Part 1: Introduction
1. Introduction to the Field of Organisational Behaviour
Part 2: Individual behaviour and processes
2. Individual Behaviour, Personality and Values
3. Perceiving Ourselves and Others in Organisations
4. Workplace Emotions, Attitudes and Stress
5. Foundations of Employee Motivation
6. Applied Performance Practices
7. Decision Making and Creativity
Part 3: Team processes
8. Team Dynamics
9. Communicating in Teams and Organisations
10. Power and Influence in the Workplace
11. Conflict and Negotiation in the Workplace
12. Leadership in Organisational Settings
Part 4: Organisational processes
13. Organisational Structure
14. Organisational Culture
15. Organisational Change
Holistic Case Studies
Steven L. McShane is Conjoint Professor at Newcastle Business
School, University of Newcastle (Australia). He previously
held the positions of Adjunct Professor at Gustavson School of
Business, University of Victoria (Canada), Professor at Simon
Fraser University’s Faculty of Business Administration (Canada),
and Winthrop Professor of Management at the University of Western
Australia Graduate School of Management and Business School. He
currently teaches organizational behavior in the IMBA program at
the Antai College of Economics and Management at
Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. Steve has
received awards for his teaching quality and innovation, and
receives high ratings from students in Perth, Shanghai, Singapore,
Manila, and other cities where he has taught. He is also
a popular visiting speaker, having given dozens of invited talks
and seminars to faculty and students in the United States, China,
Canada, Malaysia, India, and other countries.
Steve earned his PhD from Michigan State University, where he
specialized in organizational behavior and labor relations. He also
holds a Master’s of Industrial Relations from the University of
Toronto and an undergraduate degree from Queen’s University in
Canada. Steve is a past president of the Administrative Sciences
Association of Canada (the Canadian equivalent of the Academy of
Management) and served as Director of Graduate Programs in Simon
Fraser University’s business faculty. He has conducted executive
programs with Nokia, TÜV-SÜD, Wesfarmers Group, Main Roads WA,
McGraw-Hill, ALCOA World Alumina Australia, and many other
organizations.
Along with coauthoring Organizational Behavior, Ninth Edition,
Steve is lead coauthor of Canadian Organizational Behaviour, Tenth
Edition (2018), Organisational Behaviour: Asia Pacific, Sixth
Edition (2019), and M: Organizational Behavior, Fourth Edition
(2019). He is also coauthor of editions or translations of his
organizational behavior books in other countries. Steve has
published several dozen articles and conference papers on workplace
values, training transfer, organizational learning,
exit–voice–loyalty, employee socialization, wrongful dismissal,
media bias
in business magazines, and other diverse topics. Steve enjoys
spending his leisure time hiking, swimming, body board surfing,
canoeing, skiing, and traveling with his wife and two
daughters.
Mara Olekalns
Mara Olekalns is an expert in the fields of negotiation and
conflict resolution.
Her research focuses on communication processes in negotiation. She
is interested in how the timing and sequencing of negotiation
strategies affects negotiators’ outcomes, particularly their
ability to create value in the negotiation; and als in identifying
the contextual, cognitive and dispositional factors that shape
strategy choice and sequencing. More recently, she investigated the
impact of first impressions and turning points on trust in
negotiation.
In addition to her role at MBS, Mara has been a Visiting Research
Scholar at Kellogg Graduate School of Management’s Dispute
Resolution Research Centre. She has held lecturing positions at the
University of Melbourne and University of Otago, as well as a range
of management positions in the Australian Public Service. She also
has considerable experience as a presenter on executive development
programs.
Mara has published in leading international management, psychology
and communication journals, and has presented her work extensively
at international conferences. She was a board member of the
International Association of Conflict Management and is on the
Editorial Board of the International Journal of Conflict
Management.
Tony Travaglione
Tony Travaglione currently heads the School of Management at the
Curtin Business School. He previously held the position of
Professor of Management in the Asia Pacific Graduate School of
Management at Charles Sturt University. He obtained his Doctor of
Philosophy degree in Organisational Behaviour from the University
of Western Australia.
During his career Tony has held a number of senior leadership roles
including Professor and Dean at the University of Adelaide and
Professor and Head of the Newcastle Graduate School of Business.
Additionally Tony holds the position of Visiting Professor at
Stanford University where he teaches MBA students at the Stanford
Graduate School of Business. In addition to teaching MBA students
in Australia and the USA he has also taught programs in Singapore;
Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Tony has published in numerous international journals including
Personnel Review, Journal of Individual Employment Rights;
International Journal of Human Resource Management; Journal of
Managerial Psychology; and the International Journal of
Organisational Analysis.
Tony has consulted to a wide range of organisations including BHP;
QANTAS; Swan Brewery; Health Department of Western Australia;
Hunter Area Health; Main Roads Western Australia; Westrail; Rail
Services Australia and Centrelink.
Tony enjoys his spare time by the beach and bushwalking. Having
spent time in Western Australia, the Hunter region of New South
Wales, and Adelaide, Tony has developed an appreciation for a fine
red.
Ask a Question About this Product More... |