UDAI PAREEK'S UNDERSTANDING ORG.BEHV.3 E 3rd Edition by Udai Pareek, Sushama Khanna

The third edition of Understanding Organizational Behaviour is a comprehensive textbook specially designed to meet the needs of management students. The book has been extensively revised to include new topics, examples, and real-life illustrations.

The book explores the core concepts of organizational behaviour (OB) and explains them with the help of numerous examples and case studies. It provides in-depth coverage of the issues and challenges faced by Indian organizations in the areas of traditional culture and modern management. This edition continues the accepted process approach to understand OB. It emphasizes on the role of personality and leadership styles, emotional intelligence, and the roles and functions of the individual, the team, and the organization. Various essential concepts, such as societal culture and organizations, managing work motivation, preventing and managing conflicts in organizations, which form the core of interventions at organizational level, have been dealt with in detail. 

Besides students, practising managers will also find this book highly useful for its application of theoretical concepts explained through numerous examples and case studies.

Key Features

• New chapter on the foundations of individual behaviour
• Revised and updated content in most chapters
• New exhibits, illustrations, and examples
• Self-assessment tools to help students analyse various concepts and theories of OB
• Sidebars for recapitulation of key concepts

Table of Contents

• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• 1. Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
• 2. Changing Context
• 3. Positive Perspective
• 4. Foundations of Individual Behaviour
• 5. Personality and Personal Effectiveness
• 6. Learning Process
• 7. Motivational Process
• 8. Managing Work Motivation
• 9. Perceptual Process, Attitudes, and Values
• 10. Attributional Process Internality and Optimism
• 11. Roles and Role Effectiveness
• 12. Coping with Frustration, Stress, and Burnout
• 13. Decisional Process and Consensus Building
• 14. Transactional Analysis and Managerial Interpersonal Styles
• 15. Effective Groups and Teams
• 16. Conflict Management
• 17. Developing Collaboration
• 18. Leadership Theories and Styles
• 19. Developing Leadership for Tomorrow
• 20. Organizational Structure
• 21. Communication
• 22. Power and Politics
• 23. Organizational Culture and Climate
• 24. Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization
• 25. Organizational Change
• 26. Organization Development