Prepare to Think and Act like a manager with the powerful insights, solid concepts, and reader-friendly approach in ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, 12th Edition. This text equips you with the skills and practical understanding to meet modern management challenges. You will delve into the fundamentals of employee behavior in today's organizations as the book balances classic management ideas with thorough coverage of the most recent organizational behavior developments and contemporary trends. Memorable examples from organizations and managers you will instantly recognize are woven throughout the book and work with new cases and boxed features that focus on pressing issues and reinforce the book's practical perspective. You'll also learn more about your strengths and areas where you need development though an array of self-assessment activities.

Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations

Business & Money

Griffin, Ricky W.

Phillips, Jean M.

Gully, Stanley M.

Management & Leadership

Cengage Learning

Organizational Behavior places core concepts of human behavior and industrial psychology in a real-world context. Strong end-of-chapter exercises, activities, plus an optional case and exercise book make this flexible text suitable for students at the undergraduate level. Likewise, the authors' emphasis on the latest organizational behavior research continues to attract graduate students.
The Eighth Edition features significant structural and content changes, as well as an enhanced design?with more figures and tables, cartoons with captions, and 50 new color photos?for greater visual appeal. All Opening Cases and chapter-ending OB Cases for Discussion are new, featuring companies such as Ryanair, Merrill Lynch, and the Denver Broncos. Workplaces issues, featured in several new boxed inserts, focus on five pivotal topics in the modern workplace: technology, ethics, change, diversity, and globalization.
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New! Revised and expanded coverage in the Eighth Edition includes an all-new Chapter 2, which addresses the changing environment of organizations; new research on emotional intelligence; combined coverage of creativity and decision making in Chapter 8; expanded coverage of leadership in Chapters 12 and 13; new content on organizational justice and power and influence in Chapter 14; and new coverage of conflict and negotiation.</li>
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New! Test Preppers now appear at the end of each chapter, helping students assess their comprehension and retention of chapter concepts. Each Test Prepper offers up to 20 questions, with corresponding answers located at the end of the text.</li>
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New! An end-of-part integrative case on Starbucks reflects the interdependence of OB topics, and allows students to consider the "big picture" while applying chapter concepts to the case at hand.</li>
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New! A clear, concise Chapter Outline and list of Chapter Objectives at the start of each chapter help students organize their study time and better focus their learning.</li>
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Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations, Loose-Leaf Version

South-Western College Pub

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