New Features :

• Strong and early coverage of employee communication.
• A comprehensive chapter on motivational theories and another on their application to reward systems in organizations.
• A distinctive in-chapter exercise, called “Causal Connection,” that encourages students to identify the likely positive and negative effects of a variety of behavioral concepts.
• Updated examples of real organizational situations that show how actual organizations operate and how people act in specific situations.
• Special emphasis on practicality, as evidenced by the inclusion of “Advice to Future Managers” to guide managers toward improved practice of organizational behavior.

Retained Features:

• Chapter-opening illustrations precede each chapter to engage the reader in a real-life issue.
• Organizational Behavior, 13e has a streamlined 16-chapter structure that accents the issues of greatest importance in organizations today—motivation, leadership, conflict and power, groups and teams, and the nature of change and its effects.
• Substantial coverage of teams, their organizational context, factors that make them successful, and team- building processes that help members work together more effectively.
• This text offers careful blending of theory/research with practice: basic theories come to life via hundreds of examples of real organizational situations.
• Each chapter includes numerous discussion questions, many which require thought, encourage insight, or invite readers to analyze their own experiences in terms of the ideas in the chapter.