ESCP Europe

"The fully revised edition of this successful text offers a definitive, multidisciplinary, social science based approach to organizational behaviour. The content is academically rigorous, with an engaging and interesting style. It provides readers with concepts, theories, models and frameworks to help understand behaviour in organizations. Readers are encouraged to challenge current thinking in relation to their own ideas and experiences, exploring other perspectives. The text also shows how organizational behaviour ideas and methods apply in practical settings." - from back cover.

1. Prologue --- PART. 1 THE ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT --- 2 . The world outside --- 3. Technology ---PART. 2 INDIVIDUALS IN THE ORGANIZATION --- 4. Learning --- 5. Personality --- 6. Communication --- 7. Perception --- 8. Motivation --- PART. 3 GROUPS AND TEAMS IN THE ORGANIZATION --- 9. Group formation --- 10. Group structure --- 11. Individuals in groups --- 12. Teamworking --- PART. 4 ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES --- 13. Traditional work design --- 14. Elements of structure --- 15. Early organization design --- 16. Organization strategy and design --- PART. 5 ORGANIZATION PROCESSES --- 17. Organization development --- 18. Organizational change --- 19. Organization culture --- 20. Human resource management --- PART. 6 ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT --- 21. Leadership --- 22. Decision making --- 23. Conflict --- 24. Power and politics.