Welcome to Organizational Behavior, 13th Edition

New Edition at a Glance

OB 13/e has a new author team.

We are pleased to feature in this edition the ideas, insights, and scholarly expertise of Mary Uhl-Bien. Mary brings extensive knowledge of leadership and relational processes in OB. She has received awards for her research, and is currently serving in the OB Division Chair track in the Academy of Management. She places deep value on rigor and relevance in OB, which she accomplishes by engaging in cutting edge research conducted through strong partnerships between scholars and practitioners. Along with Mary, John Schermerhorn continues to play a senior role in content, design, and pedagogy, while Dick Osborn focuses his attention on updating macro themes.

OB 13/e offers flexible, topic-specific presentation of OB topics.

Topics in the book are easily assigned in any order based on instructor preferences. There are many options available for courses of different types, lengths, and meeting schedules, including online and distance learning formats. It all depends on what fits best with your course design, learning approaches, and class session objectives. There is no complicated “model” that requires a structured content approach. Instructors can select core OB topics and themes while moving among chapters organized in four parts—Individual Behavior and Performance, Teams and Teamwork, Influence Processes and Leadership, and Organizational Context.

In this edition you will see timely updates to all chapters as well as extensive revisions to enhance the discussion of interpersonal and relational processes and streamline the macro treatment. Look for the following updates and special themes in Organizational Behavior, 13th edition.

• Context. We place context front and center as a key theme throughout the book. Students are continually reminded to think about organizational behavior as it occurs in a dynamic and ever changing world.
• Relationships. Positive relationships are essential building blocks for effective organizations, but this topic is often missed in OB texts. We draw from research to describe the importance of interpersonal relationships in OB, while giving special emphasis to relationship-building processes relative to communication, power, and leadership.
• Collaboration. Along with expanded focus on relationships, this edition pushes beyond the limits of hierarchical thinking and recognizes we live in an increasingly interconnected and collaborative world. The changing nature of organizational life requires everyone, not just managers, to embrace shared responsibility and collaborative thinking. Making sense of and building skills to succeed in this collaborative context are mainstream themes for the book.
• Communication. Organizations need effective communicators. The discussion of communication has been refreshed to incorporate research on voice, silence, feedback-giving and feedback-seeking. We also expand coverage of supportive communication principles and how to use communication to build and maintain effective relationships. A key goal is helping students understand how they can overcome problems of avoidance in communication.
• Leadership. Our approach to the leadership process material has been substantially updated to reflect emerging trends in leadership research in reaction to changing leadership environments. We recognize leadership as a process and not just a position or an individual behavior. We bring in the latest research on identity, followership, relational leadership, and collective leadership. And, the overview of trait, behavioral, and contingency approaches to leadership is extended to include a discussion of complexity leadership and ethics.
• Power and politics. Power and politics are essential in organizational functioning, and many employers indicate that new graduates are naïve when it comes to these issues. We provide a more balanced view of both positive and negative aspects of power and politics. New findings from network theory, research on perceptions of politics and political skills, and the nature of political climates provide students with a broad-based and practical understanding of how power and politics issues matter to them.

OB 13/e uses an integrated learning design.

Every chapter opens with a subtitle and photograph that help students identify with the content right from the beginning. This is followed by the Key Point conveyed in a short smart-phone sized message. Major chapter headings are listed in Chapter At a Glance. And, What's Inside directs student attention to major chapter features or learning accents—Bringing OB to Life, Worth Considering... Or Best Avoided? Checking Ethics in OB, Finding the Leader in You, OB in Popular Culture, and Research Insight.

Chapter content begins with each major heading linked with a Learning Roadmap which identifies major subheads for the section. The end-of-chapter Study Guide includes a summary of Key Questions and Answers, Terms to Know, a Chapter Self-Test, and suggested active learning activities found in the end-of-book OB Skills Workbook—a selection of Cases for Critical Thinking, Team and Experiential Exercises, and Self-Assessments.

OB 13/e makes “flipping” the classroom easy.

“Flipped” classrooms shift the focus from instructors lecturing and students listening, to instructors guiding and students engaging. The first step to making that possible is for students to read and study assigned materials outside of class. When they come to class prepared, the instructor has many more options for engagement. The organization and content of Organizational Behavior, 13th Edition, coupled with the power of the WileyPLUS online learning environment help greatly in this regard.

Success in flipping the classroom also requires a variety of discussion activities, projects, and quick-hitting experiences that turn class time into engaged learning time. You will find that this book is “packed” with such opportunities. The following chapter features are not only interesting to readers; they are also prompts and frames that can be used for flipped classroom activities and discussions, and for individual and team assignments.

OB 13/e is full of timely and engaging application and discussion features.

