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Published
June 2019
Page Count
422
ISBN (Digital)
978-1-4533-9678-0

Essentials of Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice

Version 3.0
By Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan

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Key Features

  • Provides the most critical, evidence-based organizational behavior (OB) topics in a compact form. The student text numbers 388 pages.
  • Organized around core values and beliefs about teaching and learning organizational behavior:
    • Understanding OB principles and how to apply them greatly impacts the effectiveness of an employee or leader.
    • Evidence-based research is the foundation of OB.
    • Different students learn in diverse ways.
    • There is no substitute for active, hands-on learning.
    • Flexible delivery enables student success.
  • Encourages learners to think about the interpersonal implications of their own and others' actions, understand how to pursue goals more effectively, and become better communicators.
  • Integrates ethical discussions and global contexts into every chapter.
  • Extensive update to Chapter 1, "Organizational Behavior at Work."
  • Coverage of perception moved to Chapter 11, "Perceptions, Decisions, and Creativity at Work."
  • Case studies with discussion questions to support each chapter are gathered into one, easy-to-find 16-page appendix that enables flexibility to cover or omit cases based on faculty preferences.
  • Rich and useful learning strategies embedded in the book include:
    • Chapter-ending "OB Toolbox" thought exercises provide specific suggestions about meeting challenges students may encounter today.
    • "What Do You Think?" features pose situations for student reflection and thought about reconciling their values with common business situations they may encounter in the future.
    • Individual and interactive group exercises bring the material to life.

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Essentials of Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice, Version 3.0 is suitable for undergraduate and MBA-level courses on organizational behavior taught in either two- or four-year colleges and universities.

Essentials is based on the same themes and approaches that make the longer Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice, Version 3.0, a market-leading textbook. This briefer book covers just the core topics in organizational behavior. It offers faculty who want to assign a more concise treatment of organizational behavior an effective way to bridge the gap between theory and practice of management with the distinct, experiential approach for which Bauer and Erdogan are known. Essentials provides the most timely and relevant vocabulary, framework, and critical thinking skills necessary to diagnose situations, ask tough questions, evaluate answers received, and act in an effective and ethical manner regardless of situational characteristics.

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Talya Bauer

Talya Bauer

Portland State University

Talya Bauer (Ph.D., Purdue University) is the Cameron Professor of Management and Affiliated Professor of Psychology at Portland State University. She is an award-winning teacher and researcher and recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Distinguished Teaching Award as well as the Academy of Management Human Resource division’s Innovations in Teaching Award. She conducts research about relationships at work throughout the employee lifecycle, including recruitment, applicant reactions to selection, onboarding, and leadership. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as the SHRM and SIOP foundations and has been published in research outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Personnel Psychology. She has worked with dozens of government, Fortune 1000, and start-up organizations and has been a Visiting Scholar in France, Singapore, Spain, the UK, and at Google Headquarters and she has delivered keynote addresses in Australia, Greece, Spain, the UK, and the United States. She has served in elected positions including the HRM Executive Committee of the Academy of Management and Member-at-Large for SIOP. In 2018-2019 she served SIOP as its president. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology (and the former editor of Journal of Management). Her work has been discussed in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She is a fellow of SIOP, the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and International Association of Applied Psychology.

Berrin Erdogan

Berrin Erdogan

Portland State University

Berrin Erdogan (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) is the Express Employment Professionals Professor of Management and Affiliated Professor of Psychology at Portland State University. Berrin’s research focuses on two themes. First, she examines how leaders lead through the relationships they build with their employees, and the implications of manager-employee relationships for employee effectiveness, retention, and well-being. Second, she is interested in understanding person-job fit and misfit, with a focus on why and how employees find themselves overqualified for their jobs and the consequences of being overqualified. She conducted studies and shared results with organizations in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, information technology, construction, and banking among others, in the USA, UK, China, Turkey, Vietnam, France, and India. To date, she has published over 60 journal articles and book chapters, co-authored the textbooks “Organizational Behavior” and “Principles of Management” published by FlatWorld, “Psychology and Work” published by Routledge, and co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Leader-Member Exchange, published by Oxford University Press. Her work has been discussed in media outlets including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, BBC Capital, and Wall Street Journal, among others. In 2013, she was elected a fellow of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for unique and unusual contributions to the field of Industrial Psychology. She served as an associate editor for European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and Personnel Psychology. Berrin is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and served as a visiting scholar and gave invited talks in Australia, Canada, Greece, Iceland, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, UK, and the USA.

Additions & Errata

  • Removed reference to Zimbardo in Chapter 13.1. July 15, 2019.