Organizational Behaviour: Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace

Colquitt/Gellatly, Third Edition continues to offer an innovative style to teaching OB through a pop-culture approach versus the traditional, old-school, and sometimes, outdated approach. The Third Edition features The Mindy Project as the cover; a single-camera comedy TV show that follows Mindy, a skilled OB/GYN who shares a practice with other doctors and staff. Each character brings their quirky, at times, politically incorrect, personalities to the office, which makes for excellent OB discussion points. The cover is reflective of the content, in that Colquitt is an OB title that students enjoy reading; it is current, informal and conversational in style with examples that are compelling with engaging pedagogy that also entertains!

Colquitt/Gellatly, Organizational Behaviour organizes the chapters around an integrative model of OB that provides students with a roadmap of the course showing them where they’ve been and where they’re going. Chapters are tightly focused on specific topics, for example the introductory section contains two chapters on topics not included as stand-alone chapters in other books: job performance and organizational commitment. After describing these topics in detail, every remaining chapter in the book links that chapter’s content to performance and commitment. Students can then better appreciate the practical relevance of organizational behaviour concepts. Solidly based in contemporary research but written in a conversational style, Colquitt/Gellatly has found a way to bring organizational behaviour to students without sacrificing academic rigour or the theoretical foundations behind contemporary OB topics.

Jason A. Colquitt is the Franklin D. Schurz Professor in the Department of Management & Organization at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. He previously served as a faculty member at the University of Georgia and the University of Florida. Professor Colquitt received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business and earned his B.S. in Psychology from Indiana University. His research interests include justice, trust, work meaning, and personality. He has published almost fifty articles on these and other topics in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, among other outlets. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of Academy of Management Journal and previously served as an Associate Editor for that journal. Professor Colquitt is currently serving on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Administrative Science Quarterly. He is a recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award and the Cummings Scholar Award for early to mid-career achievement, sponsored by the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management. He also authors one of the top-selling organizational behavior textbooks, now in its seventh edition.

Jeffery A. LePine is the PetSmart Chair in Leadership in the Department of Management at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. He also earned an MS in Management from Florida State University and a BS in Finance from the University of Connecticut. He has taught organizational behavior, human resource management, and management of groups and teams at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Ian R. Gellatly is a professor in the department of strategic management and organization at the University of Alberta's School of Business. He received his PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to joining the University of Alberta in 1998, Ian taught in the faculty of management at the University of Lethbridge. Ian teaches a variety of undergraduate- and graduate-level seminars. At the undergraduate level, Ian teaches courses in organizational behaviour, human resource management, staffing, and performance management and rewards. Within the MBA program, Ian has taught human resource management. Ian is active in the PhD program and teaches the doctoral seminar in organizational behaviour.

Ian's research interests include: (a) the three-component model of organizational commitment, (b) employees' motivation to engage in a variety of work behaviours (e.g., performance, citizenship), (c) the personal and social/organizational determinants of employee absenteeism, and (d) personality-behaviour relations.

Michael J. Wesson is Professor of Management in Auburn University’s Raymond J. Harbert College of Business. He received his PhD from Michigan State University’s Eli Broad Graduate School of Management. He also holds an MS in human resource management from Texas A&M University and a BBA from Baylor University. He was previously on faculty at Texas A&M University. He has taught organizational behavior and human resource management–
based classes at the undergraduate, graduate, executive, and doctoral levels. He has received awards for teaching excellence both at the college and university levels. He is currently chair of the management department at Harbert. Michael’s research interests include organizational justice, leadership, organizational entry (employee recruitment, selection, and socialization), person–organization fit, and compensation and benefits. His articles have been published in journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Review, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He has served on several editorial boards and has been an ad hoc reviewer for many others. He is active in the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Prior to returning to school, Michael worked as a human resources manager for a Fortune 500 firm. He has served as a consultant to the automotive supplier, health care, oil and gas, and technology industries in areas dealing with recruiting, selection, onboarding, compensation, and turnover. Michael spends most of his time trying to keep up with his wife, Liesl, and son, Dylan. He is a self-admitted food and wine snob, supporter of the performing arts, and a college sports addict.