Description
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Organizational Behaviour, 11th Edition, by Buchanan and Huczynski offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject. This market-leading textbook blends social science principles with critical thinking tools, drawing clear connections between theory and practice. The popular text explores how organizations influence our views and actions, and how we can explain the behaviour of people within these organizations.
Drawing from personal experiences, this definitive textbook encourages you to engage with the concept of organizations in society besides your standard academic resources.
Fully updated to reflect recent cutting-edge research, modern working practices and topical issuesThe new edition covers topics including:
- Power inequalities
- Equality, inclusion, diversity considerations
- Going green - how investment and insurance companies encourage environmental responsibility
- Code switching - adjusting language, personality, behaviour, and appearance to 'fit in'
- Hybrid working - impacts on home-based workers and relationships with office-based colleagues
- Are female leaders more effective in a crisis? - lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
- 2020 Beirut Explosion - how did that happen, and was it a management problem?
- Offshoring, onshoring, reshoring, nearshoring, friend-shoring - the future of globalization
- Socially responsible investment
- Cultural differences in understanding body language
- Teamwork old and new - how groups in organizations have changed
- Workplace hazing - how common are the unofficial practices of initiating newcomers with degrading behaviour?
About the Author
David A. Buchanan is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Cranfield University School of Management.
Andrzej A. Huczynski has held research and lecturing posts at the Universities of Westminster, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Book Information
ISBN 9781292417813
Author David Buchanan
Format Paperback
Page Count 856
Imprint Pearson Education Limited
Publisher Pearson Education Limited
Weight(grams) 1580g
Dimensions(mm) 265mm * 197mm * 36mm
