Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Revised and Expanded

Robert T. Golembiewski

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2000
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040222188
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Building upon the strengths of the first edition while continuing to extend the influence and reach of organizational behavior (OB), the Second Edition of this groundbreaking reference/ text analyzes OB from a business marketing perspective-offering a thorough treatment of central, soon-to-be central, contiguous, and emerging topics of OB to facilitate greater viability and demand of OB practice.
New edition incorporates more comparative perspectives throughout!
Contributing to the dynamic, interdisciplinary state of OB theory and practice, the Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Second Edition

comprehensively covers strategic and critical issues of the OB field with descriptive analyses and full documentation

details the essential principles defining core OB such as organizational design, structure, culture, leadership theory, and risk taking

advances solutions to setting operational definitions throughout the field

comparatively discusses numerous situations and variables to provide clarity to mixed or inconclusive research findings

utilizes cross-cultural approaches to examine recent issues concerning race, ethnicity, and gender

reevaluates value standards and paradigms of change in OB

investigates cross-national examples of OB development, including case studies from the United States and India

and much more!
Written by 45 worldwide specialists and containing over 3500 references, tables, drawings, and equations, the Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Second Edition is a definitive reference for public administrators, consultants, organizational behavior specialists, behavioral psychologists, political scientists, and sociologists, as well as a necessary and worthwhile text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking organizational behavior courses in the departments of public administration, psychology, management, education, and sociology.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Public Administration And Public Policy
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• 1.  Introduction: Fitting a Market Metaphor to Organizational Behavior Robert T. Golembiewski
• 2.  The Contingency Approach to Organizational Design Paul R. Lawrence
• 3. Work Motivation
• 4.  Motivation by Goal Setting
• 5.  Conservation of Resources Theory: Applications to Stress and Management in the Workplace
• 6.  Small Group Research: Autonomous Teams and Progress on Issues of Context and Levels of Analysis
• 7.  Organizational Culture: It’s Alive! It’s Alive! But There’s No Fixed Address!
• 8.  Organization Design
• 9.Surveying Organizational Structures and Human Resource Practices:
• 10.  Risk Taking in Organizations
• 11.  Leadership Theory in Postmodernist Organizations Karl W. Kuhnert
• 12.  Research on Race and Ethnicity: An Update and Analysis Taylor Cox, Jr., Stella M. Nkorno, and Julia Welch
• 13.  Human Factors in Information Systems
• 14.  Psychological Burnout in Organizations: Research and Intervention Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen
• 15.  Managing Organizational Conflict: Challenges for Organization Development and Change
• 16.  Entrepreneurial Phenomena in a Cross-National Context
• 17.  Work-Family Role Conflict and Employer Responsibility: An Organizational Analysis of Workplace Responses to a Social Problem
• 18.  Management Training and Development
• 19.  Valuing Diversity in a Global Economy: The Sad State of Organizations and Gender
• 20.  Wisdom’s Critical Requirement for Scientific Objectivity in Organizational Behavior Research: Explicit Reporting of Researcher Values
• 21.  Postmodernism: Implications for Organization Theory?
• 22.  Behavioral Research in Auditing: A Review and Synthesis
• 23.  Hegemonic Masculinity and Organizational Behavior Martin Kilduff
• 24.  A Positive Revolution in Change: Appreciative Inquiry David L. Cooperrider and Diana Whitney
• 25.  Paradigms in Organizational Change: Change Agent and Change Target Perspectives
• 26.  Compensation: Trends and Expanding Horizons
• 27.  A Way Out of No Way? Strategy, Structure, and the “New Governance” Robert F. Durant
• 28.  A New Perspective on Organizing in Industry John Parm Ulhfii, Urs E. Gattiker, and Inger Boj sen
• 29.  Transcending Cultural Boundaries for Human and Organization Development: Experiences of International Exchanges Between India and the United States Uma Jain
• Author Index
• Index