Organizational Behavior: People-Oriented Management

Author: Shi Xingguo
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: As a textbook designed to cultivate applied talents, this book maintains the logical system of the discipline while integrating the latest research and practices in humanistic management, harmonious management, team building, corporate culture, knowledge management, comparative management, new organizational models, leadership theory, and sustainable management from both Eastern and Western perspectives. It emphasizes strengthening the content on group behavior and organizational behavior, striving to reflect the fundamental principle of human-centered development that promotes the overall harmonious development of relationships among humans, nature, and society. In terms of structure, it offers flexibility to adapt to different teaching hours, emphasizing application, optimizing the system, highlighting key and difficult points, and reinforcing core foundations. While drawing on the strengths of similar textbooks, it innovates in the knowledge system and content arrangement, catering to all teaching needs, including lectures, practical sessions, assignments, reviews, assessments, and extracurricular self-study. As a professional textbook aimed at cultivating applied talents, this book focuses on the applicability and practicality of theory, the logicality and flexibility of knowledge:
- Emphasize "Human-Centeredness." While preserving the disciplinary logical system of organizational behavior, it integrates the value orientation of human-centered behavior with the research outcomes of humanistic management, particularly the latest developments in humanistic management, harmonious management, team building, corporate culture, knowledge management, comparative management, new organizational models, leadership theory, and sustainable management.
- Innovate the structural system. Adopting the structure of "Group and Organizational Behavior Management," it strengthens the content on group and organizational behavior, aiming to reflect the fundamental principle of "human-centeredness" that promotes the overall harmonious development of relationships among humans, nature, and society.
- Broadly draw on the strengths of various materials. Based on extensive reference to domestic and foreign textbooks, combined with the authors' research findings on the new developments in modern management theory and teaching experience, the content is presented in a standardized and accurate manner, striving to help students understand not only "what" but also "why." The modular structure adapts to teaching needs, with clearly marked foundational and extended content to suit different teaching hours. The rich sections and layout are convenient for both teaching and learning.
- Provide comprehensive teaching resources. Accompanying the book, free downloadable supplementary electronic courseware and answer keys for exercises are provided (download link: www.hxedu.com.cn).
Target Audience: This textbook can be used as the primary teaching material for undergraduate and "Upgraded Bachelor's Degree" programs in management, economics, and teacher education, as well as a reference for postgraduate studies. It is also suitable for reference by cadres at all levels for learning and training, and can serve as a textbook and reference for "Management Psychology" in higher education institutions.