Culture and Organizational Behaviour - Softcover

Sinha, Jai B P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8178298961 ISBN 13: 9788178298962

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Culture and Organizational Behaviour is a textbook for management studies that highlights the effect of the confluence of Western and Indian cultural influences. It adheres to the syllabi of the organizational behaviour courses followed in most major universities and management institutes. The book presents basic knowledge of organizational behaviour as developed in the West, adds to these the latest global research findings, and situates them in the Indian cultural perspective. It also highlights the issues that emanate from the interface of the Indian culture and organizational behaviour.

Key Features:
- Contains updated case studies from Indian organizations
- Focuses on current and emerging strategies in organizational structures, leadership, power and politics
- Covers topics like balancing work and other responsibilities, power and politics, and conflict and negotiation, which, though extremely crucial to organizational behaviour, have perhaps not got due attention in the existing literature
- Presents the relatively unexplored effects of Indian culture on organizational behaviour. Provides a platform where both theoretical and practical issues can be addressed by managers, researchers, students and teachers alike.

About this title

About the Author:

Jai B.P. Sinha is Professor, Psychology and Management at the ASSERT Institute of Management Studies, Patna. He has a long-standing career of over 40 years in research and teaching. He is an authority on cultural influences on organizational behaviour. He taught psychology in Bihar, Ranchi, and Patna universities. He was a Visiting Professor at Hunter College, New York, and Wake Forest University, NC (USA), where he taught social psychology. He taught cross-cultural management courses during his tenure as a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal (Canada). In 2005, he was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Management at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Professor Sinha is also a well-known writer and has authored several books. His latest publications include Patterns of Work Culture: Cases and Strategies for Culture Building (SAGE 2000), Managing Cultural Diversity for Productivity: The Asian Ways (ed.) (Asian Productivity Organization 2000), and Multinationals in India: Managing the Interface of Cultures (SAGE 2004).

Review:

The book has well researched content and excellently covers the basic knowledge of organizational behaviour and the advancements in the field...It captures organizational behaviour and issues with well-woven essence of the Indian organizations in its text...the author has tried to blend the theory with the practical aspects of organizational behaviour through appropriate use of examples, interesting case-lets and exercises. List of tables, boxes and figures, proper referencing and indexing make the navigation through the book really easy and clear. Avoidance of jargons and use of simple language makes it very useful for the readers. Author: Abhigyan

The book presents the basic knowledge of organizational behaviour as developed in the West, and stimulates the research in the Indian cultural perspective. The book will be of immense use to students and teachers of organizational behaviour in the faculty of management.

Author: The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations

One of the best contributions which provides a considerable knowledge about organizational behavior as it has developed in the West and situates them in the Indian cultural perspective...provides insights to help readers to get in-depth understanding of contents in a precise manner.... The book is a comprehensive read and has successfully handled the challenge of broad-basing and replicating the existing thought of theories and practices of organizational behavior evolved in Western countries in Indian context. The chapters of the book end with summary of the key-points, self-administrable exercises and detailed case studies which add value to book. On the whole the book is a great contribution on the subject and is certainly to benefit academic readers, researchers and management students. 

Author: South Asian Journal of Management

The book has well researched content and excellently covers the basic knowledge of organizational behaviour and the advancements in the field...It captures organizational behaviour and issues with well-woven essence of the Indian organizations in its text.
Author: Abhigyan

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 8178298961
• ISBN 13: 9788178298962
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448