ORGB,
7th Edition

Part I: INTRODUCTION.
1. Organizational Behavior and Opportunity.
2. Challenges for Managers.
Part II: INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES AND BEHAVIOR.
3. Personality, Perception, and Attribution.
4. Attitudes, Emotions, and Ethics.
5. Motivation at Work.
6. Learning and Performance Management.
7. Stress and Well-Being at Work.
Part III: INTERPERSONAL PROCESSES AND BEHAVIOR.
8. Communication.
9. Work Teams and Groups.
10. Decision Making by Individuals and Groups.
11. Power and Political Behavior.
12. Leadership and Followership.
13. Conflict and Negotiation.
Part IV: ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES AND STRUCTURE.
14. Jobs and the Design of Work.
15. Organizational Design and Structure.
16. Organizational Culture.
17. Career Management.
18. Managing Change.
Notes.
Index.

• Debra L. Nelson

  Dr. Debra L. Nelson is the Spears School of Business Associates' Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington, where she was the recipient of the R. D. Irwin Dissertation Fellowship Award. Dr. Nelson is the author of over 90 journal articles focusing on organizational stress management, gender at work, and leadership. Her research has been published in the ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE, ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW, MIS QUARTERLY, ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS, JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, and others. In addition, she is coauthor/coeditor of several books, including ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: SCIENCE, THE REAL WORLD, AND YOU; POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (Sage, 2007); ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP (South-Western, Cengage Learning, 2004); GENDER, WORK STRESS, AND HEALTH (American Psychological Association, 2002); ADVANCING WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT (Blackwell, 2002); and PREVENTIVE STRESS MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS (American Psychological Association, 1997). Dr. Nelson has also served as a consultant to several organizations including AT&T, American Fidelity Assurance, Sonic, State Farm Insurance, and Southwestern Bell. She has presented leadership and preventive stress management seminars for a host of organizations, including Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Conoco/Phillips and the Federal Aviation Administration. She has been honored with the Greiner Graduate Teaching Award, the Chandler-Frates and Reitz Graduate Teaching Award, the Regents' Distinguished Teaching Award, the Regents' Distinguished Research Award, and the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award at OSU. Dr. Nelson also serves on the editorial review boards of the JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, JOURNAL OF LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES, and LEADERSHIP.

• James Campbell Quick

  Dr. James Campbell (Jim) Quick is John and Judy Goolsby Distinguished Professor in the Goolsby Leadership Academy, Distinguished Professor in the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, and Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Department of Management, College of Business at The University of Texas at Arlington. He earned an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. at the University of Houston. He completed postgraduate courses in behavioral medicine (Harvard Medical School) and combat stress (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio). Dr. Quick is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the American Institute of Stress. Dr. Quick's and his brother's signature theory is preventive stress management, now in the APA Dictionary of Psychology (2007). Dr. Quick has over 100 books, book chapters, journal articles, and clinical monographs in 10 languages. Dr. Quick's awards and recognitions include Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Beta Delta honor societies membership; The Maroon Citation (Colgate University Alumni Corporation, 1993); 2002 Harry and Miriam Levinson Award (American Psychological Foundation); and a Presidential Citation (American Psychological Association, 2001). Quick won the 2007-2008 Honors College Outstanding Faculty Award and 2009 Award for Distinguished Record of Research at UT Arlington. Colonel Quick, United States Air Force Reserve (Ret.) was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology, 59th Medical Wing (1999) and Visiting Scholar, United States Military Academy at West Point (2007). His awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, and National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Star. He currently serves by appointment from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on the Defense Health Board's Psychological Health External Advisory Subcommittee.

• Janaki Gooty

  Dr. Janaki Gooty is a professor in the management department at the Belk College of Business and Organizational Science, an interdisciplinary doctoral program at UNC Charlotte. She serves as director of the MBA program (BCOB) and of the dual MBA program with EGADE Business School in Monterrey, Mexico. Her research focuses on inclusion, values/ethics, and the role of emotions in leadership at multiple levels of analyses. Her research has appeared in elite leadership and research methods outlets such as ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS, JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT and LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY. Dr. Gooty is the senior associate editor at LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY and has previously served as an associate editor at JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. She also was a guest co-editor of two special issues at LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY and served on the editorial boards of other journals. She has served as past president, president, president-elect, program chair, program chair elect and representative to the Board of Governors of the Southern Management Association (SMA), which is the largest affiliate of the Academy of Management (AoM) and the governing body for the elite JOURNAL OF MANAGMENT (JOM) and newly launched JOM SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. In addition, she served as representative at large (2016-2019) for the Research Methods Division (RMD) of the Academy of Management. She is an elected Fellow of SMA and a short course instructor with Consortium for Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA). She won the Leadership Quarterly Best Paper Award in 2021, the Dean’s award for DEI in 2021 and the Charlotte Business Journal Women in Business Award in 2023. Dr. Gooty has presented her work and conducted leadership trainings in multiple venues locally, nationally and internationally with a special focus on leadership of underrepresented groups in corporate and executive leadership settings.

• The new co-author, Janaki Gooty, is well known for her research on emotions in the workplace and the creation of race- and gender-neutral definitions of leadership. Her unique voice lends a contemporary research theme to the book.

• Diversity Dialogues include real-world scenarios and questions posed to students so they can learn from diversity, equity and inclusion challenges.

• Ethical Dilemmas allow students to wrestle with current workplace ethics issues.

• Experiential Exercises are designed to give students hands-on experience with each chapters’ subject in a group setting.

• You features are self-assessments that personalize students’ learning about important chapter concepts.

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• Updated scholarly research with a focus on quality and an interdisciplinary approach.

• Relies on the bias-free language standard of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition of the APA Publication Manual (2020).

• Key themes for this edition are diversity, equity and inclusion; new ways of working (remote and hybrid work); and wellness, with a focus on mental health in the workplace.

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• Because of its frequent publication schedule, ORGB includes the most current data, features and examples from the business world to attract and maintain student interest.

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