Organizational Behavior
Textbooks
Organizational Behavior: Foundation, Theories, and Analyses
This textbook by John Miner is one of comprehensive and useful textbooks that tackle the issues regarding the different aspects of organizational behavior or OB. The book tackles the history of application of OB as well as different studies and principles that are related to the said subject such as philosophy and psychology. Furthermore, the book also focuses on the development of OB from the past studies up to the present. Above all, it focuses on the different theories that are related to the different aspects of OB such as motivation, leadership, systems concept of organization and bureaucracy-related concepts. All of the said concepts were tackled using the first and second-generation of OB.
Just like, the textbook of McShane & Travaglione, this book focuses on the different trends as well as current developments in terms of the application and aspects of OB like globalization as well as technology. On the other hand, this book can give additional information regarding the different theories from different generations regarding the studies of the OB. This can help those people who are working in Singapore to know more regarding the different aspects that are connected with the OB that will help them to understand their differences in terms of cultures and other needs. Furthermore, this text will give students of OB with depth information regarding the evolution and development of OB, as well as the different important theories that are connected with it.
Emotions in the Workplace: Understanding the Structure and Role of Emotions in Organizational Behavior
This textbook edited Kanfer focuses on emotion as the main aspects that can affect the issue of OB. It tackles the issues regarding the impact of emotions at work. Furthermore, it also tackles the basic of the different emotion models, together with the measures as well as the individual differences. Above all, it tackles the different issues regarding the impact of emotion in the different rules and regulations as well as policy making inside an organization. It also tackles the impact of emotions regarding the customer service as well as the relationship of the work-family interface.
The content of this textbook is related to the textbook of McShane & Travaglione, in a way that it focuses on the importance of emotions in the aspect of OB. Furthermore, it also focuses on the individualism and the aspect of team work. However, this textbook gives a depth presentation and explanation of the impact of emotion in the performance of each individual as well as the relationship of the individuals in a group. Furthermore, this book will give more theories and explanations regarding the different problems that are connected with the emotions and the different solutions that can be applied.
This book can help different organizations and individuals in Singapore, more particularly, those who are working with multi-cultural organization, to know more regarding the importance of emotions in workplace. Furthermore, this can help different management to consider emotions in their policy and decision-making process. On the other hand, this study will give the students knowledge regarding the impact of emotion in overall performance of an individual and how it can affect team work as well as customer relationship.
Managing Organizational Behavior
This book by Ronald Sims offers a wide range of topics regarding the different aspects about OB. It focuses on the impact of perception, attitudes as well as personality in the OB. Aside from that, the books also tackles the different issues and aspects about the OB with connection to each individual as well as groups. Furthermore, it also tackles the different problems the solutions that can be encountered by OB.
This book is connected with the textbook of McShane & Travaglione, in a sense that it gives importance on the connection of the OB with the customer relationship of different companies and organizations. Furthermore, just like all of the previous books that have been reviewed, this book also focuses on the different motivational factor that can affect the working performance of individual as well as group. On the other hand, unlike McShane & Travaglione, Sims gives focus on the different aspects of communications and how it can help to solve different problems that are associated with emotions, attitudes, personality and other aspects of OB.
Unlike, the first two books, this book focuses on the different problems that can be encountered as well as solutions that can be done in order to solve those problems in OB. This can help different businesses and organizations in Singapore in managing their OB, as well as helping to manage the human resource and relationship of different stakeholders. Furthermore, it can help the students with different ideas regarding the possible problems that they can encounter in the real world as well as the different solutions that can be applied and implemented in order to solve it.
Journals
Organizational Behavior in the New Organizational Era
This journal by Denise Rousseau focuses on the different changes in the organization that can impact the different aspects of OB. Furthermore, the study pointed out the new era in the organizational research due to the different aspects such as globalization and technology. In addition, the study focuses on the new employment relations and the different employment arrangements as well as other transitions. The study also tackles different aspects of motivation such as accessing rewards and its allocations, performance measurement and management, as well as the relationship of goal setting and self-management. The study also gives importance on the changing needs of organizations in terms of communication such as the organizational learning and the information processing.
Just like McShane & Travaglione, Rousseau, focuses on the different development and changes that affects the entire management of OB. It tackles the issues of technology as well as globalization or the existence of different culture. Furthermore, it also give emphasize on the different organizational change, together with the individual changes. On the other hand, this study will help to show the different aspects regarding the organizational learning as well as the aspect of self-management. This study will help those individual and groups in organizations and businesses in Singapore regarding the different aspects of self-management, in order to improve their individual performance. Furthermore, it will also give more information regarding the different aspects of motivation, particularly in financial rewards. This will support the different ideas from Sims, regarding the condition in the real world that can help those students of OB.
