Synopsis
Organizational Behavior helps everyone make sense of OB and provides the conceptual tools to work more effectively in the workplace. It emphasizes emerging OB knowledge with globally focused, real-world examples and evidence-based literature. This book presents the reality that organizational behavior is not just for managers; it is relevant and valuable to anyone who works in and around organizations. The authors explain how design thinking and agile methodologies are improving creativity and decision making in organizations; how self-concept is a significant determinant of individual behavior, team cohesion, and leadership; how employees increasingly communicate and coordinate through emerging digital channels; how emotions influence employee motivation, attitudes, and decisions; and how global mindset has become an important employee attribute in this increasingly diverse and inclusive interconnected world.
About the Author
Steven L. McShane is Conjoint Professor at Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle (Australia). He previously held the positions of Adjunct Professor at Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria (Canada), Professor at Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Business Administration (Canada), and Winthrop Professor of Management at the University of Western Australia Graduate School of Management and Business School. He currently teaches organizational behavior in the IMBA program at the Antai College of Economics and Management atShanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. Steve has received awards for his teaching quality and innovation, and receives high ratings from students in Perth, Shanghai, Singapore, Manila, and other cities where he has taught. He is alsoa popular visiting speaker, having given dozens of invited talks and seminars to faculty and students in the United States, China, Canada, Malaysia, India, and other countries.Steve earned his PhD from Michigan State University, where he specialized in organizational behavior and labor relations. He also holds a Master’s of Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto and an undergraduate degree from Queen’s University in Canada. Steve is a past president of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (the Canadian equivalent of the Academy of Management) and served as Director of Graduate Programs in Simon Fraser University’s business faculty. He has conducted executive programs with Nokia, TÜV-SÜD, Wesfarmers Group, Main Roads WA, McGraw-Hill, ALCOA World Alumina Australia, and many other organizations. Along with coauthoring Organizational Behavior, Ninth Edition, Steve is lead coauthor of Canadian Organizational Behaviour, Tenth Edition (2018), Organisational Behaviour: Asia Pacific, Sixth Edition (2019), and M: Organizational Behavior, Fourth Edition (2019). He is also coauthor of editions or translations of his organizational behavior books in other countries. Steve has published several dozen articles and conference papers on workplace values, training transfer, organizational learning, exit–voice–loyalty, employee socialization, wrongful dismissal, media biasin business magazines, and other diverse topics. Steve enjoys spending his leisure time hiking, swimming, body board surfing, canoeing, skiing, and traveling with his wife and two daughters.
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