Organizational Behavior [antikvár]

Preface In previous editions of this textbook, we omitted what we considered passing fads and simplistic prescriptions for practice. We tried, instead, to make our case for a durable and viable conceptual approach to organizational behavior. In this edition, our challenge was to maintain that tradition while providing a framework responsive to the needs of a different era — an era of turbulent changes in the business environment and one in which business education is accountable to its varied stakeholders. To this end, we have made the following changes in the fourth edition: • We have, as before, updated the record to note important developments within organizational behavior and its sister disciplines. For example, one of the interesting developments in OB research and theory in the late 1980s concerned the reconceptualization and reappraisal of the role of individual differences in job satisfaction, job stress, and performance; we have traced the implications of this work for various issues in the workplace. • We have noted the significant developments of the late 1980s surrounding the work experience. For example, we find an increasing emphasis on experimental approaches to employee compensation as a means by which organizations tiy to increase commitment and job motivation. We have tried to inform the reader of these approaches and to interpret them from an informed conceptual framework.