Organizational Behavior: Affect in the Workplace
This journal by Arthur Brief and Howard Weiss focuses on the study regarding on the impact of the organizational behavior in the working environment. Just like the textbook of McShane & Travaglione, the study also focuses on the history or the development of studies regarding on the impact of emotions and feeling of employees in the working environment. The study also focuses on the different aspects regarding the affective status of job satisfaction. Above all, the different factors regarding the production of different moods and emotions at workplace, different stressful events and conditions at work, leadership, work group characteristics, as well as the physical settings were all discussed.
This study can help different management of different organizations and businesses in Singapore in knowing the different aspects that can impact the job satisfactory, and eventually the overall performance of their employees. This study will give the students more ideas regarding on how the working environment can affect the employees’ thoughts, feelings as well as actions, and likewise. Furthermore, it will also give depth discussion of the different aspects of the working environment such as the physical, or the design, location and material aspects in the working station; and the emotional aspects such as the leadership, events and conditions, work group characteristics as well as the reward and punishment system.
Organizational Behavior
This journal byfocuses on the different review regarding the different studies and books about OB. And just like McShane & Travaglione, Wilpert, also focuses on the different theoretical development of OB as well as the different cultural factors that are associated with the OB. It also gives importance on the different organizational symbolism like myths and stories in the organization theory. Furthermore, it also gives emphasis on the different aspects of the organizational climate such as structural, perceptual, interactive as well as cultural. The study also focuses on motivation in the financial aspect in terms of performance feedback, social control potential as well as purchasing power. It also shows issues regarding leadership, control as well as power.
This study can help those organizations and businesses in Singapore because it tackles the different hazardous work systems that must be prevented in order to maintain good relationship with the employees and staffs. The said study is connected with the different aspects such as emotions, feelings and more importantly culture. Furthermore, this can help the students of OB regarding the different perspective of different authors regarding the impact of cultures and emotions in the management of OB. It will also give addition information to Rousseau about the organizational learning.
Internet Sources
Historical Background of Organizational Behavior
This online article prepared by Edward Wertheim focuses on the historical development of the different theories and studies regarding the OB. It contains four categories of OB theories development which is consists of: Taylorism and Scientific Management; the Human Relations Movement; Theory X and Theory Y; and the Schools of Thought regarding the Organizational Behavior. This article provide the basics and backgrounds information regarding the historical aspects of OB.
Just like McShane & Travaglione, Wertheim also focuses on the importance of motivation in the OB. On the other hand, Wertheim article give more emphasis on the different important motivational theories that are important in improving the performance of employees. This article will help different organizations and businesses in Singapore regarding the different aspects that must be considered in order to keep the enthusiasm of employees in working as well as to bring out the best of skills and abilities of each and every employee for the sake of improved overall performance. Furthermore, this article will give the students the idea regarding the important motivational theories that must be considered in managing OB.
Organizational Behavior
This online article by Don Clark focuses on the different basic information regarding the OB such as its definition and topics related to it like human behavior, change, leadership and teams. Furthermore, it also provides information regarding the different elements of organizational behavior and models of organizational behavior. It also gives emphasis on the social systems, culture as well as the individualization. Clark also offers a preview regarding the organization development that is associated with the quality of work life, action learning and change.
Unlike Wertheim, Clark focuses on the basic of OB, and other information that are related to it. Furthermore, like McShane & Travaglione, Clark also gives emphasis on the different changes that are associated with OB. This article will give more information regarding the different basic or raw information regarding the OB like its elements and models. The said information will be helpful for organizations and businesses in Singapore as well as students of OB regarding the different basic information regarding OB. Above all; it will serve as a helpful start for those who are not that familiar with OB.
Conclusion
Organizational Behavior or OB is one of the most talked-about issues in terms of management and human resource. There are many aspects and information that are related with it, and this varies from personality, emotion and feelings, group relationship, motivation, attitudes, and other psychological and management aspects. The textbook of McShane & Travaglione had been able to show the different application of OB by using different case studies. However, there are other important and depth information that are needed to be considered in order to fully understand the OB. Using all of the resources that have been mentioned in this paper, there are different and new information that had helped the author to understand more regarding OB. One of this is the historical development of OB as well as the different theories that are related to it, such as motivation. Furthermore, personality and other psychological aspect of an individual can greatly impact the physical and emotional working environment, and vice versa. Team work of group relationship is also an important aspect in OB. In addition, culture is considered as one of the most important aspects that must be considered in any working relationship in any organization and business. The said aspect is important due to the growing number of multinational companies and multi-cultural companies.
Communication plays an important role in managing the organizational behavior. This can be done by managing effective communication channel and medium that can help to lessen the different negative impact of cultural differences.
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