Organizational behavior : managing people and organizations / Ricky W. Griffin, Jean M. Phillips, Stanley M. Gully. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction to organizational behavior -- Individual behaviors and processes in organizations -- Social and group processes in organizations -- Leadership and influence processes in organizations -- Organizational processes and characteristics.

"Prepare to think and act like a manager with the powerful insights, solid concepts, and reader-friendly approach in Organizational behavior: managing people and organizations, 12th Edition. This text equips you with the skills and practical understanding to meet modern management challenges. You will delve into the fundamentals of employee behavior in today's organizations as the book balances classic management ideas with thorough coverage of the most recent organizational behavior developments and contemporary trends. Memorable examples from organizations and managers you will instantly recognize are woven throughout the book and work with new cases and boxed features that focus on pressing issues and reinforce the book's practical perspective. You'll also learn more about your strengths and areas where you need development though an array of self-assessment activities"--Publisher website.

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Dr. Ricky W. Griffin serves as Distinguished Professor of Management and Blocker Chair in Business at Texas A&M. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Houston. He has worked as editor of the Journal of Management and as an officer in the Southwest Regional Division of the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association as well as in the Research Methods Division and the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Griffin spent three years on the faculty at the University of Missouri (Columbia) before moving to Texas A&M University in 1981. His research interests include workplace violence, employee health and well-being in the workplace and workplace culture. A well-respected author recognized for his organizational behavior and management research, Dr. Griffin has written many successful textbooks, including MANAGEMENT, HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, MANAGEMENT SKILLS, INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS and INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.

Dr. Jean Phillips is a professor of human resource management in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State University. Dr. Phillips earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Michigan State University. She was among the top five percent of published authors in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology during the 1990s, and she received the 2004 Cummings Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Phillips is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She has served on multiple editorial boards of top journals and has published more than 30 research articles. She has authored or co-authored nine books, including this text, STRATEGIC STAFFING, HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, MANAGING NOW and the five-book STAFFING STRATEGICALLY series for the Society for Human Resource Management. Dr. Phillips was also the founding co-editor of the Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management series for Business Expert Press. She has taught classroom and hybrid classroom/online courses in strategic human resource management, organizational behavior, staffing and teams and leadership in the United States, Iceland and Singapore. Her research interests focus on recruitment and staffing, leadership and team effectiveness and linking organizational survey results to business outcomes.

Dr. Stanley M. Gully was a professor of human resource management at Penn State University. Prior to joining the faculty in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State in 2014, Dr. Gully was a faculty member at Rutgers University (1998-2014) and George Mason University (1996-1998). He received his bachelor's degree from San Diego State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from Michigan State University. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 2014 and was ranked by the Academy of Management as one of the top 50 most influential scholars who received their degrees since 1991. Dr. Gully's research interests included work at the interface between training and individual differences. His publications include articles in journals such as Personnel Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He also co-authored textbooks on strategic staffing, organizational behavior and human resource management. In addition, he co-authored a series of staffing books for SHRM and co-edited the Business Expert Press series. His refereed articles and chapters have been cited more than 4,900 times.