Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
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.
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Organizational Behaviour, 11th Edition, by Buchanan and Huczynski offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject. This market-leading textbook blends social science principles with critical thinking tools, drawing clear connections between theory and practice. The popular text explores how organizations influence our views and actions, and how we can explain the behaviour of people within these organizations.
Drawing from personal experiences, this definitive textbook encourages you to engage with the concept of organizations in society besides your standard academic resources.
Fully updated to reflect recent cutting-edge research, modern working practices and topical issuesThe new edition covers topics including:
- Power inequalities
- Equality, inclusion, diversity considerations
- Going green – how investment and insurance companies encourage environmental responsibility
- Code switching – adjusting language, personality, behaviour, and appearance to ‘fit in’
- Hybrid working – impacts on home-based workers and relationships with office-based colleagues
- Are female leaders more effective in a crisis? – lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
- 2020 Beirut Explosion – how did that happen, and was it a management problem?
- Offshoring, onshoring, reshoring, nearshoring, friend-shoring – the future of globalization
- Socially responsible investment
- Cultural differences in understanding body language
- Teamwork old and new – how groups in organizations have changed
- Workplace hazing – how common are the unofficial practices of initiating newcomers with degrading behaviour?
- Explaining organizational behaviour
- Environment
- Technology
- Culture
- Learning
- Personality
- Communication
- Perception
- Motivation
- Group formation
- Group structure
- Individuals in group
- Teamworking
- Work design
- Elements of structure
- Organization design
- Organizational architecture
- Leadership
- Change
- Decision making
- Conflict
- Power and politics
- A social science perspective drawing on a range of disciplines.
- Critical thinking sections invite students to challenge assumptions.
- Key theories and applications summaries in every chapter
- Employability checks assess students employability skills.
- Cutting edge sections summarise recent research findings.
- What did they find? questions ask students to predict the results of real-life research projects, testing their critical thinking skills.
- Learning outcomes and Key terms at the beginning of each chapter.
- Home viewing suggests movies that illustrate topics in graphic and memorable ways
- Find on YouTube suggestions for online content exploring key topics
- Geopolitical instability triggering a range of leadership and organizational responses
- Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements focusing attention on diversity, equality, and inclusivity
- Hybrid working models developed during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Women as leaders: research suggests female leaders were more effective during the pandemic crisis
- Technology developments such as robotics and AI affecting professional and manual work
- Demographic trends including an ageing, multigenerational workforce
- Diversity, equality, and inclusion
- Quiet quitting - a new phenomenon?
- Going green – how companies encourage environmental responsibility
- Code-switching – adjusting language, behaviour and appearance to ‘fit in.
- Socially responsible investment
- Cultural differences in understanding body language
- Soft skills that will be needed as AI and robotics absorb more tasks
- Workplace hazing
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
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.