Organizational Behavior

by Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge

With its conversational writing style, cutting-edge content, current examples, the three-level integrative model, dialogues, and technological learning tools, Organizational Behavior remains the global book, used by more readers interested in the topic than any other since 1979. The 12th edition retains all of the best features of the previous editions, yet adds much contemporary issues and research have been included into a seamless, whole, and comprehensive tome. Many topics are comprehensively covered, but on the whole, this book is written in a conversational, easy to read style. Topics management functions; the social sciences; helping employees balance work and other responsibilities; improving people skills; improving customer service; motivational concepts; communication; power and politics; conflict and negotiation; culture; and stress management. Globally accepted and written by one of the most foremost authors in the field, this is a necessary read for all managers, human resource workers, and anyone needing to understand and improve their people skills.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Management, Psychology, Leadership, School

759 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Alissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

read for a class.. very educational..

[Stephen]

it feels like you are reading an hr handbook. there's interesting research but you wonder whether they went for a desired conclusion and cherry picked research.

Weird stuff like men and women perform the same except women excel at this. Still has some interesting data points, never wanders out to anything profound or outside the cookie cutter mold. You might be better off skimming parts of lean in then reading this textbook.

[Alice Pasya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hmmm... mostly mengingatkan pada kenangan buruk bersama Pak Billy yang terhormat, yang dengan kemurahan hatinya berhasil tidak meluluskan lebih dari setengah kelas Perilaku Organisasi...

[joaquín · Rating 2 out of 5]

I freaking hate my professor for making us study this rose-tinted bs. I’ve Learnt more about business watching The Office and Succession than w this Lily!

[Matt McLain · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this management book as well, very similar to The Truth About Managing People. Big take aways are that strong organizations keep their employees engaged and stimulated with complex and appropriately challenging jobs. They give managers a wide span of control and empower employees below them to make decisions and problem solve. Strong organizations have clearly defined roles, shared meaning with a strong sense of purpose, and encourage creativity by rewarding failed attempts alongside successful attempts at innovation.

[Manoj Kakran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best book for beginners. Anyone can read to understand OB easily. It have case studies, role of motivation in organizations, different OB models and more.

[Natasya Wiah · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 star.
I read this book for my classes. Its a good book. It tell how to be a good leader and how to have a good organization management. It tell what employees motivation, communication, the conflict process, et cetere. Overall its good.

[Mahnoor Butt]

i want to read this book for my organizational project

[Anto Sugianto]

i want to read

[Onur · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recommend this academic book for the people who is interesting with social science.

[Collin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Headline: not reading

After reading the first few chapters of this book, I’ve just decided not to. I’m reading Plato, Augustine, Watson, Elliot, and many others who expand the mind, sharpen the aesthetic sense, and deepen the soul. I’m not reading this one. Imagine a book on Pre-Trump HR best practices written by a suburban white woman cat-mom. That’s this book. Not only is it entirely tasteless and boring, it does not interact with or participate in the great conversation or really anything outside of itself aside from a “social” study on why women don’t get as many C-suite jobs as men. There are a few things in this book that have helped me understand motivation theories better in relation to company relationships.

[Riley Rogers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Majority was common sense surrounding behavior in the workplace. I'm just glad I'm finished.

[Nour Hassaniya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Long chapters.. Huge book.. Too much.. But interesting.. Hardest unit for this semester.. But anyway am reviewing the book and it was great.. It helped me a lot with my studies and the way the words written on it was very easy for memorizing and for understanding the points nd to get it more clear the definitions and the important points where written on the right side of the book in a simple way for us to study also because of the examples after each paragraph and the way the writer typed all the information in this huge book everything is perfect nd i loved the unit.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay so I skimmed a lot of this, it was required reading for a class. It does contain very vital information on interactions in the workplace, and ways to be a better manager by understanding the behaviors of your workers.

[Dmitry · Rating 2 out of 5]

(The English review is placed beneath the Russian one)

Это одна из тех книг, которую стоит читать либо одной из первых по бизнесу, либо не читать её вовсе. Я решил эту книгу прочитать в тот момент, когда количество книг по бизнесу, что была прочитана мною, перешла границу в 200-300 книг. В такой ситуации я не рекомендую браться за эту книгу, ибо она будет интересна только новичкам.

Проблема здесь в том, что читатель может найти все те темы, что содержаться в этой книге, во множестве других книгах по бизнесу. Более того, некоторые книги могут дать более глубокий анализ вопроса. Так что да, книга определённо для студентов и студентов первого года обучения.

Не сказать, что авторы в чём-то неправы или что книга предлагает сухой и тяжело воспринимаемый текст. В принципе, если ничего до этого не читать, книга может даже понравится, она может стать хорошим фундаментом для дальнейшего изучения темы бизнеса в целом и организации – в частности. Но для меня, вторая половина книги, была невероятно скучной. Я зевал практически каждые 5 минут, пока читал последнюю часть книги. Я даже старался читать очень небольшими порциями, чтобы хоть как-то удерживать постоянно гаснущий интерес. Увы, но глава «Лидерство» была настолько скучной, что в итоге мне пришлось её просто пропустить. Так что, первая половина книги, в принципе, довольно неплохая и предлагает много полезной и важной информации, но вот дальше…всё зависит от багажа знаний конкретного читателя.

