Organizational Behavior (Fifth Edition)

Author: (English) David Buchanan and Andrew Huczynski
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: The success of this new edition lies in providing students and teachers with a clear and comprehensive approach to learning organizational behavior. The book introduces the concepts, theories, models, and frameworks of organizational behavior to help understand various behaviors in organizations. It encourages readers to adopt a new perspective based on their own ideas and experiences to challenge current thoughts in organizational behavior. Throughout the book, it emphasizes how to apply the ideas and methods of organizational behavior to practice. This edition inherits the features of previous editions, adopting a broad social science perspective, maintaining clarity, authority, and an engaging writing style. At the same time, it retains most of the teaching features from the fourth edition, including: learning objectives and key terms, think and reflect exercises, summary and discussion questions, cartoons and other illustrative descriptions, annotations for in-depth reading, new glossary, and unique perspectives on organizational behavior in literature. Please see the new features of this edition: an innovative exploration of the field of "visual culture," where the book explores how work and organizations are represented in photographs and introduces students to how to "decode" images from newspapers. Instructors are encouraged to introduce their own current reflections.