Organizational Behavior: Developing Skills for Managers

Dynamic content designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn brings concepts to life

• Videos and interactives integrated directly into the author-created narrative keep students engaged as they read through each chapter. Thanks to this media-rich presentation of content, students are more likely to complete their assigned reading and retain what they’ve read.
• On Location: Managers in Their Own Words Videos, at the beginning of every chapter, show a diverse group of professionals in various occupations talking about how the chapter content is relevant to their work. These videos underscore the practical relevance of the topics to come while providing a real-world illustration of how very different people experience these issues at work.
• On Location: Video Exercises feature real people from diverse occupations describing their work and specific challenges with excerpts from the Managers in Their Own Words videos. Multiple-choice questions test students’ knowledge.
• On Location: Video Case Analyses, at the end of every chapter, present real-world problems and short-answer critical-thinking questions, so students can think through how they would respond using the concepts from the chapter.
• Embedded assessments such as quizzes and concept checks afford students opportunities to check their understanding at regular intervals before moving on. Assessments in Revel let instructors gauge student comprehension frequently, provide timely feedback, and address learning gaps along the way.
• Find Your Baseline Quiz presents four- or five- pre-quiz questions that fuel students’ desire to learn the chapter content, while foreshadowing key concepts and skills.
• Check Your Understanding practice questions with feedback keep students on track and actively engaged.
• Learning Check Quizzes help gauge students’ understanding of the material with 15 multiple-choice questions that feature a range of topics and difficulty levels. Most questions ask students to apply the material to a new situation rather than simply demonstrating their knowledge of the topics and frameworks covered. The quizzes are autograded and can be populated right into the instructors’ gradebooks.
• Personal Inventory Assessments have students apply chapter concepts to complete exercises that promote self-reflection. In the final step, students see — and are prompted to analyze — their results.
• Active Learning Exercises introduce concepts, provide experiential exercises, and encourage students to reflect on their own management values and the impact of different approaches.
• The Revel mobile app lets students read, practice, and study — anywhere, anytime, on any device. Content is available both online and offline, and the app syncs work across all registered devices automatically, giving students great flexibility to toggle between phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day. The app also lets students set assignment notifications to stay on top of all due dates.
• The writing functionality in Revel enables educators to integrate writing — among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking — into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden.
• Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading.
• Highlighting, note taking, and a glossary let students read and study however they like. Educators can add notes for students, too, including reminders or study tips.

Student-focused features facilitate learning

• Setting the Stage outlines key topics and connects them to broader themes in that section with a clear impact on students’ development as a manager.
• Cross-references to topics and key terms in other chapters constantly remind students about how the ideas presented are interconnected.
• Real-world examples involve a wide variety of industries, organizations, and geographies to speak to students’ experiences now in teams, as members of their universities, and at their next jobs, and then provide them with skills to shape and guide their future careers.
• The overall structure of the text reflects the four main categories of skills (self-awareness, self-management, other awareness, and managing others) that will prepare students to navigate ongoing organizational change. Additionally, each individual chapter is organized around a change management framework and focuses on the key skills students need to learn to be successful in today’s business world.

Coverage and features help students develop their employability skills

• End-of-chapter Key Skills Takeaways list 4 to 6 actionable skills students can develop to apply the learning objectives.
• End-of-chapter The Big Picture explains how that chapter’s content contributes toward understanding of change in organizations.
• Chapter 14: Developing Change Management Skills allows students to develop skills in managing themselves and others toward organizational change efforts.
• Chapter 6: Advancing in Your Job and Career is dedicated to career development, giving students frameworks and tools for achieving their objectives in their current jobs and careers over time.

Superior assignability and tracking tools help educators make sure students are completing their reading and understanding core concepts

• The assignment calendar allows educators to indicate precisely which readings must be completed on which dates. This clear, detailed schedule helps students stay on task by eliminating any ambiguity as to which material will be covered during each class. When they understand exactly what is expected of them, students are better motivated to keep up.
• The performance dashboard empowers educators to monitor class assignment completion as well as individual student achievement. Actionable information, such as points earned on quizzes and tests and time on task, helps educators intersect with their students in meaningful ways. For example, the trending column reveals whether students' grades are improving or declining, helping educators to identify students who might need help to stay on track.
• LMS integration provides institutions, instructors, and students easy access to their Revel courses via Blackboard Learn™, Canvas™, Brightspace by D2L™, and Moodle™. With single sign-on, students can be ready to access an interactive blend of authors' narrative, media, and assessment on their first day. Flexible, on-demand grade synchronization capabilities allow educators to control exactly which grades should be transferred to their LMS Gradebook.