Handbook of principles of organizational behavior : indispensable knowledge for evidence-based management / edited by Edwin A. Locke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Locke, Edwin A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (683 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, [England] : Wiley, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is a strong movement today in management to encourage management practices based on research evidence. In the first volume of this handbook, I asked experts in 39 areas of management to identify a central principle that summarized and integrated the core findings from their specialty area and then to explain this principle and give real business examples of the principle in action. I asked them to write in non-technical terms, e.g., without a lot of statistics, and almost all did so. The previous handbook proved to be quite popular, so I was asked to edit a second edition. This new edi

Contents:

Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior; Contents; Contributors and Editor; Preface by Denise Rousseau; Editor's Introduction; PART I SELECTION; PART II TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; PART III TURNOVER AND SATISFACTION; PART IV MOTIVATION; PART V TEAM DYNAMICS; PART VI LEADERSHIP; PART VII ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES; PART VIII ENTREPRENEURSHIP; PART IX WORK, FAMILY, TECHNOLOGY, AND CULTURE; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 3, 2016).

ISBN:

9780470685334

0470685336

9781119206422

1119206421

9781283858717

1283858711

9781780341729

1780341725

9780470740941

0470740949

9780470748046

0470748044

OCLC:

680040834