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For one-semester, undergraduate/graduate level courses in Organizational Behavior.

George/Jones uses real world examples, thought- and discussion-provoking learning activities and the latest organizational behavior research to help students become more engaged in what they are learning.

For one-semester, undergraduate/graduate level courses in Organizational Behavior.

George/Jones uses real world examples, thought- and discussion-provoking learning activities and the latest organizational behavior research to help students become more engaged in what they are learning.

How do you incorporate real world examples into your organizational behavior course to help students feel the subject is relevant?  What resources do you use to incorporate real world examples?  Would you be interested in a book that incorporated all this for you?

New York Times Cases in the News — These are very recent articles from the New York Times that illustrate chapter content, show chapter content in a different and very relevant light, and illuminate some of the challenges and opportunities for OB related to the chapter content.  They are excellent active-learning cases both for individual reflection and critical thinking and meaningful class discussion.

• p. 102-105; 140-144

In-Text Features — The text reflects all the current and pressing concerns facing organizations, managers, and employees today.  In four different types of in-text boxes (OB Today, Ethics in Action, Focus on Diversity and Global View), George/Jones provide up-to-date, real world examples that bring the content of each chapter to life and engage students to actively think about what they are learning.  They are different from similar features in most other textbooks in that they are directly integrated into the text material to highlight and illustrate significant points.

OB Today: showcases real-world companies and relates its practices to those illustrated by concepts discussed in the text. For example, Dick’s Drive-In Restaurants and effectively managing employees (Chapter 1).

•                         Ex. Pg. 10, 24

Ethics in Action: discusses current events issues that encourage the student to think about and discuss organizational ethics and morality. For example, the rose-growing industry in underdeveloped countries that have low health and safety laws to protect the workers who grow the roses (Chapter 1).

•                         Ex. Pg. 17, 123

Focus on Diversity: highlights real-life issues that deal with diversity in the workplace and accepting difference. For example, organizations like Home Depot, Borders Bookstores, and Wal-Mart actively trying to recruit older workers while others are dealing with lawsuits due to wrongfully firing this age group (Chapter 4).

•                         Ex. Pg. 116

Global View: showcases business practices around the globe and the benefit of employing a diverse workforce. For example, how IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad operates under the same values he was raised with in his small Swedish hometown (Chapter 1).

•                         Ex. Pg. 21, 81

How do you get students involved and excited about organizational behavior material?

Small Group Breakout Exercise — This is an in-class exercise located at the end of each chapter to be completed in small groups of 2-5 students.  The exercise challenges students to examine, reflect, and share their own experiences vis-à-vis a specific, key question related to the chapter content.  They then analyze their collective experiences and come away with conclusions/lessons-learned that they share with the class as a whole.

•             Ex. Pg. 101

Experiential Exercises — This is an in-depth team-based exercise at the end of each chapter that presents students with a real-life problem in organizational behavior that they address based on the chapter content.  It challenges students to apply what they have learned to a specific kind of challenge in organizational behavior.  By doing this first in a team, and then hearing other teams’ solutions, students are enlightened about multiple issues and perspectives.

•             Ex. Pg. 101

“You’re the Management Expert”— Each chapter includes an in-text exercise, “You’re the Management Expert,” which calls upon students to use what they have learned in the chapter thus far and develop and practice their skills.  This exercise presents students with a realistic problem an employee in an organization encounters; students apply what they have learned by developing a solution to the problem.

•             Ex. Pg. 98, 131

“Exercises in Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior” — This unit found at the end of each chapter includes a wider range of activities to help students solidify their knowledge and build and practice their skills.  George/Jones have carefully developed these exercises to provide instructors with both flexibility and variety for use in large and small classes, as in-class exercises and out-of-class assignments, and to be done individually and in groups.  An overriding goal of these exercises is to help students appreciate that there are often no absolute answers to organizational behavior issues and that they must use what they have learned to understand and analyze particular situations, develop and compare alternative courses of action, and generate options for solutions.

• Ex. Pg. 100

OB: Increasing Self-Awareness — This exercise located at the end of every chapter challenges students to analyze experiences from their own lives and the lives of those they interact with based on the chapter content.  It shows students how very applicable the chapter content is to everyday life in and around organizations and how it can help them interpret and understand what they encounter.  It builds their perceptual skills — seeing and understanding things at a deeper level now that they have mastered the material in the chapter.

•             Ex. Pg. 100

A Question of Ethics — This exercise at the end of each chapter presents students with a fundamental ethical challenge or dilemma that directly relates to the chapter content.  It pushes them to think about ethical implications of different OB topics that ordinarily might not have occurred to them.  It also encourages them to develop their own perspective and develop their ethical reasoning skills.  This exercise also works well for an in-class discussion once students have worked through it individually.

•             Ex. Pg. 101

Topic for Debate — This exercise after each chapter forces students to actively think about what they have learned and approach it from an informed and critical perspective.  Student teams are assigned one side of a fundamental debate in the substantive area of the chapter to develop and present arguments to support it.  This exercise makes students think about chapter content at a deeper level.  Debates, rebuttals, and questions from the audience fire up students’ involvement and spark a high level of class participation.

•             Ex. Pg. 101

Questions for Discussion and Review — In this section, George/Jones provide a set of specific questions to stimulate class discussion and help students review chapter material.

•             Ex. Pg. 100

What topics are most important to you when integrating the ever changing world of organizational behavior into your course? Ethics? Globalization?  Technology?

Updated Throughout.Topics and issues that relate to Organizational Behavior are constantly changing; therefore the 5/e includes up-to-date discussion points pulled from recent developments in large companies such as Google, General Mills, and Costco. Reviewers have asked to keep the text lively and current and we’ve done so by incorporating headline news stories such as off-shoring and outsourcing in global businesses and the controversial issue of pay differentiation within organizations.

