eBook EPUB PDF Organizational Behavior Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace 8th Edition By Jason Colquitt, Jeffery LePine, Michael Wesson
• ISBN-13: 978-1264124350
• ISBN-10: 1264124354
• ISBN-13: 97
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eBook EPUB PDF Organizational Behavior Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace 8th Edition By Jason Colquitt, Jeffery LePine, Michael Wesson
• ISBN-13: 978-1264124350
• ISBN-10: 1264124354
• ISBN-13: 978-1265049409
• ISBN-13 : 978-1265368586
This textbook frames the study of corporate culture, management, and psychology around an explicit Integrative Model of Organizational Behavior. Rather than treating organizational behavior (OB) as a collection of detached concepts, the authors use this overarching roadmap to visually anchor how individual mechanisms, group mechanisms, and organizational dynamics directly impact two primary workplace outcomes: Job Performance and Organizational Commitment.
Written in an accessible, student-friendly, and highly conversational style, the book pairs peer-reviewed research with common cultural landmarks. Recurring pedagogical features include "OB on Screen" (analyzing concepts through popular films and television), "OB at the Bookstore", and empirical self-assessment modules to help readers apply theories to their own career tracks.
🗂️ Structural Contents & Core Topics
The curriculum maps 16 targeted chapters across five core architectural blocks:
• Introduction to OB: Defining organizational behavior, task performance vs. citizenship behaviors, and types of workplace commitment (affective, continuance, and normative).
• Individual Mechanisms: Job satisfaction, stress modeling, motivation, trust, justice, ethics, and cognitive learning/decision-making.
• Individual Characteristics: Personality frameworks (The Big Five), cultural values, and cognitive/emotional abilities.
• Group Mechanisms: Team characteristics, team diversity, communication loops, power, influence, politics, and leadership styles/behaviors.
• Organizational Mechanisms: Corporate structure types and the development, socialization, and maintenance of organizational culture.
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