Understanding Organizational Behaviour Book

This comprehensive textbook is tailored to meet the long-felt need of MBA students for a book written primarily from an Indian perspective. It explores core concepts and theories of organizational behaviour through managerial applications. The book contains well-illustrated chapters on globalization and the changing profile of employees and customers, culture and the organization, the process of decision making and consensus building, and developing attitudes and values. It provides in-depth coverage of issues and challenges faced by Indian organizations in the areas of traditional culture and modern management, emotional intelligence, the process approach to organizational behaviour, the role of personality and leadership styles, and the roles and functions of the individual, the team, and the organization. Also discussed are key concepts, such as societal culture and organizations, managing work motivation, and preventing and managing conflicts in organizations. Users will fin d this book highly useful for its applications of theoretical concepts thorugh discussions of individual and team behaviour from actual workplace siutations, caselets, and illustrations. Highlights BL contains classroom-tested cases in the Indian organizational context BL includes examples and caselets in the key areas of organizational behaviour BL provides chapter-end exercises with concept-review and critical-thinking questions BL suggests interesting classroom and field projects, such as group discussion and analytical reportingRead More