Organizational Behavior

by Fred Luthans

Organizational Behavior was the first mainstream organizational behavior text on the market and continues its tradition of being the most current and up to date researched text today. The author, Fred Luthans, is well known in this field, and is the 5th highest Publisher in the Academy of Management Journal. He continues to do research in the area of organizational behavior. This text is aimed at professors who take a research based and conceptual approach to their OB course.

Genres: Management, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Ash]

Done with another MBA class...Now back to what I WANT to read....

[Reader]

If you were looking forward to learning something - don’t. Overly wordy yet manages to come to zero definitive conclusions. 10+ years old and outdated. Any professor using this textbook is lazy and doesn’t care about teaching. Waste of time.

[Draper]

Poorly written. The authors seemed to intentionally choose the most obtuse why of expressing themselves. Here is an example: "Using positive psychology and POB in general, and the four criteria-meeting psychological resources of efficacy, optimism, hope, and resiliency, in particular, as the foundation and point of departure, as indicated in the introductory comments, Luthans and colleagues have theoretically and empirically demonstrated a higher-order core construct called psychological capital or PsyCap." The authors also seem to cite their own work on every other page. Reading this for class was an altogether terrible experience, and it is a topic I would normally have very much enjoyed.

[Shay P]

Pretty interesting for a textbook

[Rana]

Good textbook, a little dry at times but mostly interesting subject matter explained well. Topics include: diversity, motivation, money as a reward, negotiation, happiness and productivity, and people's needs, mostly in the context of the workplace.

[Mohmed Abokhalefa]

went to read

[Olivia]

Informative. Repetitive. Needed a better editor.

[Nahla Al Anqodi]

Great topics were covered with examples.. some parts I found it challenging to follow..

[Priscilla]

Interesting topics with relevant information, models and strategies. Repetitive and overly wordy.