For upper-level undergraduate/graduate courses in International Management, Organizational Behavior, Principles of Management, and Diversity in the Workplace. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to international OB and management. Presented from a global, rather than a North American or Western European perspective, it offers students a unique cultural perspective on the roots of organizational behavior around the world. Finally, the book acts as a guide to the changes that are not only reshaping organizations, but the ways we understand them as well. - Cross-cultural research on culture and organizations - e.g., the University of Michigan World Values Survey; Donald Browns human universals; and findings from project GLOBE - the largest comparative study of leadership ever conducted. - Presents students with important theoretical frameworks, and a list of human behaviors found in most known societies - challenging the ideas that culture is the primary explanation of human behavior. - Chapter-end World Wide Web references. - Encourages students to use the Internet and links provided to explore key topics in more depth. - Added case studies and skill exercises. - Supplies students with a more comprehensive set of learning material. - Added and updated examples throughout. - Familiarizes students with current real-world scenarios of behavior in organizations from a wide variety of cultures. - Unique content and format. - Gives students the only International OB text with readings, cases, and exercises that compliment topics covered throughout the text. - Chapter-opening "Culture at Work" illustrations and learning objectives. - Introduces key concepts and alerts students to the major issues covered in that chapter. - Emphasis on emerging trends affecting organizational behavior around the world - Creating either different or similar behaviors. - Underscores what students need to know to understand and manage the differences of other cultures, and poses the questions they will have to consider in the future when starting their careers. - Chapters devoted to Ethics and Human Resource Management - In addition to traditional OB topics. - Discusses the important issues in international and global organizational behavior.
