Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior - Hardcover

Jennifer-m-george; Gareth R. Jones

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201532107 ISBN 13: 9780201532104

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1995

Synopsis

This text reflects current concerns facing organizations, their managers and workers, as well as combining cutting edge research with many accessible learning features. The book contains sections focusing on ethics, diversity, global issues and competitive advantage. Also included are opening and closing cases which provide more illustrations of companies applying concepts explained in the chapter. The book helps to build diagnostic skills by asking students questions and encouraging them to use their answers to analyze the theory being discussed in the chapter. It also discusses the relationship between moods, values and attitudes.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Information Technology . . . Globalization of Business . . . New Challenges in Organizational Behavior Call for a New Approach!

In the third edition of Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior, authors Jennifer George and Gareth Jones merge comprehensive coverage with outstanding applications to show you how to best manage the growing challenges associated with working in today's modem organizations.

About the Author

Jennifer M. George is the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. She received her B.A. in Psychology/Sociology from Wesleyan University, her M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, and her Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior from New York University. Prior to joining the faculty at Rice University, she was a Professor in the Department of Management at Texas A&M University. Professor George specializes in Organizational Behavior and is well known for her research on mood and emotion in the workplace, their determinants, and their effects on various individual and group level work outcomes. She is the author of many articles in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Psychological Bulletin. One of her papers won the Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior Division Outstanding Competitive Paper Award and another paper won the Human Relations Best Paper Award. She is, or has been, on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Managerial Issues, was a consulting editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and is a member of the Organizational Frontiers Series editorial board. She is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior. Professor George also has co-authored a leading textbook on management.

Gareth Jones received both his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Lancaster, U.K. He previously held teaching and research appointments at the University of Warwick, Michigan State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Jones specializes in both organizational behavior and organizational theory and is well known for his research on socialization, culture, and applying transaction cost analysis to explain many forms of intraorganizational and interorganizational behavior. He also has published many articles in leading journals of the field and is one of the most prolific authors in the Academy of Management Review. One of his articles won the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award. He is, or has been, on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and Management Inquiry.

Professor Jones is a professor of Management at the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University, where he is involved actively in teaching and research in Organizational Behavior and related fields.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0201532107
• ISBN 13: 9780201532104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 800