Если подводить итог всей книги, то она посылает явных сигнал, что руководство фирмы должно с уважением относиться к своим сотрудникам и стараться, по мере возможностей, помогать им, делать их рабочее место комфортным, и в целом, сделать так, чтобы работники положительно относились к работодателю. Т.е. если и не шли на работу как на праздник, то хотя бы, чтобы они не были озлоблены на своего работодателя, как это имело место в начале XX века на различных фабриках и заводах в Англии и США. Идея – правильная. И об этом пишут практически во всех книгах по менеджменту (именно поэтому я так сильно акцентирую внимание на том, что оценка этой книги зависит от общего количества прочитанных книг по данной теме).

Также книга уделяет много внимания вопросу «diversity», который стал в последнее время очень популярным в Европе и США, особенно после проведения политики мультикультурализма. Но если в политическом смысле возникают частые споры, то тут автор концентрирует внимание на проблеме столкновении разных культур, ибо с ускорением глобализации всё чаще коллектив компаний начинает состоять из носителей разных культур.

This is one of those books that should be read either as one of the first books on business or not read at all. I decided to read this book at a time when the number of books on business, which was read by me, crossed the line of 200-300 books. In such a situation I do not recommend reading this book because it will be interesting only for beginners.

The problem here is that the reader can find all the topics contained in this book in many other business books. Moreover, some books may provide a more in-depth analysis of the issue. So yes, the book is definitely for students and first-year students.

Not to say that the authors are wrong about something or that the book offers a dry and hard-to-understand text. In principle, if you have not read anything before, the book may even like you, it can be a good foundation for further study of the topic of business in general and the organization in particular. But for me, the second half of the book was incredibly boring. I yawned almost every 5 minutes while reading the last part of the book. I even tried to read in very small portions in order to keep my interest from fading. Alas, the chapter on "Leadership" was so boring that in the end I just had to skip it. So, the first half of the book, pretty good and offers a lot of useful and important information, but beyond that...it all depends on the knowledge base of the individual reader.

To summarize the entire book, it sends a clear message that firm management should treat their employees with respect and try, as much as possible, to help them, to make their workplace comfortable, and in general, to ensure that employees have a positive attitude toward their employer. That is, to create a work atmosphere in which workers would be comfortable working and that they would not be embittered at their employer, as was the case in the early twentieth century in various factories and plants in England and the United States. The idea is the right one. And this is written about in almost all books on management (this is why I emphasize so strongly that the evaluation of this book depends on the total number of books read on the subject).

The book also pays a lot of attention to the issue of "diversity," which has recently become very popular in Europe and the United States, especially after the implementation of multiculturalism policies. But if there are frequent disputes in the political sense, the author focuses on the problem of the clash of cultures, because as globalization accelerates, more and more companies' staffs begin to be formed by people from different cultures.

[Amy Ambarani · Rating 4 out of 5]

COMPLETE book of Organizational Behavior.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read it for a class. I learned alot but it's not a book that I would read for fun.

[Shahid Hasan]

i think this is very good book to increase my knowledge.

[Dannah Dailo]

to study

[Marilyn Maravilloso]

i want to read this book...

[Varuna · Rating 3 out of 5]

nice book

[Thushari Fernando]

It is considered as a reference book for us

[Wanda]

read for class

[Paige Lynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've never felt the need to rate and review a "textbook" for a class. However, other reviews of this book are suspiciously quiet. This books aims to remain neutral, but does a disservice to its more nuisanced subject matter as it inadvertently comes off as racist and sexist, and its using statistics to keep companies and future leaders in the stone age. And I question if written by different leaders if these same findings would be discussed in the same void of being dismissive of ethics.

That ultimately: Diversity is bad, homogenity good. Gender diversity, marginally better, but also terrible for companies.

The takeaway being: That to achieve prime productivity and cohesiveness among employees in a company, everybody has to be the same.

So hypothetically, if a company only wanted to hire white men, that's not discriminatory under the Civil Rights Act that's fostering prime productivity and group cohesiveness by statistical analysis. Educated racism and sexism is still racism and sexism.

There is just enough doublespeak to leave you wondering if that's what they implied or if you were just imagining it. So I bumped it up to two stars instead of one.

[Mireia · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the recommended lectures for the Organizational Behaviour class I am enrolled in this semester. Perhaps better suited as reference material instead of a classical end-to-end read as it is a traditional textbook. I believe it is a must-read not only for managers or people working in HR but for anyone. Understanding and improving one’s people skills and how to tackle the challenges organizations face is crucial for the prosperity of each company, and of society as a whole.

[Rebecca S · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a professional communicator, this book helped me undergo in-depth analyses of the psychology behind the workplace environment. Organizational Behavior is a textbook with extremely dense 30-page chapters. This is not a book for students to skim through, but one for high-level undergraduate and graduate students seeking management and leadership knowledge.
** I had the international version of this textbook.

[Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read about 5-15 textbooks over the past few years. This textbook on organizational behavior was the best. It was clear, it included plenty of citations to academic articles that I could look up, it provided definitions and similar contextual information. I think this might honestly be the best textbook I've ever read.

The visual design was pretty good as well, which is not something I thought I would be writing about a textbook.

[Sourabh Gharde · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good OB textbook with solid depth and lots of examples. Concepts are explained clearly and connected to real workplace situations instead of staying abstract. Works well if you want to understand people and teams better, not just for exams.

[Faizan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best book on this subject...
Colourful and all

[Jen Stirrup · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it alongside Eugene McKenna's book, which explained everything very well.

I read it for my MBA studies, and it was a good book that covered everything comprehensively.