ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR CONCEPTS CONTROVERSIES APPLICATIONS Seventh Edition Stephen P. Robbins 1996 Contents Part One • Introduction Chapter 1 What Is Organizational Behavior? 2 Chapter 2 Responding to Global and Cultural Diversity 42 Part Two • The Individual Chapter 3 Foundations of Individual Behavior 80 Chapter 4 Perception and Individual Decision Making 130 Chapter 5 Values, Attitudes, and Job Satisfaction 172 Chapter 6 Basic Motivation Concepts 210 Chapter 7 Motivation: From Concepts
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Academy of Management Journal 2006, Vol. 49, No. 5, 894–917. WHEN DOES TRUST MATTER TO ALLIANCE PERFORMANCE? REKHA KRISHNAN Simon Fraser University XAVIER MARTIN NIELS G. NOORDERHAVEN Tilburg University We examine how uncertainty moderates the trust-performance relationship in alliances, building on the distinction between behavioral uncertainty, which relates to anticipating and understanding partners’ actions, and externally caused environmental uncertainty. We argue that trust matters more
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FOREWORD At no time during the last three or four decades have the communication skills of individuals in the business world come under closer scrutiny than today. And never before have those who work in the business world needed better, more effective communication skills. The emerging technology appears to be increasing, rather than decreasing, the need for effective communication skills. As more individuals have ready access to desk-top equipment to process written communication, fewer
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen 6336 Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford
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Journal of hMarketing Education ttp://jmd.sagepub.com/ A Multicultural Service Sensitivity Exercise for Marketing Students Mark S. Rosenbaum, Ioana Moraru and Lauren I. Labrecque Journal of Marketing Education published online 4 October 2012 DOI: 10.1177/0273475312461257 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jmd.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/10/03/0273475312461257 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Journal of
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DIAGNOSES presents analyses of the management case by academicians and practitioners Infosys Technologies Ltd.: Growing Share of a Customer’s Business James A Narus and D V R Seshadri Case Analysis I Janaki Anant Principal Solution Architect i-flex solutions Ltd e-mail: janaki.anant@iflexsolutions.com his case has multiple dimensions of analysis to it. While there is certainly an immediate short-term issue of winning the Ariba® e-procurement project of the existing client, Prairie Four Square
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Global and Transnational Business: Strategy and Management Second Edition Global and Transnational Business: Strategy and Management Second Edition George Stonehouse Northumbria University David Campbell University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Jim Hamill University of Strathclyde Tony Purdie Northumbria University Copyright # 2004 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England Telephone (þ44) 1243 779777 Email (for orders and customer service
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Executive Summery Most of the South Asian economies (e.g. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) have made significant economic progress in the last two decades and are well on track to becoming major regional or even world economic powerhouses. In the recent years, many MNCs are increasingly putting more attention to the emerging. Asian countries for competitive advantage. One classic example is China. With a population of more than 1.3 billion China is predicted to be the largest economy in the
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Management Summary Samsung wants to introduce a new line of mp4 players. This plan is a detailed analysis on how Samsung can best introduce this product in The Netherlands as well as in Germany. First there is internal analysis of Samsung than external analysis will follow, which will focus on the Netherlands and Germany. Samsung wants to introduce this product in an already very competitive market, the MID market (Mobile internet device). One of the main competitors of Samsung, Apple, is already
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| 2011 | | H.J Hichel Ltd Prepared By, Sumudu Kodagoda | DEVELOPING STARTEGIC MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS | | Table of contents Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3 Task 2.............................................................................................................................................14 Task 3.........................................
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