Organizational Behaviour

Andrzej Huczynski

• 13 augustus 2019
• 9781292251578

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Offer your students an engaging, innovative learning experience not confined to traditional academic resources.

Organizational Behaviour, 10th edition is one of the most established books in the field. With new, exciting features and exercises, it encourages your students to draw from everyday experiences, besides their standard academic resources.

Organizational Behaviour by Buchanan and Huczynski is one of the best established books in this field. The authors' popular blend of social science underpinning, challenging assumptions, applying theory to practice, and using movies to explore topical issues, makes this an ideal introduction to the subject. This text can be used by undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional students as it assumes no prior knowledge of the social sciences in general, or of organizational behaviour.

New features

• critical thinking invitations to question, challenge assumptions, consider other options
• cutting edge summarizing recent key research findings
• what did they find? asking you to predict the results of real life research projects
• employability check relating chapter content to employability competencies
• audio box links to short podcasts exploring topical issues
• video box links to online videos exploring chapter themes in more depth
• stop and search suggestions for YouTube content exploring key topics

New content

• Living to 100 - what are the implications for work and organizations?
• Future-proof your career - skills that are still going to be in demand in a digital world
• Born to be an entrepreneur - or can you learn how to become one?
• Tattoo or not tattoo - how attitudes towards body art are changing
• Gastronomic bonding - team building by members preparing and eating food together
• Sexual harassment - the hidden costs for employers
• Agile organization - rapidly changing management structures in response to a turbulent environment
• Dis-org - Google's experiment of running a company without managers
• Do women make better leaders than men? - they have the right personality traits
• Detroit, Estée Lauder, McDonald's, Thai Union - case studies of successful organizational change

Should leaders play politics, or be squeaky clean? - great leaders "bend the rules"

David A. Buchanan is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Cranfield University School of Management

Andrzej A. Huczynski has held research and lecturing posts at the Universities of Westminster, Edinburgh and Glasgow

Organizational Behaviour,10th edition by Buchanan and Huczynski, is one of the most established books in the field, ideal for undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional students who do not necessarily have a background in social science.

Well-known for its accessible, reader-friendly nature, this textbook challenges you to look beyond academic resources and explore the concept of organizations in society by drawing from your personal, everyday experiences.

Some of the issues explored include organizational environment analysis and people's behaviour, personality study and communication, the role of individuals in groups and the concept of teamworking.

The book employs a blend of social science underpinning assumptions, applies theory to practice, and uses movie clips examples as case studies to explore topical issues.

This edition also includes some new, exciting features, such as links to short podcasts and online videos, and summaries of recent key research findings, offering an in-depth analysis of the chapter themes. It also offers new, cutting-edge content on issues, such as the agile organization and women's personality traits in leadership, and a plethora of case studies on leading organizations.

The textbook aims to help you develop a critical understanding of the theories and principles regarding an organization's environment and culture, and explore its impact on people's personalities.

Combined with useful exercises and references for further support, this market-leading text will give you a comprehensive overview of the fundamental theories encompassing Organizational Behaviour and will encourage you to question your existing views on the topic, whether you are an undergraduate, postgraduate, or professional student.