Organisational Behaviour: Engaging People and Organisations,
1st Edition

Part 1 INTRODUCTION TO ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1. An overview of organisational behaviour
2. Changing environment of organisations

Part 2 INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOURS AND PROCESSES IN ORGANISATIONS
3. Individual characteristics
4. Perceptions and reactions
5. Motivating behaviour

Part 3 SOCIAL AND GROUP PROCESSES IN ORGANISATIONS
6. Groups and teams
7. Decision making and problem solving
8. Communication
9. Conflict and negotiation

Part 4 LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE PROCESSES IN ORGANISATIONS
10. Traditional and contemporary leadership
11. Power, influence, and politics

Part 5 ORGANISATIONAL PROCESSES AND CHARACTERISTICS
12. Organisation structure and design
13. Organisation culture
14. Organisational change and change management

• Ricky W. Griffin

  Dr. Ricky W. Griffin serves as Distinguished Professor of Management and Blocker Chair in Business at Texas A&M. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Houston. He has worked as editor of the Journal of Management and as an officer in the Southwest Regional Division of the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association as well as in 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, HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, MANAGEMENT SKILLS, INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS and INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.

• Jean M. Phillips

  Dr. Jean Phillips is a professor of human resource management in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State University. Dr. Phillips earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Michigan State University. She was among the top five percent of published authors in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology during the 1990s, and she received the 2004 Cummings Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Phillips is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She has served on multiple editorial boards of top journals and has published more than 30 research articles. She has authored or co-authored nine books, including this text, STRATEGIC STAFFING, HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, MANAGING NOW and the five-book STAFFING STRATEGICALLY series for the Society for Human Resource Management. Dr. Phillips was also the founding co-editor of the Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management series for Business Expert Press. She has taught classroom and hybrid classroom/online courses in strategic human resource management, organizational behavior, staffing and teams and leadership in the United States, Iceland and Singapore. Her research interests focus on recruitment and staffing, leadership and team effectiveness and linking organizational survey results to business outcomes.

• Stanley M. Gully

  Dr. Stanley M. Gully was a professor of human resource management at Penn State University. Prior to joining the faculty in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State in 2014, Dr. Gully was a faculty member at Rutgers University (1998–2014) and George Mason University (1996–1998). He received his bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from Michigan State University. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 2014 and was ranked by the Academy of Management as one of the top 50 most influential scholars who received their degrees since 1991. Dr. Gully's research interests included work at the interface between training and individual differences. His publications include articles in journals such as Personnel Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He also co-authored textbooks on strategic staffing, organizational behavior and human resource management. In addition, he co-authored a series of staffing books for SHRM and co-edited the Business Expert Press series. His refereed articles and chapters have been cited more than 4,900 times.

• Andrew Creed

  Andrew Creed is an award-winning lecturer and writer at Deakin University in Change Management and Organisational Behaviour. His research interests include online management education, organisational learning and change, action research and relational ethics. He has published textbooks in the fields of organisational behaviour and business communication. As well as funded projects, his research publications include seven book chapters, 17 technical manuals, 20 refereed journal articles and 17 conference papers.

• Lynn Gribble

  Lynn is adjunct faculty at University of New South Wales having extensive career experience. From director-level roles in HR and training across a broad range of industries, including tourism, finance, communication services, retail, publishing, advertising, legal services and NFP in Australia and internationally. She has also gained a wealth of university teaching experience at both an undergraduate and postgraduate level including Doctoral supervision.

• Moira Watson

  Dr Moira Watson is a seasoned academic, now in the School of Business and Governance at Murdoch University in Western Australia. She has served as Associate Dean Accreditation and Quality Standards, MBA Director, and on a range of committees. She earned her PhD from Edith Cowan University in management. She has taught a range of courses in organisational behaviour, leadership, change, and strategy at the undergraduate, master’s and executive master’s level using standard and hybrid technologies in Australia, Singapore, Dubai, and Myanmar.

• Ethical dilemma boxes present an ethical challenge that encourages students to think critically about ethical implications and promotes discussion

• 'Guide your learning' questions at the beginning of each chapter encourage students to begin thinking about the topics ahead

• End-of -chapter case studies with questions that ask students to reflect on the case from a mainstream and critical perspective teach students real-life applications while also asking them to think critically about the learning material

• The unique ‘critical perspective’ features challenge the traditional managerial perspective by introducing abstract ideas and encouraging critical thinking

• Griffin’s unique, integrated learning model captures levels of analysis not covered by the basic OB model therefore providing a more comprehensive and contemporary study of Organisational Behaviour

• MindTap eLearning platform offers interactive experiential learning, as well as new opportunities for engagement and revision

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