Organizational Behavior

The e-book OB text introducing students to key concepts in the field

The thirteenth edition of Organizational Behavior is written to engage and teach readers about the subject. The book presents organizational behavior in the workplace and for life. The first chapter introduces the subject, and the text then proceeds to cover a range of topics, including: leadership, teamwork, individual performance, organizational cultures and the role of communication.

Dr. Mary Uhl-Bien is the Howard Hawks chair in Business Ethics and Leadership and associate Director of the Leadership Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned her Ph.D. and MBA in organizational behavior at the University of Cincinnati after completing an undergraduate degree in International business and Spanish. She teaches organizational behavior, leadership, and ethics courses at the undergraduate and graduate (MBA and doctoral) levels, and has been heavily involved in executive education, teaching to business executives and physicians in the United States, china, Europe, and Saudi Arabia and to the senior executive service of the U.S. government for The Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. she has been a visiting professor/scholar at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon Portugal, and University Lund in Sweden.

Dr. John R. Schermerhorn, Jr. is the Charles G. O'Bleness Professor Emeritus of Management in the College of business at Ohio University where he teaches undergraduate and MBA courses in management, organizational behavior, and Asian business. He also serves the university as Director of the center for Southeast Asian Studies. He earned a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Northwestern University, after receiving an M.B.A. (with distinction) in management and international business from New York University, and a B.S. in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dedicated to instructional excellence and serving the needs of practicing managers, Dr. Schermerhorn continually focuses on bridging the gap between the theory and practice of management in both the classroom and in his textbooks. He has won awards for teaching excellence at Tulane University, The University of Vermont, and Ohio University, where he was named a University Professor, the university's leading campus-wide award for his service as Chair of the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management.

Dr. Richard N. Osborn is a Wayne State University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Management Emeritus, and former Board of Governors Faculty Fellow. He has received teaching awards at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and Wayne State University, and he has also taught at Arizona State University, Monash University (Australia), Tulane University, University of Munich, and the University of Washington. He received a DBA from Kent State University after earning an MBA at Washing State University ad a BS from Indiana University. With over 200 presentations and publications, he is a charter member of the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame. Dr. Osborn is a leading authority on international alliances in technology-intensive industries and is co-author of an organization theory text as well as Basic Organizational Behavior (John Wiley & Sons, 1995, 1998). He has served as editor of international strategy for the Journal. He serves or has served as a member of the editorial boards for The Academy of Management Journal, The Academy of Management review, Journal of High Technology Management, The Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, and Technology Studies, among others. He is very active in the Academy of Management, having served as divisional program chair and president, as well as the Academy representative for the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. Dr. Osborn's research has been sponsored by the Department of Defense, Ford Motor Company, National Science Foundation, Nissan, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, among others. In addition to teaching, Dr. Osborn spent a number of years in private industry, including a position as a senior research scientists with the Battelle Memorial Institute in Seattle, where he worked on improving the safety of commercial nuclear power.

Part 1 Organizational Behavior Today

Chapter 1 - Introducing Organizational Behavior 

Part 2 Individual Behavior and Performance

Chapter 2 - Diversity, Personality, and Values

Chapter 3 - Perception, Attribution, and Learning

Chapter 4 - Emotions, Attitudes, and Job Satisfaction

Chapter 5 - Motivation

Chapter 6 - Motivation and Performance 

Part 3 Teams and Teamwork

Chapter 7 - The Nature of Teams 

Chapter 8 - Teamwork and Performance 

Chapter 9 - Decision Making and Creativity 

Chapter 10 - Conflict and Negotiation 

Part 4 Influence Processes and Leadership

Chapter 11 - Communication

Chapter 12 - Power and Politics 

Chapter 13 - The Leadership Process

Chapter 14 - Leadership Traits and Behavioral Styles

Part 5 Organizational Context

Chapter 15 - Organizational Culture

Chapter 16 - Organizational Structures 

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