Organizational Behavior: Securing Competitive Advantage

The management of organizational behavior is a critically important source of competitive advantage in today’s organizations. Managers must be able to capitalize on employees’ individual differences as jobs are designed, teams are formed, work is structured, and change is facilitated. This textbook, now in its third edition, provides its readers with the knowledge required to succeed as managers under these circumstances.

In this book, John Wagner and John Hollenbeck make the key connection between theory and practice to help students excel as managers charged with the task of securing competitive advantage. They present students with a variety of helpful learning tools, including:

• Coverage of the full spectrum of organizational behavior topics

• Managerial models that are based in many instances on hundreds of research studies and decades of management practice – not the latest fad

• Completely new introductory mini-cases and updated examples throughout the text to help students contextualize organizational behavior theory and understand its application in today’s business world

This ideal book for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of organizational behavior is written to motivate exceptional student performance and contribute to their lasting managerial success. Online resources, including PowerPoint slides and test banks, round out this essential resource for instructors and students of organizational behavior.

John A. Wagner III is Professor of Management at Michigan State University, USA. He has

served as an associate editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly and as a member of the

editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Management , in

addition to having published in top-tier journals.

John R. Hollenbeck is University Distinguished Professor and Broad Professor of

Management at Michigan State University, USA. He has served as acting editor of

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , associate editor of Decision Sciences ,

and editor of Personnel Psychology and has published over 80 articles and book chapters.