Mullins , L. J. ( 2002 ) Management and Organisational Behaviour , 6th edn . Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall . Mumby , D. K. and Putnam , L. L. ( 1992 ) ' The politics of emotion : a feminist reading of bounded rationality ' ...
Author: Ian Brooks
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0273715364
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 380
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Over the past decade the need for practical leadership skills has grown dramatically in both the private and public sectors. Outstanding leadership has become established as a key requirement for managers at all levels. Managers in organisations of all sizes are also expected to be effective leaders and performance-focused coaches. Outstanding ......
MEANING , SCOPE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Organizational behaviour is an emerging academic field of study , which seeks to understand and describe human behaviour in organizational settings .
Then what does globalization mean for organisations behaviour ? Plenty . Actually OB scholars have warned that organisational practices may not be applicable elsewhere because of different ( i ) cultures , ( ii ) religious , and ( iii ) ...
Author: S. Fayyaz Ahmad
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 8126909390
Category: Organizational behavior
Page: 428
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In order to be effective, modern complex organizations require leadership at all levels which is capable of realising the creative potential of their people towards the attainment of common goals. Organizational Behaviour, a subject, based on scientific research and applied orientation, helps managers and members of organizations to understand, develop and utilize this tremendous human potential. It is now a widely accepted fact that mere possession of technical and administrative skills is not sufficient for leadership success. As such, the managers of the third millennium have started realising that emotions and attitudes of people are as important in determining the organizational success as their technical skills and knowledge. Thus, organizations have started selecting employees based on emotional quotient (EQ) and positive attitudes. The book provides an insight into the subject of organizational behaviour along with cases, interweaving them with relevant examples and real happenings. Divided into 15 sections, it covers all the major concepts and principles of management, organization theory and organizational behaviour, taking care of both the traditional and transitional viewpoints. It presents cases developed and collected from various sources and follows a student-friendly approach. Various concepts in the book have been explained in real Indian perspective to help readers get a practical understanding of the conceptual issues. The book is rich in diagrams, tables, and illustrations. The language and style have been kept simple to facilitate easy understanding by the readers. A variety of questions like descriptive, applied orientation and objective type, included in the book, is one of its distinctive features. This book fulfils the needs of students of MBA, MFC, M.Com, BBM, BBA, MHRM, Sociology and Management Studies.
You're in an introductory course in organisational behaviour . On the first day of class your lecturer asks you to write down the answer to the following question : " Why aren't employees as motivated at work today as they were 30 years ...
Author: Stephen P. Robbins
Publisher: Pearson South Africa
ISBN: 1868910245
Category: Motivation
Page: 484
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This book is the first Southern African edition of Stephen P. Robbins's Organizational Behaviour, the best-selling organisational behaviour textbook worldwide.
Nevertheless , it illustrates the idea that if we wish to gain a fuller understanding of the behaviour of people in organisations , or the behaviour of an organisation as a whole , there is a need to integrate micro and macro approaches ...
Author: Derek Rollinson
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0273711148
Category: Organisational behaviour
Page: 788
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Brief Contents Section 1: Introductory Concepts 1 Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Study of Organisations 2 Chapter 2: The Contexts of Contemporary Organisations 33 Section 2: Individual Characteristics 65 Chapter 3: Personality, Intelligence and Aptitude 66 Chapter 4: Perception 104 Chapter 5: Attitudes and Emotions 129 Integration 1: Integrating Individual Characteristics 160 Integrative Case Study No. 1 162 Section 3: The Intrapersonal Level (Individual Processes) 165 Chapter 6: Memory and Learning 166 Chapter 7: Work Motivation and Job Design 194 Chapter 8: Work Motivation: Process Theories 227 Chapter 9: Individual Decision Making 248 Chapter 10: Workplace Stress and Work-life Balance 273 Integration 2: Integrating Individual Characteristics and Processes 309 Integrative Case Study No. 2 311 Section 4: The Interpersonal Level 315 Chapter 11: Groups, Teams and Teamworking 316 Chapter 12: Leadership: The Foundations of Leadership Theory 349 Chapter 13: Leadership: Contingency Theories and Recent Approaches 368 Chapter 14: Power, Politics and Conflict 393 Chapter 15: Organisational Communication 430 Integration 3: Integrating Group Characteristics and Processes and the Links between Individuals and Groups 462 Integrative Case Study No. 3 465 Section 5: The Organisational Level 469 Chapter 16: Organisational Goals and Effectiveness 470 Chapter 17: Organisational Structure 500 Chapter 18: Organisational Design 531 Chapter 19: Organisational Control 563 Chapter 20 Organisational Culture and Climate 590 Chapter 21: Organisational Change and Development 629 Integration 4: Integrating Macro Level Characteristics and Macro and Micro Levels of Organisation 664 Integrative Case Study No.
