Research Details

Abstract

OB as the study of how people affect their organizations; understanding ourselves and others as the most important aspect of management, distinguishing leadership from management, ethical issues and challenges pervading every layer of the organization, examining power as a personal characteristic of people, the importance of relationships in organizations, decision making at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and organizational levels, conflict as a natural part of organizational life, four major types of teams, attitude and behavior change, and major branches of justice theory, diversity, the place-time model of social interaction, and the personal side of organizational behavior. Three core themes: Immediacy, Self-knowledge and self-development, Actionable Theory.

Type

Book

Author(s)

Leigh Thompson

Date Published

2009

Citations

Thompson, Leigh. 2009. Organizational Behavior Today (Taiwanese Edition).