Organisational Behaviour: Core Concepts and Applications

Organisational Behaviour: Core Concepts and Applications, 3rdAustralasian Edition is the ideal text for a one-semesterOrganisational Behaviour course. Fourteen concise, relevant andtightly focused chapters are designed to engage rather thanoverwhelm students, and the highly visual presentation furtherenhances the text’s appeal.

Numerous real-world examples throughout the text examine howorganisations in the Australian, New Zealand and Asian region areresponding to contemporary business issues such as:

•  The increasing focus on sustainable businesspractices
•  Employee stress and work/life balance
•  Workforce flexibility and casualisation
•  Generation Y and the ageing workforce
•  Skills shortages
•  Globalisation
•  Telecommuting
•  Outsourcing
•  Diversity in the workplace
•  The ‘24/7’ nature of contemporarycommunication technology, including social media

Complemented by the latest research in the field, this textprovides a thorough analysis of contemporary organisationalbehaviour.

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Jack Wood (PhD, Alberta, Canada) has held numerous seniormanagement positions in higher education, including DeputyVice-Chancellor International and Corporate at Central QueenslandUniversity; Professor of Management, Associate Dean Internationaland Director of International Programs within the Faculty ofBusiness and Economics at Monash University; MBA Director at boththe University of Sydney and Monash University; and he was theFoundation Professor in Management at Monash–Mt ElizaBusiness School. He has published about ninety articles onmanagement education, and is the author of and a contributor to anumber of books in this field. His major research interests areknowledge management, the virtual workplace, work time options andimprovements to the performance of Australian expatriatemanagement, with special reference to Asia. He has been anAustralian delegate to Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC) meetings in Osaka, Japan, and has also worked as aconsultant for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD) in Paris and for the New Ways to Workorganisationin San Francisco. Jack Wood has served as an executivemember of the Australia and= New Zealand Academy of Management(ANZAM) for a number of years.

Rachid Zeffane BSc Economics (Algiers), MSc (Management) andPhD (Management and Organisational Behaviour) (Wales) is AssociateProfessor and Chairman of the Department of Management, Marketingand Public Administration in the College of BusinessAdministration, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He wasformerly Associate Professor in Management at the Bowater School ofManagement and Marketing, Deakin University, and has also heldacademic positions at Griffith University (Qld) and the Universityof Newcastle (NSW). He has extensive national and internationalexperience in teaching and research in the areas of OrganisationalBehaviour and Management at both undergraduate and postgraduatelevels, and has also led several executive programs. He has overfifty publications in international journals, including two papersselected for the prestigious Classic Research in Management, editedby Professor Derek Pugh (1998). His research work appears inleading international journals such as the International Journal ofHuman Resource Management, Journal of Management Studies, SocialScience Research, Organization Studies, Human Systems Managementand the International Journal of Employment Relations. He has alsoconsulted to major Australian organisations on a variety ofmanagement-related issues and projects.

Michele Fromholtz is an Adjunct Lecturer in Management atCharles Sturt University, New South Wales. She holds a BBA, a BA, aMPA and a GradCertUnivLearn&Teach. She has been employed inpublic sector organisations and involved in several communityorganisations. She has also recently served on boards of directorsfor a local Business Enterprise Centre, a Chamber of Commerce andIndustry and a Writers Centre. Most of her consultancy and researchwork has been in the areas of human behaviour in regional andcommunity development. She also has a strong interest inorganisational culture and workplace folklore, and thedecision-making behaviour of public policy implementers.

Retha Wiesner is an Associate Professor in OrganisationalBehaviour at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Shehas gained extensive experience both in practice and the academe inthe organisational behaviour field. Her major research interestsare in organisational behaviour, human resource management andbusiness sustainability. She is currently conducting a majornational and international study on employee management practicesand organisational change in small- and medium-sized enterprises.She has published extensively in Australia and overseas, and isactively involved as a consultant in Australian organisations. Shehas co-authored seven books in the areas of organisationalbehaviour, management and human resource management.

Rachel Morrison was awarded her PhD in OrganisationalPsychology from Massey University (NZ) after completingpostgraduate and professional qualifications in Applied Psychologyat Auckland University (NZ). She currently runs the OrganisationalBehaviour program within the Faculty of Business at AUT University(NZ). She has published articles in a variety of academicmanagement and psychology journals, and has co-edited the bookFriends and enemies in organizations: a work psychologyperspective, authoring two chapters within the volume. Her researchinterests include relationships in the workplace, gender and equityissues, entrepreneurship, virtual social networks, work–lifebalance, and friendship formation.

Pi-Shen Seet is Associate Professor at the BusinessSchool, Flinders University. Before entering academia, he was anofficer with the Singapore Armed Forces and attended the AustralianArmy Command and Staff College. He obtained his PhD from theUniversity of Cambridge, and has previously worked at theUniversity of Adelaide and the Nanyang Technological University inSingapore. He currently lectures in organisational behaviour,leadership, performance management, international human resourcemanagement and entrepreneurship courses. His current researchinterests include investigating how entrepreneurs and managersovercome leadership, cultural, institutional and commercialdilemmas as they seek to grow their new ventures or transform theirexisting organisations.