Organizational Behavior : Global Multicultural Perspectives (First Edition)

In the field of global business, managers must understand and promote the pride of all cultures in both their home and host countries. Organizational Behavior: Global Multicultural Perspectives, reflects the authors' passion for, and deep commitment to, a multicultural, multi-faceted understanding of human behavior and its impact on the workplace. In today's increasingly global interdependent companies and economies it is necessary for professionals to fully comprehend the synergistic roles played by regional, governmental, and religious forces. This comprehensive volume is a crucial resource for every manager who belongs to social organizations, as well as students of both domestic and international business, political science, public administration, and medical and health organizations, including hospitals and research centers. By helping students understand specific cultural identities, the text enables them to become multicultural, multinational managers who can build their own cultural philosophies and match their corporate fitness to different business environments.
Since organizational behavior is a multi-disciplinary area covering an enormous social, intellectual, cultural, and psychological territory, this text analyzes material from many different disciplines. By providing a perspective that is quite broad, yet also very deep and detailed, the text gives students a meaningful, comprehensive view of organizational behavior in all its many diverse interpretations.
Chapters in the book include the following:
Understanding the Complexity of Social Behavior and Human Relations in Organizations
Cultural Philosophical, Biosophical, and Technosophical Behavior
Encephalization of Human Behavior in Organizations
Foundations of Individual Identity
Understanding and Measuring Individual Personality
Contemporary Multicultural Knowledge-based Organizational Behavior
Five modes of Managerial and Leadership Behavior and Group Dynamics