Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations [Hardcover]

Gregory Moorhead (Author), Ricky W. Griffin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1997

Prepare today to become a strong, effective manager tomorrow with the powerful insights, solid concepts, and reader-friendly approach in ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, Ninth Edition. This text equips readers with the skills and practical understanding to meet the management challenges of a new century. Readers delve into the fundamentals of human behavior in today's organizations as the book balances classic management ideas with thorough coverage of the most recent OB developments and contemporary trends. Memorable examples from instantly recognizable organization, such as Facebook, IKEA, New Balance, and the NFL, are woven throughout the book and work with fresh new cases and proven boxed features that focus on pressing issues and reinforce the book's practical perspective. Readers find themselves well equipped and energized for the most exciting task of tomorrow: managing people effectively within competitive organizations.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 622 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div; 5th edition (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395841968
• ISBN-13: 978-0395841969
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,735,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Most helpful and insightful, September 27, 2002

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Manny Hernandez "@askmanny" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Organizational Behavior 6th Edition (Paperback)

The book is fairly comprehensive in terms of its scope. We are currently using the book at our Organizational Behavior class, and it's proved to be an excellent reference. The way it is structured (for the reader) makes in-depth reading or skimming through it (let's face it: this is the reality for most working MBA students!) equally effective. It has clearly distinguishable definitions on the margins, which can serve as a cue for the topic, along with the summaries at the end of every chapter. The intro and closing "cases" provided around the topic of the chapter are VERY insightful and on every other page or so, there are examples about the matter being discussed, which help with the understanding (I know that I, as an Engineer, appreciate examples to illustrate a point). Finally, the illustrations (graphs and charts) are one of the best things the book has! Remember that phrase that used to say "a picture is worth a thousand words"? Well, the authors epithomize it. The charts in the book do a great job at conveying entire pages of information at a time in a very efficient way. All in all, I like the book a lot, and it's been very helpful in complementing our in-class discussions about cases and topics of Organizational Behavior.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book on organizational behavior, December 2, 2007

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This review is from: Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations (Hardcover)

This book presents the most recent research on many aspects of organizational behavior very clearly. Although it is targeted at students learning the material for the first time, people who have had more exposure to the subject could also benefit from reading sections of it.

4.0 out of 5 stars Business or Psychology - Good real-life cases, situations, March 14, 2011

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This review is from: Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations (Hardcover)

Good for its scope of coverage in organizational behavior. I used the book on a course for Organizatinoal Psychology. It can be used for a business course or psychology. While there is so much theory, that perhaps the average manager might not use, there is a lot of food for thought here in helping any leader of a major organization, or mid-size organization, in being competitive in this competitive society, and managing effectively his or her department or company, as a strong individual leader, or wherever you might fit into the big wheel.

I was somewhat inspired by the information and examples in this book. I sold some of my college textbooks, but kept this one along with some others. Well-written and through.