts to capture the body of knowledge that encompasses the organizational behavioral research into a book that is fun to read, captures the reader’s attention, and imparts the organizational behavioral knowledge in a way that promotes critical thinking.