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ISBN-0805843337

For many years, scholars aligned with mainstream research paradigms that make up organizational behavior (OB) have been leaning toward the more positive depiction of organizational reality.

To better understand people’s behavior in the workplace, they must also explore misbehavior. Organizational Misbehavior (OMB) is a term that was coined by Yaov Vardi about 10 years ago when he found out there were no models for how to predict “misconduct” at work.

Thus, the purpose of this book is to delineate a new agenda for organizational behavior theory and research.

Devoted to the study and management of misbehavior in work organizations, this volume is divided into three parts.

Part I discusses the prevalence of these phenomena. It searches for typologies and definitions for misbehavior in the management literature using a historical perspective and proposes a general framework of OMB.

Part II explores some important manifestations and antecedents of OMB at different levels of analysis–the person, the job, and the organization.

Finally, Part III presents practical and methodological implications for managers and researchers. The authors offer a comprehensive and systematically developed framework for the development and management of misbehavior in organizations.

The book is intended for students, scholars, and practitioners who manage OB.

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This Presentation sets organizational behavior within a framework of personal and organizational transformation, while retaining its solid base of theory and application.

Prepare yourself for the changing workplace.

This features the theme of organizational behavior in changing times, anchored by Chapter 2 that introduces you to current issues in organizational behavior.

This presentation further strengthens that tradition with new Research Insight boxes in each chapter that summarize relevant cutting-edge research reports.

Discusses the foundations of organizational behavior in a flexible, meaningful way.

It provides readers with increased awareness of the changing roles of employees through recent technological advances such as utilizing the Internet.

This presentation features increased emphasis on globalization and includes US, Canadian, and other international markets.