Motivation and Work Behavior
- ISBN-10
- 0071131027
- ISBN-13
- 9780071131025
- Series
- Motivation and Work Behavior
- Pages
- 635
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill/Irwin
- Authors
- Lyman W. Porter, Richard M. Steers, Gregory A. Bigley
Description
This scholarly text for upper-level and MBA organizational behaviour courses (offered either in management or psychology departments) combines the major contemporary theories, research and applications in the area of motivation and work behaviour. The approach of previous editions is maintained: introduce the core topic, review several of the prominent theories, discuss specific topics as they relate to the workplace, and end with an original summary that reviews what the students have learned as well as discussing managerial implications. - Outstanding coverage of motivation and leadership at work: reward systems, job attitudes, cross-cultural influences on motivation and leadership, social influences and power, high involvement management, and learning organizations. - Now published for the first time in a more affordable soft cover edition. 30 of the 42 articles are new. - New coverage of high-involvement management, including self-directed work teams. Expanded coverage of cross-cultural issues and diversity.
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