Organizational Behavior Reader, The
(8th Edition) by Irwin M Rubin
Organizational Behavior Reader, 8Th Ed.
For courses in Organizational Behavior, Individual Behavior in
Organizations, and Industrial Psychology. This reader provides the best
collection of classic, ground-breaking articles, as well as cutting-edge
works in the field in a practical, reader-friendly format to support your
experiential OB classroom.
Personal Review: Organizational Behavior Reader, The (8th
Edition) by Irwin M Rubin
"The organizational behavior reader" contains twenty chapters, each with
two or three readings by recognized academic experts, usually adapted
from the original source, e.g., Harvard Business Review. Chapters begin
with the psychological contract (1), theories of managing people (2),
individual and organizational learning (3), individual and organizational
motivation (4), ethics and values (5), personal growth and work stress (6),

and later topics include managing diversity (12), leadership (13), decision
making (15), performance appraisal (18), and managing change (20). The
pantheon of authors features experts such as Henry Mintzberg, Jay
Conger, Denise Rousseau, Ed Lawler, Peter Senge, Cary Cooper,
Deborah Tannen, Geert Hofstede, Hank Sims, Victor Vroom, Jeffrey
Pfeffer, Ray Miles, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. There are numerous
charts, diagrams, graphs and models. Anecdotes and examples are
plentiful. Self-assessments are rare. Few of the readings offer empirical
data; the emphasis is on mental models, images, and concepts.Professors
of organizational behavior, looking for readings rather than integrated text,
exercises, and cases, as well as a less expensive alternative to traditional
college textbooks, will find this book appealing. These authors are, in
general, engaging and highly readable. Chapters can be assigned in an
order or avoided altogether to please the teacher's preferences. The
breadth of topics, the currency of the treatments, and the expertise of the
authors provide a solid foundation for the primary college OB course.
Graduate students in need of less text structure and faculty in need of less
ancillary materials will find the most benefit.The book is rooted in social
psychology and emphasizes perception, learning, thinking, images and
personality, e.g., interpersonal communication, attribution, creativity. There
is less on the `behavior' side of organizational behavior. Several authors
use the device of posing `myths' to contrast with the author's learned,
alternative state (`fact'), and sometimes the myths read more like
`conventional wisdom' or the author's own attempt to make his or her point
more vivid by presenting a myth that exists only in the minds of a few
people. For business school students, this reader is more about
organizations and people than about business. Business faculty and
courses adopting this book will likely want and need to provide a
management context.
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