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Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context

Albert J. Mills (Author), Jean C. Helms Mills (Author), Carolyn Forshaw (Author), John Bratton (Author)

9781551930572

Paperback / softback, published 1 September 2006

599 pages
22.9 x 17.8 x 3 cm, 1 kg

In today's world we rely on formal organizations for almost everything that we do. These organizations in turn shape our expectations of how people should behave. Whether our interaction with an organization is positive or negative will depend on the structure, character, and control of the organization.

The text introduces and explains the central theories, concepts, and models of the field of organizational behaviour; at the same time, it advances the key ideas of competing paradigms, integrating many of their main issues. In this way Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context offers a unique view into twenty-first century organizations.

Featured studies and cases of several major organizations including British Airways, Scandinavian Airlines System, Ontario Hospitals, Pfizer, the Catholic Church, Mountain Equipment Co-operative, Workbrain, Wal-Mart (and many others) allow the reader to understand the context in which to consider specific themes. These themes are also explored in separate chapters-including chapters on gender at work and race/ethnicity in the workplace. Finally, the authors use current research to examine aspects of organizational behaviour from a gender, class, or race/ethnicity approach.

An instructor's manual, available on CD-ROM, includes chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint presentations, a 500-question test bank, additional discussion questions, and previously unpublished case studies drawn from the Dark Side Competition (on Rwanda, Coca-Cola in India, Bhopal, and Nestle).

Acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1. Introducing Organizational Behaviour
Albert J. Mills

Chapter 2. Understanding Organizational Behaviour in Context
Albert J. Mills

Part II: Individual Behaviour and the Organizational Context

Chapter 3. Personality and Identity
Peggy Wallace  

Chapter 4. Perception, Stereotyping, and Attribution
Elisabeth Wilson and Chris Rees

Chapter 5. Values and Attitudes at Work
Peter Chiaramonte  

Chapter 6. Learning in Organizations
John Bratton and James D. Grant

Chapter 7. Motivation in Organizations
Scott MacMillan  

Chapter 8. Organizational Stress
Kelly Dye  

Part III: Interpersonal Processes in the Workplace

Chapter 9. Groups and Teams in Organizations
John Bratton and Peter Chiaramonte

Chapter 10. Race, Ethnicity, and Workplace Diversity
Natalie Vladi

Chapter 11. Sex at Work
Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills  

Chapter 12. Organizational Communication
Carolyn Forshaw and Amy Thurlow

Part IV: Organizational Structure and Change

Chapter 13. Power and Organizational Life
Gina Grandy

Chapter 14. Organizational Culture
Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills

Chapter 15. Organizational Structure and Design
John Bratton and Peter Chiaramonte

Chapter 16. Leadership in an Organizational Context
John Bratton and Peter Chiaramonte

Part V: Organizational Behaviour and the World Economy

Chapter 17. Globalization Antenarratives
David Boje

Glossary 

Contributors

Index

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