• Off-shoring, Ch. 7's Global View Feature, p. 232
• Global Outsourcing, Ch. 1, p. 28; Ch. 5's Opening Case; Ch. 8 covered throughout
• Pay differentiation Ch. 8, p. 265

Extended coverage of ethics, ethical behavior and social responsibility.  Now there is a more in-depth coverage of ethics both in terms of new content areas within chapters and the many kinds of company examples used to illustrate what organizations can do to curb individual self-interest and promote ethical organizational behavior.  In addition, many specific issues, such as ethical dilemmas, ethical leadership, building a socially responsible culture and the role of ethics officers.

Ethics in Action: discusses current events issues that encourage the student to think about and discuss organizational ethics and morality. For example, the rose-growing industry in underdeveloped countries that have low health and safety laws to protect the workers who grow the roses (Chapter 1).

•             Ex. Pg. 17, 123

Extended coverage of the opportunities and challenges globalization and diversity pose for understanding and managing organizational behavior today.  A new theme carried throughout the text of Global Crisis Management.  Many of the New York Times cases at the end of each chapter were chosen because they help provide further insights into global and diversity themes developed within the chapters.

• Global Crisis Management theme covered throughout, but introduced Ch. 1, p. 23

Expanded an already extensive coverage of how digital and wireless communication are changing the work place.

• Chapter 14, p. 481

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How do you integrate the ever changing world of organizational behavior into your course? What topics are most important to you: ethics, globalization, technology?

What topics are most important to you when integrating the ever changing world of organizational behavior into your course? Ethics? Globalization?  Technology?

Updated Throughout.Topics and issues that relate to Organizational Behavior are constantly changing; therefore the 5/e includes up-to-date discussion points pulled from recent developments in large companies such as Google, General Mills, and Costco. Reviewers have asked to keep the text lively and current and we’ve done so by incorporating headline news stories such as off-shoring and outsourcing in global businesses and the controversial issue of pay differentiation within organizations.

• Off-shoring, Ch. 7's Global View Feature, p. 232
• Global Outsourcing, Ch. 1, p. 28; Ch. 5's Opening Case; Ch. 8 covered throughout
• Pay differentiation Ch. 8, p. 265

Extended coverage of ethics, ethical behavior and social responsibility.  Now there is a more in-depth coverage of ethics both in terms of new content areas within chapters and the many kinds of company examples used to illustrate what organizations can do to curb individual self-interest and promote ethical organizational behavior.  In addition, many specific issues, such as ethical dilemmas, ethical leadership, building a socially responsible culture and the role of ethics officers.

Ethics in Action: discusses current events issues that encourage the student to think about and discuss organizational ethics and morality. For example, the rose-growing industry in underdeveloped countries that have low health and safety laws to protect the workers who grow the roses (Chapter 1).

•             Ex. Pg. 17, 123

Extended coverage of the opportunities and challenges globalization and diversity pose for understanding and managing organizational behavior today.  A new theme carried throughout the text of Global Crisis Management.  Many of the New York Times cases at the end of each chapter were chosen because they help provide further insights into global and diversity themes developed within the chapters.

• Global Crisis Management theme covered throughout, but introduced Ch. 1, p. 23

Expanded an already extensive coverage of how digital and wireless communication are changing the work place.

• Chapter 14, p. 481

Refined many of the experiential exercises and now provides New York Times cases at the end of each chapter.  These articles provide instructors with the opportunity to discuss organizational behavior issues that are currently in the news.  There are also experiential exercises located in the instructor’s manual.

New York Times Cases in the News – These are very recent articles from the New York Times that illustrate chapter content, show chapter content in a different and very relevant light, and illuminate some of the challenges and opportunities for OB related to the chapter content.  They are excellent active-learning cases both for individual reflection and critical thinking and meaningful class discussion.

•             Ex. Pg. 102-105; 140-144

Experiential Exercises – This is an in-depth team-based exercise at the end of each chapter that presents students with a real-life problem in organizational behavior that they address based on the chapter content.  It challenges students to apply what they have learned to a specific kind of challenge in organizational behavior.  By doing this first in a team, and then hearing other teams’ solutions, students are enlightened about multiple issues and perspectives.

•                                 Ex. Pg. 101

This text is available for personalization in the PHCBR custom database program.  Select only the chapters you require or supplement with recommended case studies all under one cover.  CLICK HERE to go directly to the PHCBR book-build site or visit our product page for additional information at pearsoncustom.com/business.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Organizational Behavior   

     Appendix: Research Methods in Organizational Behavior

Part I. Individuals In Organizations                                                   

Chapter 2. Individual Differences: Personality and Ability

Chapter 3. Values, Attitudes, and Moods and Emotions      

Chapter 4. Perception, Attribution, and the Management of Diversity   

Chapter 5. Learning and Creativity

Chapter 6. The Nature of Work Motivation   

Chapter 7. Creating a Motivating Work Setting   

Chapter 8. Pay, Careers, and Changing Employment Relationships   

Chapter 9. Managing Stress and Work-Life Balance                                      

Part II.   Group And Team Processes     

Chapter 10. The Nature of Work Groups and Teams   

Chapter 11. Effective Work Groups and Teams

Chapter 12. Leaders and Leadership         

Chapter 13. Power, Politics, Conflict, and Negotiation  

Chapter 14. Communication in Organizations  

Chapter 15. Decision Making and Organizational Learning

Topic III.   Organizational Processes

Chapter 16. Organizational Design and Structure

Chapter 17. Organizational Culture and Ethical Behavior

Chapter 18. Organization Change and Development

Organizational Behavior  [CORE TEXTS]   (Management)

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