Organizational Behaviour, 11th edition is well-known for its accessible content around themes such as people's behaviour, personality study, and communication, challenging students to explore these concepts drawing from their personal, everyday experiences and helping them develop their critical understanding of the organisational environment.

Develop a critical understanding of organizational behaviour Ranked as one of the top 10 most influential texts in business and management in the world According to the Financial Times' Teaching Power Rankings 2021 (research by Open Syllabus)

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 issues The 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?

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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.

Inhalt
Part 1 The organizational context

1. Explaining organizational behaviour
2. Environment
3. Technology

4. Culture Part 2 Individuals in the organization

5. Learning
6. Personality
7. Communication
8. Perception

9. Motivation Part 3 Groups and teams in the organization

10. Group formation
11. Group structure
12. Individuals in group

13. Teamworking Part 4 Management and organization

14. Work design
15. Elements of structure
16. Organization design

17. Organizational architecture Part 5 Leadership processes

18. Leadership
19. Change
20. Decision making
21. Conflict
22. Power and politics GlossaryIndex