The Effective Manager's Guide to Organizational Behavior: An Anthology

The Effective Manager's Guide to Organizational Behavior: An Anthology provides students with valuable readings to help them better understand principle concepts and ideas behind interpersonal dynamics within organizations. The information presented in the book equips readers with the skills and knowledge they will need to build and support critical working relationships with employees and other organizational stakeholders in their future careers.

Opening chapters define organizational behavioral and speak to the objective to uphold the pursuit of diversity, equity, and inclusivity standard within organizations. Additional chapters introduce the major components of individual difference that are common among all people. Students learn how the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive aspects of an individual interact to form their attitudes, values, and motivations for work. Curated readings explore how teams form and function, how power and leadership are exercised by team members, how conflict should be approached and resolved, and more.

Designed to help future leaders effectively manage and support the organizations within which they work, The Effective Managers Guide to Organizational Behavior is ideal for business course, including organizational behavior, organizational leadership, and human resource management.

Edward De La Torre, Ed.D., MBA is a lecturer of management in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton. His academic research interests include generational differences, organizational communication, personality and interpersonal dynamics, and exercise and work-life balance.