Handbook of organizational behavior

Author(s)

• Golembiewski, Robert T.

Bibliographic Information

Handbook of organizational behavior

edited by Robert T. Golembiewski

（Public administration and public policy, 87）

M. Dekker, c2001

2nd ed., rev. and expanded

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Building upon the strengths of the first edition while continuing to extend the influence and reach of organizational behavior (OB), the Second Edition of this groundbreaking reference/ text analyzes OB from a business marketing perspective-offering a thorough treatment of central, soon-to-be central, contiguous, and emerging topics of OB to facilitate greater viability and demand of OB practice. New edition incorporates more comparative perspectives throughout! Contributing to the dynamic, interdisciplinary state of OB theory and practice, the Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Second Edition comprehensively covers strategic and critical issues of the OB field with descriptive analyses and full documentation details the essential principles defining core OB such as organizational design, structure, culture, leadership theory, and risk taking advances solutions to setting operational definitions throughout the field comparatively discusses numerous situations and variables to provide clarity to mixed or inconclusive research findings utilizes cross-cultural approaches to examine recent issues concerning race, ethnicity, and gender reevaluates value standards and paradigms of change in OB investigates cross-national examples of OB development, including case studies from the United States and India and much more! Written by 45 worldwide specialists and containing over 3500 references, tables, drawings, and equations, the Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Second Edition is a definitive reference for public administrators, consultants, organizational behavior specialists, behavioral psychologists, political scientists, and sociologists, as well as a necessary and worthwhile text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking organizational behavior courses in the departments of public administration, psychology, management, education, and sociology.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Fitting a Market Metaphor to Organizational Behavior Robert T. Golembiewski Some Standard or Wheelhorse Themes The Contingency Approach to Organizational Design Paul R. Lawrence Work Motivation Hal G. Rainey Motivation by Goal Setting Edwin A. Locke Conservation of Resources Theory: Applications to Stress and Management in the Workplace Stevan E. Hobfoll and Arie Shirom Small Group Research: Autonomous Teams and Progress on Issues of Context and Levels of Analysis Claus W. Langfred and Mark T. Shanley Organizational Culture: It's Alive! It's Alive! But There's No Fixed Address! Robert G. Isaac and Douglas C. Pitt Organization Design William B. Stevenson Surveying Organizational Structures and Human Resource Practices: The National Organizations Study Peter V. Marsden, Arne L. Kalleberg, and David Knoke Risk Taking in Organizations Myron L. Weber Leadership Theory in Postmodernist Organizations Karl W. Kuhnert Some Themes Requiring Enhanced Emphasis Research on Race and Ethnicity: An Update and Analysis Taylor Cox, Jr., Stella M. Nkomo, and Julia Welch Human Factors in Information Systems G. David Garson Psychological Burnout in Organizations: Research and Intervention Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen Managing Organizational Conflict: Challenges for Organization Development and Change M. Afzalur Rahim Entrepreneurial Phenomena in a Cross-National Context Urs E. Gattiker and John Parm Ulhoi Work-Family Role Conflict and Employer Responsibility: An Organizational Analysis of Workplace Responses to a Social Problem Paul M. Roman and Terry C. Blum Management Training and Development Dorothy Olshfski and Deborah Ann Cutchin Valuing Diversity in a Global Economy: The Sad State of Organizations and Gender Allan R. Cahoon and Julie I. A. Rowney Some Themes with Great Potential Wisdom's Critical Requirement for Scientific Objectivity in Organizational Behavior Research: Explicit Reporting of Researcher Values Gordon A. Walter Postmodernism: Implications for Organization Theory? Dale Skip Newberg Behavioral Research in Auditing: A Review and Synthesis Ronald A. Davidson Hegemonic Masculinity and Organizational Behavior Martin Kilduff A Positive Revolution in Change: Appreciative Inquiry David L. Cooperrider and Diana Whitney Paradigms in Organizational Change: Change Agent and Change Target Perspectives Achilles A. Armenakis, Stanley G. Harris, and Hubert S. Feild Compensation: Trends and Expanding Horizons Elizabeth M. Doherty and Walter R. Nord A Way Out of No Way? Strategy, Structure, and the New Governance Robert F. Durant A New Perspective on Organizing in Industry John Parm Ulhoi,Urs E. Gattiker, and Inger Bojsen Transcending Cultural Boundaries for Human and Organization Development: Experiences of International Exchange Between India and the United States Uma Jain

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Details

• NCID: BA49566360
• ISBN:
  • 0824703936
• LCCN: 00060195
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 805 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD58.7
  • DC21 : 302.3/5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Organizational behavior
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00227553