Organizational Behavior (Stephen Robbins)

1 2 3 4 What is organizational behaviour? Isn’t organizational behaviour common sense? Or just like psychology? How does knowing ...

OB IS FOR EVERYONE Why do some people do well in organizational settings while others have difficulty? Do you know what a “typic ...

OB Is for Everyone It may seem natural to think that the study of OB is for lead- ers and managers of organizations. After all, ...

who sit on the board of their child’s daycare centre, or even the members of a lunchtime pickup basketball team. Throughout the ...

The Building Blocks of OB OB is an applied behavioural science that is built upon contributions from a number of behavioural dis ...

The Rigour of OB Whether you want to respond to the challenges of the Canadian workplace, which we discuss later in the chapter, ...

examples throughout the textbook, many individuals exhibit less than desirable behav- iour in the workplace. With a stronger gro ...

valid predictions. It does mean, however, that OB must consider behaviour within the context in which it occurs—known as a conti ...

10 Part 1 Understanding the Workplace While the KPMG/Ipsos Reid survey shows that managing well adds to the bottom line, the ROB ...

“What if I Am ‘Just’ a Student?” You may think that OB is only useful once you reach the workplace. However, many of the concept ...

Because many of its employees lack job experience, ICR needed to establish a culture that would motivate employees to show up fo ...

Individual Differences People enter groups and organizations with certain char- acteristics that influence their behaviour, the ...

popular business magazine nowadays, you will find that managers are referred to as “coaches,” “advisers,” “sponsors,” or “facili ...

The Enron scandal in the United States illustrated how casually some people treat the subject of ethics. Enron executives creati ...

skills. Management professor Jin Nam Choi of McGill University reports that research shows that 40 percent of managers either le ...

Workforce diversity has important implications for management practice. Managers need to shift their philosophy from treating ev ...

by increasing the number of staff-patient contacts per day—we say that the hospital has gained productive efficiency.Similarly, ...

Pfeffer explains that people will work harder when they feel they have “more control and say in their work.” They work smarter w ...

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS 1 What is organizational behaviour?Organizational behaviour (OB) is a field of study that investigates ...

OB AT WORK For Review 1. Define organizational behaviour. What is an organization? Is the family unit an organization? Explain. ...