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Organizations Behavior, Structure, Processes

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About the Book: Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes: 14th Edition "The Fourteenth Edition of the award-winning Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes is based on the idea that managing people, structure, and processes in organizations is a challenging, compelling, and crucial set of tasks. This book illustrates how organizational behavior theory leads to research and how both theory and research provide the basic foundation for practical applications in business ?rms, hospitals, educational institutions, government agencies, and other organizations. Readers are given the opportunity to look inside these organizations and to develop their own perspective and skills for managing organizational behavior. Features? A new feature, OB and Your Career, helps students apply the concepts of this book to their careers. A sample of topics include: finding a job that fits with personality and work style; staying motivated after a layoff; being more efficient with time at work; and, acquiring international business experience without relocating. Hundreds of new real-world situations, companies and applied examples illustrate how OB theory and research can be applied to actual work settings. Each year organizations become more involved in global business, global joint ventures, and global negotiations. This edition pays particular attention to global and ethical business issues in each chapter. Diversity management and issues such as the changing nature of employees in the workplace and generational differences between Gen Y, Gen X and Baby Boomers are presented, debated, and analyzed throughout the text. Greater emphasis on teams, group dynamics, group decision making, leadership, and managing change has been added. Updated coverage of current issues, including managing layoffs and the survivors of layoffs, MBA oath of managerial ethics, cultural diversity, workplace spirituality, competitiveness, globalization, offshoring, empowerment, mentoring, organizationa

261 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1900

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For a school book, it is very clear and interesting.
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