Organizational Behavior: [essentials] 2nd edition applies four fundamental principles that have made our comprehensive edition one of the best-selling OB books around the world: linking theory with reality, organizational behavior for everyone, contemporary theory foundation, and active learning support.

• Linking theory with reality. OB: [essentials] 2nd edition has a strong practical orientation, and this is most evident in the examples that link concepts to real-life incidents in the workplace. For example, you will read about the OB practices that have helped make Pixar Animation Studios a success in the competitive animation feature film business; how an executive at ThedaCare in Wisconsin applied a conflict resolution style that solved an ongoing dispute between nurses and pharmacists; how Whole Foods Markets spreads its successful organizational culture to new stores; and how Johnson & Johnson in India, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere has become one of most admired companies by paying attention to each employee’s self-concept and personal values.

• Organizational behavior for everyone. OB: [essentials] 2nd edition is written for everyone in organizations. This book is widely adopted in courses for managers, but it also suits students in engineering, pharmacy, accounting, and every other occupation. Simply put, we believe that everyone who works in and around organizations needs to understand and make use of organizational behavior knowledge.

• Contemporary theory foundation. Scan through the references and you will see that OB: [essentials] 2nd edition is as contemporary conceptually as it is practically. We take contemporary research findings and translate them into understandable ideas with clear connections to workplace events. This contemporary approach includes leading edge knowledge, such as employee self-concept, Schwartz’s values model , appreciative inquiry, problems with charismatic leadership, the automaticity and emotionality of perceptions, and emerging views about types of workplace conflict.

• Active learning support. Accreditation associations are encouraging business schools to include more active learning, critical thinking, and outcomes-based teaching. OB: [essentials] 2nd edition supports this trend by offering an assortment of cases, exercises, self-assessments, and video cases to aid the learning process. While some books find it easier to cut corners (and pages) by removing these features, we consider them essential to the learning process.