Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Realities, and Challenges

by Debra L. Nelson and James Campbell Quick

Book Overview

This contemporary, skills-based bookt highlights the changing nature of managerial work and careers, and the demands placed on people to grow and adjust while maintaining health and well-being for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032431647x
• ISBN13: 9780324316476
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing
• Length: 636 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

need it for school

i need this book, because i am taking the class. i think this book is a little over price.

Good Stuff

I am using this textbook for an MBA course. I had already started the class when I ordered the book, but I received my book in enough time where I was not left behind. I appreciate the prompt service. Thanks:-)

Organizational Behavior

We used this book as our textbook for Organizational Behavior this semester, and I found it to be extremely helpful. The writing is clear and concise, and the chapters are divided into four parts that make the distinction between individual and group study clear. There are plenty of graphs, tables, and diagrams, which illustrate the theories and statistics clearly. Most helpful, however, were the vocabulary definitions and the chapter summaries, which alleviated some of the pre-test stress.

Org. Beh. review from Kate Sirko in Harlaxton, ENGLAND

The book, Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Realities, and Challenges by Debra Nelson and James Quick is a good source for anyone interested in learning about the behavior in organizations. It involves everything from the general concepts of organizational behavior to the detailed structure and processes within an organization. The graphs and charts help the visual learners, such as myself to better understand important concepts and theories. After each chapter, the authors displays summaries for the learner to review important key terms and concepts before reading on to the next chapter. Unfortunately, the defintions of the majority of the terms throughout the book can be described in a simple, easy to understand way, but the authors fail to do so. On the other hand, various case studies fill the book for students to get involved in class discussions and debates. Overall, this book is a good source for professors and teachers to utilize in their classrooms.

Organizational Behavior

I really enjoyed reading this book. There are not many textbooks that I would say this about. I think I enjoyed this book so much because of the way in which it was written. It is very easy to understand and is complemented with numerous figures and tables. Also, the Realities sections helped to relate what we were actually learning in class, to the real world. I think that the definitions along the side of the page were extremely helpful, as well as the page number listed beside the vocabulary word at the back of the chapters. Something else that I appreciated about this book was the Learning Objectives. At the beginning of the chapters, it lists the concepts you should know after reading the chapter. You can then try and answer them on your own, and check with the chapter summary in the back (which covers the same concepts) to measure your mastery of the skills. Overall, I think that this textbook is good, and is ideal in teaching an introduction course to Organizational Behavior.