Organisational Behaviour, 10th edition

Published by Pearson (November 10, 2023) © 2024

  • Stephen P. Robbins San Diego State University
  • Timothy A. Judge
  • James Hunt
  • Nadine Campbell
  • Hamza Khan
  • Ying Xu

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Title overview

The world's most successful organisational behaviour text, enhanced with Australian perspectives.

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Long considered the standard for all organisational behaviour textbooks, Organisational Behaviour provides the research you want, in the language your students understand. This text continues its tradition of making current, relevant research come alive for readers.

The author team for this 10th Australian edition bring together vast experience in researching and teaching OB in Australian and global contexts, making the content highly relevant and practical for Australian students.

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Key features

Career-focused resources help students develop the skills today's employers are looking for.

  • An Employability Skills Matrix in every chapter shows the professional relevance of specific pieces of chapter content and text features.
  • A Career Objectives feature in every chapter provides advice in a question-and-answer format to help students think through issues they may face in the workforce.
  • An Application and Employability section at the end of every chapter summarises the chapter's relevance for students' employability and the skills learnt.

Current, real-world examples help readers understand how to apply OB concepts.

  • The Opening Vignette in each chapter brings current business trends and events to the forefront.
  • Profiles of real company leaders throughout the text illustrate how course concepts have helped their success.
  • End-of-chapter Case Studies illustrate the relevance and importance of an aspect of the chapter's content to the real world of work.

A variety of features and activities encourage students to think critically and reflect on the material covered.

  • The Point/Counterpoint feature presents opposing positions on hot topics.
  • The Ethical Choice features are based on real business scenarios and situations that have posed an ethical dilemma.
  • The Myth or Science? feature presents a commonly accepted 'fact' about human behaviour, followed by confirming or disproving research evidence.
  • Experiential Exercises at the end of each chapter provide an opportunity to actively engage in a group or individually.

New to this edition

This edition is one of the most extensive revisions of Organisational Behaviour undertaken. Content has been added/updated in each chapter to reflect the most recent research within the field as well as showcase the major practical issues facing employees and managers in our rapidly changing organisational world.

  • Opening vignettes at the beginning of each chapter have been updated to bring current business trends and events to the forefront.
  • The new edition features over 800 new examples and references that emphasise diversity, equity, and inclusion; COVID-19 and crisis management; remote work and telecommuting; and much more.
  • Content has been reviewed and streamlined, providing readers with a more focused learning experience, and supporting information comprehension and retention.

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Table of contents

  • PART 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1. What is organisational behaviour?
  • PART 2 THE INDIVIDUAL
  • 2. Diversity in organisations
  • 3. Attitudes and job satisfaction
  • 4. Personality and values
  • 5. Emotions and moods
  • 6. Perception and individual decision making
  • 7. Motivation: from concept to application
  • PART 3 THE GROUP
  • 8. Foundations of group behaviour
  • 9. Understanding work teams
  • 10. Communication
  • 11. Leadership
  • 12. Power and politics
  • 13. Conflict and negotiation
  • PART 4 THE ORGANISATION SYSTEM
  • 14. Foundations of organisational structure
  • 15. Organisational culture
  • 16. Organisational change and stress management

Author bios

Stephen P. Robbins is Professor Emeritus of Management at San Diego State University and the world's best-selling textbook author in the areas of both management and organisational behaviour. His books are used at more than a thousand US colleges and universities; have been translated into 19 languages; and have adapted editions for Canada, Australia, South Africa, India and the Middle East. Dr Robbins is also the author of the best-selling books The Truth about Managing People (4th edn, Pearson, 2014) and Decide & Conquer (2nd edn, Pearson, 2015).

Timothy A. Judge is currently the Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness at the Department of Management and Human Resources, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. Dr Judge's primary research interests are in (1) personality, moods and emotions; (2) job attitudes; (3) leadership and influence behaviours; and (4) careers (person-organisation fit, career success). Timothy has published more than 154 articles on these and other major topics in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Timothy is a co-author of Essentials of Organizational Behavior (14th edn) and Staffing Organizations (8th edn).

James Hunt is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He served as Director of the MBA Program between 2011 and 2019, and as Assistant Director of Postgraduate Programs from 2012 to 2013. James has regularly designed and delivered courses on leadership, organisational behaviour and organisational change over his 32-year university career. James's primary area of research is the personality determinants of leadership style. He is the author of more than 60 published journal articles, book chapters and books, and is the recipient of nine awards for excellence in teaching at the University of Newcastle.

Dr Nadine Campbell is the Academic Program Advisor at Western Sydney University in the School of Business. Nadine takes a very international focus on education, having lived in four countries - Jamaica, Canada, the United States and Australia. Her passion for organisational behaviour began over 35 years ago while doing her undergraduate degree at the University of California Berkeley. Since then, Nadine has taught in the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and throughout Europe. She has authored over 100 publications, including journal articles, books, book chapters, and opinion pieces on managerialism. She remains an active researcher in the areas of organisational performance and culture.

Hamza Khan is a top-ranked instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University, a visiting scholar at Trent University, and played a vital role in developing Canada's first social media graduate certificate program at Seneca College. He is the best-selling author of The Burnout Gamble and Leadership, Reinvented, an award-winning entrepreneur, and a world-renowned keynote speaker whose TEDx talk 'Stop Managing, Start Leading' has been viewed over two million times. He challenges audiences and organisations to rehumanise their workplaces to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth.

Cathy Ying Xu is a Lecturer in Management at the Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia, where she teaches MBA courses on organisational behaviour, leadership, and human resource management. Dr Xu's current research interests include employee voice and participation, strategic and sustainable human resource management, and the social, career and economic impacts of chronic illness on workers. Cathy's research has been published by top-tier book publishers and in journals such as Work, Employment and Society, the International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Journal of Industrial Relations.

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