• Bringing OB to Life—Timely, even controversial issues from real life, are framed for student thought and discussion. Examples include “Building Skills to Succeed in a Collaboration Economy,” “Taking Steps to Curb Bias in Performance Assessment,” “Welcoming the Elephant to the Conference Room,” and “Paying or Not Paying for Kid's Grades.”
• Worth Considering... Or Best Avoided?—Briefly summarizes a recent trend or decision from practice with pro and con aspects that can be analyzed from an OB perspective, and asks students to take a position on its efficacy. Examples include “Want Vacation? No Problem, Take as Much as You Want,” “Not Enough Women on Board? Europe Considers Setting Quotas,” “Own a Yoga Mat? Meditation Can be Good for You and Your Job,” and “Software Makes Online Meetings Easy. Is It Time to Kill Face-to-Face Sit Downs?”
• Finding the Leader in You—Introduces a real person's leadership experience and asks students to use it to inquire into their personal leadership capacities. Examples include: Michelle Greenfield, sustainability entrepreneur, Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox and the first African American woman to head a Fortune 500 firm; Gary Hirshberg, social entrepreneur and co-founder of Stonyfield Farms; and, Sarah Blakely, founder of Spanx.
• Checking Ethics in OB—Poses a situation or dilemma and asks students to answer the ethics questions. Examples include: “Social Loafing May Be Closer than You Think,” “Privacy in an Age of Social Networking,” “Workers Share their Salary Secrets,” “Cheat Now . . . Cheat Later,” “Blogging Can be Fun, but Bloggers Beware,” and “Furlough or Fire? Weighing Alternative Interests.”
• OB in Popular Culture—A short vignette that links chapter topics with popular culture examples from movies and television. Examples include “Ambition and the Social Network,” “Self-Management and Slumdog Millionaire,” “Conflict and the Devil Wears Prada,” and “Critical Thinking and Tron Legacy.”
• Research Insight—Highlights an article from a respected journal such as the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Sample topics include-interactional justice, racial bias, social loafing, demographic faultlines, and workplace identities.

OB 13/e once again includes the popular all-in-one teaching resource—The OB Skills Workbook.

The end-of-text OB Skills Workbook has become a hallmark feature of the textbook, and it has been updated and expanded for the new edition. The four sections in the new updated workbook that offer many ways to extend the OB learning experience in creative and helpful ways. All items have chapter assignment recommendations.

• Cases for Critical Thinking—20 cases selected for topical content and matched with recommended chapters.
• Student Leadership Practices Inventory—The popular Kouzes/Posner instrument ready for class use.
• Team and Experiential Exercises—52 exercises useful for teamwork and in-class experiential activities.
• Self-Assessment Portfolio—22 self assessment instruments for students' personal reflection.

Student and Instructor Support

Organizational Behavior, 13th Edition, is supported by a comprehensive learning package that assists the instructor in creating a motivating and enthusiastic environment.

Companion Web Site The text's Web site at http://www.wiley.com/college/schermerhorn contains myriad tools and links to aid both teaching and learning, including nearly all of the student and instructor resources.

Instructor's Resource Guide The Instructor's Resource Guide offers helpful teaching ideas, advice on course development, sample assignments, and chapter-by-chapter text highlights, learning objectives, lecture outlines, class exercises, lecture notes, answers to end-of-chapter material, and tips on using cases.

Test Bank This comprehensive Test Bank is available on the instructor portion of the Web site and consists of over 200 questions per chapter. Each chapter has true/false, multiple choice, and short answer questions. The questions are designed to vary in degree of difficulty to challenge your OB students. The Computerized Test Bank contains content from the Test Bank provided within a test-generating program that allows instructors to customize their exams.

PowerPoint This robust set of lecture/interactive PowerPoints is provided for each chapter to enhance your students' overall experience in the OB classroom. The PowerPoint slides can be accessed on the instructor portion of the Web site and include lecture notes to accompany each slide. An Image Gallery, containing jpg files for all of the figures in the text, is also provided for instructor convenience.

Web Quizzes This set of online quizzes is written to match the Test Bank and varies in level of difficulty. It is designed to help your students evaluate their individual progress through a chapter. Web quizzes are available on the student portion of the Web site. Here students will have the ability to test themselves with 15–25 multiple choice and true-false questions per chapter.

Organizational Behavior Video Series and Teaching Guide Short news clips tied to the major topics in organizational behavior are available. These clips provide an excellent starting point for lectures or for general class discussion. Teaching notes for using the video clips are available on the instructor's portion of the Web site.

Darden Business Cases Through the Wiley Custom Select website, you can choose from thousands of cases from Darden Business Publishing to create a book with any combination of cases, Wiley textbook chapters and original material. Visit http://www.customselect.wiley.com/collection/dardencases for more information.

Organizational Behavior All Access Pack The All Access Pack is perfect for today's students who want all of their course materials to be accessible anytime, anywhere. The All Access Pack includes the WileyPLUS online learning environment, a Wiley E-Text, downloadable to any device, and the printed OB Skills Workbook, which contains Self-Assessments, Team and Experiential Exercises, and Cases for Critical Thinking.

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