Prepare today to become a strong, effective manager tomorrow with the powerful insights, solid concepts, and reader-friendly approach in ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, Tenth Edition. This text equips readers with the skills and practical understanding to meet the management challenges of a new century. Readers delve into the fundamentals of human behavior in today's organizations as the book balances classic management ideas with thorough coverage of the most recent OB developments and contemporary trends. Memorable examples from instantly recognizable organization, such as such as Steve Jobs, Eddie Bauer, Cirque du Soleil, snopes.com, Whole Foods, Nike, and Goldman Sachs, are woven throughout the book and work with fresh new cases and proven boxed features that focus on pressing issues and reinforce the book's practical perspective. Readers find themselves well equipped and energized for the most exciting task of tomorrow: managing people effectively within competitive organizations.
Review
"The end-of-chapter questions and exercises are very useful. The text is very readable and accessible to students. The user will find the end-of-chapter cases timely and instructor supplements quite varied."- Kathleen Johnson, Keene State College
"This text is the perfect level for a 200-level course. It is designed with the subject of OB in mind and not a combo of OB and Management. I really like the case studies at the end of the chapters."- RIEANN SPENCE-GALE, NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE--ALEXANDRIA CAMPUS
"[I like the] overall coverage of the most important topics students need to know in O.B., the specific coverage of motivation and rewards, and the practical application of the concepts to real world situations."- Robert W. Leonard, Lebanon Valley College.
About the Author
Ricky W. Griffin serves as Distinguished Professor and Blocker Chair in Business at Texas A&M. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Houston. He has served as editor of the Journal of Management and as an officer in the Southwest Regional Division of the Academy of Management, the Southern Management Association, and the Research Methods Division and the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Griffin spent three years on the faculty at the University of Missouri (Columbia) before moving to Texas A&M University in 1981. His research interests include workplace violence, employee health and well-being in the workplace, and workplace culture. A well respected author recognized for his organizational behavior and management research, Dr. Griffin has written many successful textbooks, including MANAGEMENT, ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, HR, MANAGEMENT SKILLS, INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS, and INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.
Gregory Moorhead is an associate professor of management at Arizona State University. He attended Texas Tech University and the University of Houston. He earned his BSIE, M.B.A., and Ph.D. in organizational behavior and management. He joined the faculty at ASU in 1978 and has taught courses in management principles, management policy and strategy, personnel management, and operations management, as well as graduate seminars in organizational behavior and international management. Dr. Moorhead has written numerous articles that have been published in leading managerial journals, including ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW, HUMAN RELATIONS, ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES, EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT, JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, and others. His research focuses on the fields of groupthink, group decision-making, job design, leadership, and organization structure. He frequently travels internationally with his students, giving him a unique first-hand perspective on numerous global topics.
I give this 4 out of 5 stars because they create a new edition with no changes every year to keep the text at over 200 dollars, which is ridiculous. Is the book an easy read? I would say the book is a fairly easy read for students in public or business administration. The text covers most of the major theories of organizational behavior in enough detail that if you are interested in an idea you would have enough information about it to pursue elsewhere. I guess this book would only be enjoyable to someone who loved org theory and all the explanations of what motivates people within the workplace. A valuable topic to thing about for future administrators that is often not considered a quantifiable goal. I don't know, not the worst the text I have read. Yes, professors you should teach from this text on the topic and students you should buy the version prior to the most current one for this text. No significant changes from 8th to 9th, and doubt there is from 9th to 10th.
As far as textbooks go, this one wasn't bad. I don't know if I would pick it up and read it if I didn't have to, but it wasn't boring and I could keep a relatively fast pace in reading through it.
It was easy to follow and find the answers i needed. It was very informative and applicable to real word situations.
Product Details :
- Hardcover: 608 pages
- Publisher: Cengage Learning; 10 edition (January 1, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0538478136
- ISBN-13: 978-0538478137
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 1.1 x 10.1 inches
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