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| Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior (5th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jennifer George, Gareth Jones
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $180.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 143122
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 736
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 013239457X
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.3
EAN: 9780132394574
ASIN: 013239457X
Publication Date: March 10, 2007
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Product Description
This book makes an authoritative and practical introduction to organizational behavior. It contains leading-edge coverage of topics and issues combined with a wealth of learning tools that help readers experience Organizational Behavior and guide them to becoming better managers. Chapter topics discuss individual differences: personality, ability, and job performance; work values, attitudes, moods, and emotions; perception, attribution, and the management of diversity; learning and creativity at work; pay, careers, and changing employment relationships; managing stress and work-life linkages; leadership; power, politics, conflict, and negotiation; communication flows and information technology; organizational culture and ethical behavior; and organizational change and development . For business professionals preparing for a career in management.
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 Workplace success... March 29, 2007
This book has all sorts of information that will help any group of people working together get along better because of a greater understanding of different kinds of people.
 not for MBA students March 16, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was required for an MBA class. It is more suited for undergraduates. It does not encourage deeper thinking or analysis appropriate for the graduate level.
The book is strong in theoretical understanding but weak in management applications. It is nice to be able to list the names of motivation theories, for example, but the authors seem uanble to provide criteria one might want to consider for policy decisions. I wonder if this book is by and for academics who have no real life work experience but need to publish or perish.
End of chapter supplementary articles are only from the New York Times. Although the book's introductory material lets us know how wonderful this is, a greater variety of source material would enhance the overall effectiveness. After all, the book does speak of diversity.
To its credit, the book is reasonably readable and does not overwhelm us with too much esoteric academic speak.
Great book. Must have it, if you are studying Org. Behavior March 14, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A colorful introductory textbook on organizational behavior that integrates concepts, theories, and research findings to examine individuals in organizations, groups and organizational processes, and inter-group relations and the organizational context. Case studies illuminate concepts and provide managerial implications. There is a diversity of heuristic features, some integrated into the text and some at the end of each chapter or part.
Great book. Must have it, if you are studying Organizational Behaviors (OB).
Also, this book is well known to many of top ranked universities in Graduate Programs (MBA) and No. of copies this books have been sold are in few hundred thousands !!! (@ 380,000 copies) justifies it's strength and quality of knowledge as well.
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