Casebook of organizational behavior
Casebook of Organizational Behavior provides a panorama of absorbing, appropriately complex, modern cases from a diversity of work and organizations. The cases chosen are designed to illustrate a wide range of organizational behavior concepts and principles, those ordinarily described and discussed...
| Main Author: | DuBrin, Andrew J., |
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| Other Authors: | ScienceDirect (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pergamon Press,
[1977]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 326 pages). |
| Series: |
Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Casebook of Organizational Behavior; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. Guidelines for Case Analysis; SEVEN SALIENT OBJECTIVES; SUGGESTIONS FOR CASE ANALYSIS; FORMAT OF THE CASEBOOK; REFERENCES; PART II: INDIVIDUALS; Chapter 2. The Motivation to Work; Case 1. Bruce, the Behavior Mod Landlord; Case 2. The Elusive Quota ; Case 3. Why Do I Need a License to Get Ahead?; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Behavioral Aspects of Decision Making; Case 4. Can Backyard Gossip Condemn Me?
- Case 5. Creativity Requires the Right AtmosphereCase 6. Baton Rouge is a Long Way From Home; Case 7. Every Author Deserves a Publisher; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Stresses in Managerial and Professional Life; Case 8. The Price of Success; Case 9. Is There No Justicein the Retailing Business? ; Case 10. Making Eight is a Hassle; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Political Maneuvering in Organizations; Case 11. Give Me Equality, Not Favoritism; Case 12. The Maladroit Firing; Case 13. The Compulsive Career Planner; Case 14. You Need Connections to be Obnoxious; REFERENCES; PART III: SMALL GROUPS.
- Chapter 6. Small Group BehaviorCase 15. The Puzzle Block Work Teams; Case 16. The Group Decides in Brazil; Case 17. The Corporate Office; Case 18. The Petty Group; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Leadership Styles; Case 19. The Peripatetic C.E.O.; Case 20. A Different Style of Leadership; Case 21. A Fund Drive Needs the Right Leader; Case 22. Our Leader is too Charismatic; Case 23. The Disorganized Practitioner; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Improving Subordinate Performance; Case 24. Why Do I Need Objectives?; Case 25. The Age of Accountability; Case 26. The Full Court Press; REFERENCES.
- Chapter 9. Interpersonal CommunicationsCase 27. The Unisex Job Title; Case 28. The Corporate Waterfall; Case 29. Who Should Eat the Cost on this One?; Case 30. A Cybernetics System Feedback Blooper; REFERENCES; Chapter 10. Intergroup Conflict; Case 31. Last Hired, First Fired, No More; Case 32. The Unwanted Chairman; Case 33. Who Needs an Interlocutor?; Case 34. A School System in Conflict; Case 35. What Price Competition?; REFERENCES; PART IV: ORGANIZATIONS; Chapter 11. Organizational Climate; Case 36. The Isolation Blues (A Simple Case of Cabin Fever, Paranoia, and Sexual Frustration).
- Case 37. The Drab Decor at Steel City Nursing HomeCase 38. Biting Dogs Used to be our Worst Enemy; REFERENCES; Chapter 12. Management of Individual and Group Change; Case 39. The Dean Practices Participative Management; Case 40. The Decimation of Denver Printing; Case 41. What Should We Do With Harry?; REFERENCES; Chapter 13. Organizational Change; Case 42. The Superhonest Politician; Case 43. Centralization will Ruin Us; Case 44. The Disappointed OD Practitioner; REFERENCES; PART V: APPENDIX; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLES; BOOKS.