Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Realities, and Challenges

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Summary: Organizational Behavior
Review: As a college student, I would recommend this textbook as a great guideline in regards to organizational behavior. The textbook, although a little lengthy, is easy to read and allows the reader to relate to the real life concepts. The book draws the reader in by providing self-surveys, graphs, and examples of successful popular companies.

The authors did a wonderful job of portraying the important points by highlighting key words and displaying bold definitions on the same page as the reading. I feel that the book could be improved by limiting the amount of reading, such as removing extra conversation and getting straight to the point rather than provide entertainment.

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Summary: Organizational Behavior
Review: As a student, I don't usually expect the textbooks for my classes to be very entertaining or even pleasurable to read. However, this textbook has come close.

All of the colorful graphics and simply the layout of the book contribute to it's overall appeal. The most useful feature for me has been the Thinking Ahead/Looking Back sections that take a glimpse at real-life organizations and apply the content of the chapter to their situations. Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Realities & Challenges is written in an understandable style and it organized by Parts and Chapters that help keep the information somewhat structured. All of the important words are typed in boldface and then defined off to the side in the margin. This helps for quick look-ups of key words.

Because of the type of topics being discussed throughout the textbook, there are many graphs, charts, and diagrams. Sometimes these can be a little too much as there seems to be one for every idea presented. Some of the added benefits are the Organizational Reality Sections and Scientific Foundation sections throughout each chapter. On top of these features, there are Web Sightings in the margins that briefly discuss a website that relates to the topic being explained.

Overall, this textbook is one I would recommend for a course such as Organizational Behavior.

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Summary: Organizational Behavior
Review: I feel that this a great book to have for people wanting to learn about organizational behavior. It covers every area and goes into very good detail. Unlike many textbooks that I have, this book is pretty interesting as far as the fact that it has a lot of pictures and a lot of color. This book is broken into several different categories that made it easier for me to understand. It did not jump around from part to part. I liked how the book had the definitions of the words that were in bold out to the side of the column. The book gave me a much better understanding of what it takes to be a successful manager. It tells you the right way and the wrong way to handle situations which is very helpful. I think that anyone who is wanting to learn about behaviors in an organization should use this book. It will teach them everything that they need to know. It is a great book to use when taking organizational behavior.

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Summary: A little too abstract
Review: I thought that this book had some very good characteristics about it. It spelled out things very clear. It used diagrams and models very well. It also was fairly easy to follow. However, I think that this book tried to define too many definitions and general things that are too hard to define. It spent a lot of space on definitions of vauge things and was a little wordy at time. While it was not the best book I have ever read, it was not that bad.

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Summary: A little too abstract
Review: I thought that this book had some very good characteristics about it. It spelled out things very clear. It used diagrams and models very well. It also was fairly easy to follow. However, I think that this book tried to define too many definitions and general things that are too hard to define. It spent a lot of space on definitions of vauge things and was a little wordy at time. While it was not the best book I have ever read, it was not that bad.

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Summary: Organizational Behavior (3rd Edition)
Review: Organizational Behavior, was up-to-date and contained a great deal of information about the general topic of business. Specifically it focused right on the subject at hand, organizations and their behaviors. I learned a lot from this book. The authors used real-life examples when applying what they taught throughout the reading. The book combined with lecture has taught me a lot about the subject!

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Summary: Org. Beh. review for Mgmt 377 at Harlaxton, ENGLAND
Review: The book Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Realities, and Challenges by Debra Nelson is a good book to start from when students want to learn more about the insides of an organization or business. The book involves everything from the general, basic concepts to the in depth details of the organization's structures and processes. Throughout each chapter (18) the author incorporates real businesses and real life examples that are beneficial for the reader to learn and understand. The author also includes numerous diagrams which help those who may be visual learners, such as myself. A chapter summary after each chapter clarifies important key concepts and terms before heading on to the new material. Unfortunately, the author's definitions could be stated in a simpler, easier to understand way, but the author fails to do so. On the otherhand, the various case studies throughout the book lets one critically analyze and discuss with other students the answers to the questions at the end of each case study. Overall, this book is a good source for teachers and professors to utilize in their classrooms and enhance in classroom discussions.

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Summary: Organizational Behavior
Review: This is a good text book for any organizational behavior class. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the various issues and problems that organizations deal with today. It is outlined well in that it first explains individual processes and behaviors, and then moves to interpersonal processes, and finally combines what you have read when it discusses organizational processes and structure. Throughout the text the Organizational Realities are helpful because they give personal accounts of the issues you have just read about. The six focus organizations discussed also bring a sense of reality to what you are learning. The reader is also provided with numerous tables and figures to help make what is written more clear. This was quite helpful most of the time, although I sometimes felt overwhelmed with all of the tables.

The challenges throughout the book give each reader the opportunity to learn more about himself/herself. I found this particularly helpful to understanding diffent things about myself, including what type of leader I am, and how I best deal with conflict, and what I am motivated by. I think it is important for a text book to not only teach about a particular subject, but also help the reader learn something about himself/herself. This book allowed me to do that. Because of this, I will be a more effective part of an organizational group or team when I am in the workforce someday.

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Summary: Organizational Behavior (3rd Edition)
Review: This is a great textbook for anyone wishing to learn more about how people interact with their organization. It would be especially helpful in a classroom environment with an accompanying lecture.

There are three main aspects that I particularly liked about this book. First, it was easy to read in that it was well organized. The author arranged the chapters with headings and subheadings in order to keep relevant information together. Second, the reader had a clear view of what was expected to be learned from each chapter. This is because the objectives were clearly and concisely stated at the beginning of each chapter and there was a summary included at the end as well. Third, the author used a great deal of figures and graphs to reiterate the concepts. This is especially helpful for visual learners, like myself. Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone wishing to learn more organizational behavior.

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Summary: Organizational Behavior (3rd Edition)
Review: This is a great textbook for anyone wishing to learn more about how people interact with their organization. It would be especially helpful in a classroom environment with an accompanying lecture.

There are three main aspects that I particularly liked about this book. First, it was easy to read in that it was well organized. The author arranged the chapters with headings and subheadings in order to keep relevant information together. Second, the reader had a clear view of what was expected to be learned from each chapter. This is because the objectives were clearly and concisely stated at the beginning of each chapter and there was a summary included at the end as well. Third, the author used a great deal of figures and graphs to reiterate the concepts. This is especially helpful for visual learners, like myself. Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone wishing to learn more organizational behavior.