p>In the 21st century it is essential to understand cultural differences in
organizational behavior throughout the world to manage successfully in the global economy.
International Organizational Behavior: Text, Cases, and Skills, Second Edition, provides
comprehensive coverage of the essential topics of international organizational behavior.
With an emphasis on improving student's managerial abilities it presents theory as it
relates to managerial practice in the dynamic international environment.
For upper-level undergraduate/graduate courses in International Management,
Organizational Behavior, Principles of Management, and Diversity in the Workplace.
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to international OB and management.
Presented from a global, rather than a North American or Western European perspective, it
offers students a unique cultural perspective on the roots of organizational behavior
around the world. Finally, the book acts as a guide to the changes that are not only
reshaping organizations, but the ways we understand them as well.
Table of Contents
I. TEXT
1. The Management of International Organizational Behavior
2. Culture and Organizational Behavior
3. Ethics and Social Responsibility
4. Communication
5. Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
6. Groups and Teams
7. Motivation
8. International Human Resource Management
9. Organizational Commitment, Organizational Justice, and Work-Family Interface
10. Managing Diversity
11. Leadership
12. Organization Structure
13. Organizational Culture
14. Organizational Change
II. CASES IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
1. A Cultural Clash in the Entertainment Industry. Anne Marie Francesco and Barry Allen
Gold
2. Conscience or the Competitive Edge? (A and B). Kate Button and Christopher K. Bart
3. The Careless Collaborators. Sara L. Keck and Anne Marie Francesco
4. Portrait of a Young Russian Capitalist. Barry Allen Gold
5. Yutaka Nakamura: A Foreigner in His Native Land. J. Stewart Black
6. Ellen Moore: Living and Working in Bahrain. Gail Ellement and Martha Maznevski
7. Managing a Diverse Work Force in Indonesia. John E. Walsh, Jr.
8. Shell Oil in Nigeria. Anne T. Lawrence
9. Argentina Suites (II): 1996 to 1998 Demian Hodari and Timothy R. Hinkin
10. Aung Sein: An Entrepreneur in Myanmar. Robert W. Hornaday
11. Fuqima Washing Machine Corporation. Haihong Xu
12. Wellcome Israel (A and B). Daniel Mueller
13. Conoco's Decision: The First Annual President's Award for Business Ethics. J. Brooke
Hamilton III and Steve L. Scheck
14. West Indies Yacht Club Resort: When Cultures Collide. Jeffery P. Shay
15. Ireka Construction Berhad: A Chinese Family Business Goes Public. Anne Marie Francesco
16. Malaysian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Richard Eisenbeis and Martin
Schmidt
17. A Candidate for Saudi Arabia -Lotte Kragelund and Mikael Sondergaard
III. SKILL EXERCISES IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
1. Where Have You Been? An Exercise to Assess Your Exposure to the Rest of the World's
People. Paul Beamish
2. Selected Intercultural Incidents. S. Paul Verluyten
3. The Owl: Cross-Cultural Sensitivity. Theordore Gochenour
4. The East-West Game (Emperor's Pot). Donald Batchelder
5. Race from Outer Space: An Awareness Activity. Dorothy Goler Cash
6. How Many Things Do You Like to Do at Once? An Introduction to Monochronic and
Polychronic Time. Allen C. Bluedorn, et al
7. Double-Loop Thinking: Seeing in Two Perspectives. Anne B. Pedersen
8. Bribery in International Business. Dorothy Marcic
9. Babel: Interpersonal Communication. Phillip M. Ericson
10. Ugli Orange Case. Robert J. House
11. Work Values Exercise. Carol Wolf
12. Japanese Decision-Making Exercise (Ringi/Nemawashi). William Van Buskirk
13. Dimensions of National Culture and Effective Leadership Patterns: Hofstede Revisited.
Peter Dorfman
14. Royal Flush. Jessica Robinson, Tamu Lewars, La Shanda Perryman, Torla Crichlow,
Kimberly Smith, John Vignoe, et al.
15. Management in the Year 2200. Hiroaki Izumi
Glossary
Index
Features
NEW - Cross-cultural research on culture and organizations—e.g., the University of
Michigan World Values Survey; Donald Brown's human universals; and findings from project
GLOBE—the largest comparative study of leadership ever conducted.
Presents students with important theoretical frameworks, and a list of human behaviors
found in most known societies—challenging the ideas that culture is the primary
explanation of human behavior.
NEW - Chapter-end World Wide Web references.
Encourages students to use the Internet and links provided to explore key topics in more
depth.
NEW - Added case studies and skill exercises.
Supplies students with a more comprehensive set of learning material.
NEW - Added and updated examples throughout.
Familiarizes students with current real-world scenarios of behavior in organizations from
a wide variety of cultures.
Unique content and format.
Gives students the only International OB text with cases and exercises that compliment
topics covered throughout the text.
Chapter-opening “Culture at Work” illustrations and learning objectives.
Introduces key concepts and alerts students to the major issues covered in that chapter.
Emphasis on emerging trends affecting organizational behavior around the world—Creating
either different or similar behaviors.
Underscores what students need to know to understand and manage the differences of other
cultures, and poses the questions they will have to consider in the future when starting
their careers.
Chapters devoted to Ethics and Human Resource Management —In addition to traditional OB
topics.
Discusses the important issues in international and global organizational behavior.
Paperback
528 pages
