Organizational Behavior : Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace - Hardcover

Jason Colquitt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070967458 ISBN 13: 9780070967458

Publisher: Richard D Irwin, Inc,2009, 2009

Synopsis

Colquitt Organizational Behaviour: Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace, Canadian Edition, is a different kind of organizational behaviour text. It re-examines how organizational behaviour should be taught and provides the framework to keep students engaged by using an integrative model linking organizational behaviour content back to its ultimate impact on job performance and commitment. Colquitt speaks to students in a language they understand through examples that are engaging and relevant. Solidly based in contemporary research but written in a conversational style, Colquitt has found a way to bring organizational behaviour to students without sacrificing academic rigour or the theoretical foundations behind contemporary OB topics.

Colquitt Organizational Behaviour, Canadian Edition, builds on the success of its US edition by bringing a highly innovative, respected, and talented Canadian researcher and author on board. The Canadian experience is deftly woven into Colquitt through targeted Canadian examples and cases, and a redesigned, streamlined table of contents that covers in depth all the major organizational behaviour topics within the parameters of the Canadian OB course.

Colquitt Organizational Behaviour, Canadian Edition, provides students and instructors with a friendly, accessible text grounded in contemporary theories and models that teach the universal applicability of organizational behaviour while remaining directly and deeply linked to the Canadian experience.

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About the Authors

Jason A. Colquitt is the William H. Willson Distinguished Chair in the Department of Management at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business. He received his PhD from Michigan State University's Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, and earned his BS in Psychology from Indiana University. He has taught organizational behavior and human resource management at the undergraduate, masters, and executive levels and has also taught research methods at the doctoral level. He has received awards for teaching excellence at both the undergraduate and executive levels.

Michael J. Wesson is an associate professor in the management department at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School. He received his PhD from Michigan State University's Eli Broad Graduate School of Management. He also holds an MS in human resource management from Texas A&M University and a BBA from Baylor University. He has taught organizational behaviour and human resource management–based classes at all levels but currently spends most of his time teaching Mays MBAs, EMBAs, and executive development at Texas A&M.

Michael's research interests include organizational justice, goal-setting, organizational entry (employee recruitment, selection, and socialization), person–organization fit, and compensation and benefits.

Jeffery A. LePine is the PetSmart Chair in Leadership in the Department of Management at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. He also earned an MS in Management from Florida State University and a BS in Finance from the University of Connecticut. He has taught organizational behavior, human resource management, and management of groups and teams at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Ian R. Gellatly is a professor in the department of strategic management and organization at the University of Alberta's School of Business. He received his PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to joining the University of Alberta in 1998, Ian taught in the faculty of management at the University of Lethbridge. Ian teaches a variety of undergraduate- and graduate-level seminars. At the undergraduate level, Ian teaches courses in organizational behaviour, human resource management, staffing, and performance management and rewards. Within the MBA program, Ian has taught human resource management. Ian is active in the PhD program and teaches the doctoral seminar in organizational behaviour.

Ian's research interests include: (a) the three-component model of organizational commitment, (b) employees' motivation to engage in a variety of work behaviours (e.g., performance, citizenship), (c) the personal and social/organizational determinants of employee absenteeism, and (d) personality-behaviour relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Richard D Irwin, Inc,2009
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070967458
• ISBN 13: 9780070967458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512