Individuals with different backgrounds or at different levels within the organisation tend to describe the culture ... 4.2.1 Culture and organisational behaviour Organisational culture is the social adhesive that assists in holding the ...
Author: William Fox
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN: 0702171980
Category: Manpower planning
Page: 228
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Managing organisational behaviour not only critically examines organisational behaviour in contemporary South African institutions (including the Public Service) but relates that behaviour to relevant chaos and quantum complexity theories.
A summary of some merits in understanding organi- sational behaviour theory and the role of management is given in Mullins , L. J. ' The Organisation and the Individual ' , Administrator , vol . 7 , no . 4 , April 1987 , pp . 11-14 . 3.
Author: Laurie J. Mullins
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0273707345
Category: Health services administration
Page: 580
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Taking a managerial approach and demonstrating the application of behavioural science within the workplace, this text focuses on the essential topics of organisational behaviour. The Essentials text is a new concise version of the long established market leader Management & Organisational Behaviour which has set standards in pedagogy and authorship that few texts have matched. The accessibility of writing style and clarity of presentation makes unfamiliar theory relevant, easily understood and logically applied to the world of work. In 12 chapters, the Essentials version focuses on the core topics of the discipline in a recognisable sequence, starting from the level of individual, though to the group, and finally the organisation.
If you have ever wondered about how people act and think the way they do in the workplace, you have been thinking about organisational behaviour (OB), probably without knowing it. By studying concepts and research in OB you will ...
Author: Christine Cross
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781350305397
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 553
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This refreshing textbook shows how research into human behaviour can be applied in the workplace. It is focussed on helping students to develop the key skills they will need as future managers and employees. It assumes no prior work experience, and instead asks students to draw on their everyday experiences. They are invited to complete a range of innovative activities designed to deepen their understanding of key topics, such as personality, perception, and motivation. The book is an ideal length for one-semester taught courses. It is aimed primarily at first and second year undergraduate students on business and management degrees, who are taking OB modules for the first time, though could also be used on postgraduate and MBA courses.
Unit I: Introduction Organisational Behaviour: Concepts, challenges, and opportunities of OB. Contributing disciplines of OB. Organisational Behaviour Models. Unit II: Individual Behaviour Personality. Type A and B, Big Five Personality ...
Author: Amandeep Nahar
Publisher: Sultan Chand & Sons
ISBN: 9789351611998
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 61
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The book is helpful primarily to students at the undergraduate level as well as practitioners who are new to the domain of ‘people management while developing a solid ground and test the skills in applying passim their careers. The text matter is divided into five units comprising of 16 chapters and tried to cover the most relevant and current issues of OB. The first unit initiates with the overview of OB, its significance in the real world, the challenges it faces at every phase of the lifecycle, the synergy of disciplines culminating to forge the field, and the models of OB as mandated by leaders of the yore. Also, the fundamental interconnectivity of OB with its predatory discipline ‘Management’ is discussed through the evolutions of management thought. The second unit begins with ‘individual’ as central to the subject, and subsequently, the insights of perception, attitude, etc., are being discussed appropriately. The third unit sheds light on the basics of group dynamics, communication, motivation, and leadership which are vital in guiding the individual throughout. The fourth and fifth units focus on the ground realities of power politics, organisational change, culture, interpersonal and intergroup conflicts, employee stress, and expressions of organisational Preface iv Organisational Behaviour culture. These units are quite generic and superficially touch the aspects which are, though unsavory in general, but are inescapable for every organisation and management dwindles to face them.
However, much of the organisational theory in use today is American in origin, with the works of Max Weber, Karl Marx and others refracted through the prism of American organisational behaviour literature (Coulshed et al, 2006).
Author: Gavin Bissell
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781847422798
Category: Organizational behavior
Page: 198
View: 638
Organisational behaviour for social work unites the well-established study of behaviour in organizations with the special, and sometimes unusual, organizational settings of social work practice. In doing this, it recognizes the gendered nature of social work organizations, but, uniquely, retains simultaneously the valuable insights of mainstream organizational behaviour research, despite its often male context.Another innovation of the book is the targetting of non-traditional organizational behaviour audiences. For, where previous textbooks have tended to cater for managers, this book is aimed at the social work practitioner, and others who interact with social work organizations.Finally, the book uses real social work case examples to flesh out traditional organizational behaviour concepts, and, in doing so, also explains the impact of recent organizational changes upon social work practice.