Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Chapter 1. Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
Chapter 2. Changing Context
Chapter 3. Positive Perspective
Chapter 4. Foundations of Individual Behaviour
Chapter 5. Personality and Personal Effectiveness
Chapter 6. Learning Process
Chapter 7. Motivational Process
Chapter 8. Managing Work Motivation
Chapter 9. Perceptual Process, Attitudes, and Values
Chapter 10. Attributional Process-Internality and Optimism
Chapter 11. Roles and Role Effectiveness
Chapter 12. Coping with Frustration, Stress, and Burnout
Chapter 13. Decisional Process and Consensus Building
Chapter 14. Transactional Analysis and Managerial Interpersonal Styles
Chapter 15. Effective Groups and Teams
Chapter 16. Conflict Management
Chapter 17. Developing Collaboration
Chapter 18. Leadership Theories and Styles
Chapter 19. Developing Leadership for Tomorrow
Chapter 20. Organizational Structure
Chapter 21. Communication
Chapter 22. Power and Politics
Chapter 23. Organizational Culture and Climate
Chapter 24. Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization
Chapter 25. Organizational Change
Chapter 26. Organization Development
Case Study: Organization Development in a Voluntary Organization
Index

The third edition of Understanding Organizational Behaviour is a comprehensive textbook specially designed to meet the needs of management students. The book has been extensively revised to include new topics, examples, and real-life illustrations.

The book explores the core concepts of organizational behaviour (OB) and explains them with the help of numerous examples and case studies. It provides in-depth coverage of the issues and challenges faced by Indian organizations in the areas of traditional culture and modern management. This edition continues the accepted process approach to understand OB. It emphasizes on the role of personality and leadership styles, emotional intelligence, and the roles and functions of the individual, the team, and the organization. Various essential concepts, such as societal culture and organizations, managing work motivation, preventing and managing conflicts in organizations, which form the core of interventions at organizational level, have been dealt with in detail.