Organisational Behaviour: Core Concepts and Applications

Organisational Behaviour: Core Concepts and Applications, Third Australasian edition  is the ideal text for a one–semester Organisational Behaviour course. Fourteen concise, relevant and tightly focused chapters are designed to engage rather than overwhelm students, and the highly visual presentation further enhances the text’s appeal. Numerous real–world examples throughout the text examine how organisations in the Australian, New Zealand and Asian region are responding to contemporary business issues such as: the increasing focus on sustainable business practices employee stress and work–life balance workforce flexibility and casualisation generation Y and the ageing workforce skills shortages globalisation telecommuting outsourcing diversity in the workplace the ‘24/7’ nature of contemporary communication technology, including social media. Complemented by the latest research in the eld, this text provides a thorough analysis of contemporary organisational behaviour.

Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1 What is organisational behaviour? Part 2: Managing individual behaviour and performance Chapter 2 Individual attributes and their effects on job performance Chapter 3 Motivation and empowerment Chapter 4 Learning, reinforcement and self–management Chapter 5 Job design, goal setting and flexible work arrangements Part 3: Managing group dynamics and team performance Chapter 6 Groups and group dynamics Chapter 7 Teamwork and team building Part 4: Managing organisational processes and performance Chapter 8 Organisational structure and design Chapter 9 Organisational culture Chapter 10 Power, politics and influence in organisations Chapter 11 Leadership Chapter 12 Decision–making Chapter 13 Communication, conflict and negotiation in organisations Chapter 14 Organisational change and innovation End of Book Case Studies: Google, Qantas, News Corporation