Organizational Behavior: Securing Competitive Advantage - Hardcover

Wagner, John A.; Hollenbeck, John R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0324259956 ISBN 13: 9780324259957

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 2004

Synopsis

Organizational Behavior, 5h edition is a comprehensive and research based examination of modern organizational behavior. The authors present organizational behavior as a way to develop and extend a competitive advantage over the competition. The text has been fully updated and revised to include the latest thinking in organizational behavior research, include interesting and engaging cases and exercises, and a wide range of topics that are important to organizations today.

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About the Authors

John A Wagner III is Professor and Chair of the Department of Management in the Eli Broad College of Business and Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. Professor Wagner received his Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in management, organizational behavior, and organization theory.
Professor Wagner is a member of the review boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and the Academy of Management Review, and is Editor of Advances in Qualitative Organization Research. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association. In 1989 Professor Wagner was co-recipient of the Scholarly Achievement Award conferred by the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management. In 1993 he received the Research Methods Division's Walter de Gruyter Best Paper Award.
Professor Wagner's research is in the fields of organizational behavior and organization theory. His publications have examined the efficacy of participatory decision making, the effects of individualism-collectivism on cooperation and performance, the effects of size on the performance of groups and organizations, and the long-term effects of incentive payment on group productivity.

John R. Hollenbeck received his Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior from New York University in 1984. He is currently Eli Broad Professor of Management in the Eli Broad College of Business and Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University, where he teaches organizational behavior, human resource management, and organizational research methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Professor Hollenbeck was the first recipient, in 1992, of the Ernest J. McCormick Award for Early Contributions to the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and was a Teacher-Scholar Award winner in 1987 at Michigan State University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has served on the editorial boards of journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Management. Professor Hollenbeck is currently Editor of Personnel Psychology.
Professor Hollenbeck has published in the areas of organizational behavior and human resource management. His current research focuses on self-regulation theories of work motivation, employee separation and acquisition processes, and team decision making and performance

Edition details

• Publisher: South-Western College Pub
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0324259956
• ISBN 13: 9780324259957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 784