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The theme of this edition is The High Performance Organization. Ethics and social responsibility, workforce diversity, technology, entrepreneurship, and skill-building are some of the indispensable topics emphasized. Schermerhorn's new edition is intended for the Organizational Behavior course taught at most 2-year and 4-year colleges.

ReviewOB Workbook Supplement, Computerized Test Bank for IBM 3.5, Demonstration Video and Instructor's Resource Guide available. -- The publisher, John Wiley & Sons

From the PublisherDiscusses the foundations of organizational conduct in a flexible, significant way. It provides readers with increased consciousness of the altering roles of workers through recent technical advances such as utilizing the Internet. This edition features increased special importance and significance on globalization and includes US, Canadian, and other global case studies and experiential exercises to heighten sensitivity to global market concerns.

From the Back Cover"Racing is a team sport. Everyone who races beauteous much has the same car and the same equipment. What sets us apart is our people. ...We're more inviolable as a team than we are on our own." -Ray Evernham, pit crew chief for champion racecar driver Jeff Gordon Like automobile racing, today's fast-paced and high performance organizations run on talent and teamwork. The field of Organizational Behavior is leading academic curricula in accomplishments development and integrative thinking for 21st century career success. Organizational Behavior, 7th edition is designed to best meet this high performance standard. Fast OB! "Fast!" That's the word that describes most accurately the work surroundings of today's high performance organizations. Understanding this environs and it is significations is necessary for any person seeking career success in the 21st century! The Seventh Edition of Organizational Behavior reflects the realities of the new workplace to better prepare students for the fast-paced world of chance they will soon enter. Team up with Fast Company Magazine This text features a learning cooperative relationship with Fast Company magazine, one of the most talked when it comes to magazines in business! The text itself includes The Fast Company Collection, a series of full-text articles to heighten the already broad selection of application-oriented and skills-building resources. Available with the text is The New Fast Company Handbook of the Business Revolution. This arousing and attention holding supplement provides six perceptive articles reprised from past issues of the magazine when it comes to the altering landscape of leadership, work and careers. These thought-provoking articles are sure to challenge, stimulate, and inspire!

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
There are much better books out there
By A
· Very little focus on person conduct in organizations - I recognise this is not a psychology text, but, Jex (2002), or one of the other psych writers (Osland, 2000) could have applied for this course with much better coverage and not alter the course goals intended to be attained to a outstanding extent.
· For a 2003 edition of text, the citations were very much out of date. The chapter on leadership for example (Chapter 14, which had a total of 53 citations) had only seven references within the last five years; 1998 or greater.
· I am not of the opinion that this was a graduate text. The stories, pictures, essay and "effective manager" were not intellectual in their added information. In galore cases the added material didn't correspond to the text (see chart on page 48 and subsequent text explanation). Another example would be on page 157 they ask the reader to refer to Figure 8.2 and then explain the chart with text that isn't even related to the major segmentations of this chart.
o Not one of the Effective Manager boxes has references; where did all this good counsel come from?
· Typo's abounded in the text, they always do - but check out page 233 Chapter summary - it's not the right chapter; this appears agan with chapter 19. I actually had the sentiment that this was written by three people who did not do a line-by-line update of the 7th edition.
· Of very severe concern would be the author's inclusion of origins in their writing. This infuriated me to no end. Page 63 beneath Gender "However, women are reported to be more conforming and to have lower expected values of success than men do." That is a very severe statement and it holds no citation - what reports, who, where, when? Another example is on page 85 when discussion perceptual deviations in managers and workers - not citations given, even when stating that the deviations are significant.
o Just to show that I did not cull these examples only from the front of the book, Pg 274 "Recent work on the linkages amid corporate culture and financial performance reaffirms the importance of an special importance and significance on helping workers adjust to environment." What recent work, by who, saying what? This is just poor scholarship in my modest student estimation.

3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
a textbook worth buying
By Apple Juice
I have seen other people's review, and I must say that because people have dissimilar needs and expectations, so our ratings and views in regards to this book is different.

I employed this book one year ago for my class, and after the final, I sold the book, and now I am taking OB again in graduate school, and even altho I don't have this book anymore, I took elaborate notes while reading this book, and the theories and conceptions I wrote in my notes enabled me to aid my arguments in my analysis paper. When I was writing my paper, I was thinking that if I still had my textbook, it would be great. (I kind of regret now that I sold the book one year ago.) This book tells you all the rudimentary things you need to know with regards to OB, and it also has a great deal of self-assessment tests at the end of the textbook). The textbook I am using now for my current class is just a composition of a bunch of articles (kind of like a reader). I feel glad that I had read this textbook before and kept the elaborated notes on each chapter, because it helps me comprehend the basi principles requiring little effort than my classmates who have only read the reader.

5 of 6 humans found the following review helpful.
Adjunct Professor Uses For All His Classes
By John E. Anderson
This is an great book. It is very easy reading, coordinated and it communicates data to the student. It is loaded with easy following diagrams which reinforce the material, and it is loaded with real world Corporate America and Military Organizational Behavior examples to help the text work. It has an OUTSTANDING CASE Section which again reinforces the material and makes the student apply the conceptions learned in the chapters. Also, this text is finish with alot of Personal Assessment Exercises which make you think with regards to the type of person you are, how to improve yourself in working with others. I've applied in now for 3 dissimilar schools and the students take delight in it...Mainly for the Easy Reading and the way it introduces the concepts. Price is IRRELEVANT. You may go spend $40 on an Organizational Behavior text and you won't get anything out of it because it is poorly written, no cases and no assessments. Highly commend for any instructor who wants his students to learn. Great reference book also. Don't trade it!!!

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