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Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations 15th Edition By Ricky W. Griffin, Jean M. Phillips

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Pages: 578
File size: 9.31 MB
Format: Digital PDF
Course: Management
Category: eBook[PDF]

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The 15th Edition of Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations by Ricky W. Griffin and Jean M. Phillips covers core human behavior fundamentals, interpersonal dynamics, and systemic structural concepts. This latest edition integrates foundational theories with highly modern workplace shifts like Artificial Intelligence (AI), hybrid or remote work environments, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) complexities. [1, 2, 3]

The primary topics and thematic areas covered across the book's framework include:

Part I: Introduction to Organizational Behavior

An Overview of Organizational Behavior: Core concepts, historical progression, and contemporary managerial roles.
The Changing Environment: Structural market alterations, globalization, technology integrations, and business ethics.
Modern Macro Trends: Emerging organizational debates surrounding AI adoption, automated workflows, and corporate responsibility. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Part II: Individual Processes in Organizations

Foundations of Individual Behavior: Individual differences, personality characteristics, cognitive traits, and mapping behavioral profiles. [1, 2, 3]
Values, Perceptions, and Reactions: Attitude formation, emotional intelligence, cognitive bias, and employee responses to work environments. [1]
Motivation & Performance: Content and process-based motivation models designed to optimize worker commitment. [1, 2]
Work Design and Rewards: Job enrichment strategies, performance evaluation metrics, and strategic incentive frameworks. [1, 2, 3]
Stress and Well-Being: Root causes of occupational burnout, coping mechanisms, and balancing life-work parameters. [1, 2]

Part III: Interpersonal and Group Processes

Group and Team Dynamics: Distinctions between standard workgroups and collaborative teams, lifecycle development stages, and behavioral group norms.
Decision Making & Problem Solving: Rational, behavioral, and creative decision frameworks inside highly competitive networks.
Communication: Contemporary digital channels, systemic communication barriers, and managerial feedback structures.
Traditional & Contemporary Leadership: Classic behavioral or trait models alongside modern transformational, authentic, and situational leadership frameworks.
Power, Politics, and Justice: Power bases, operational corporate politics, allocation of resources, and corporate fairness.
Conflict Resolution & Negotiation: Strategies for functional conflict mitigation and cross-party bargaining dynamics. [1, 2, 3]

Part IV: Organizational Processes and Characteristics

Organization Structure & Design: Elements of structural layout, centralization versus decentralization, and modern operational matrix designs.
Organizational Culture: Developing, sustaining, and shifting cultural attributes inside distributed networks.
Change and Development: Overcoming worker friction or resistance to operational changes and managing institutional evolution.
Evolution of the Workspace: Navigating hybrid arrangements and remote work environments to keep teams connected. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]