This international handbook provides students and managers with an essential resource connecting the theories to the real world of organizations and showing how to apply them. Goes beyond other handbooks by linking theory to practice in the real world. Gives students and managers practical principles to apply to all types of work situation. Includes contributions from a selection of the foremost experts in Organizational Behavior including: Teresa Amabile, Jay Conger, Fred Luthans, Antonio DeNisi, Michael Beer.
Book Details:
- Author: Edwin Locke
- ISBN: 9780470685334
- Year Published: 2009
- Pages: 662
- BISAC: BUS085000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Organizational Behavior
About the Book and Topic:
This international handbook provides students and managers with an essential resource connecting the theories to the real world of organizations and showing how to apply them. Goes beyond other handbooks by linking theory to practice in the real world. Gives students and managers practical principles to apply to all types of work situation. Includes contributions from a selection of the foremost experts in Organizational Behavior including: Teresa Amabile, Jay Conger, Fred Luthans, Antonio DeNisi, Michael Beer.
· This book is a must for every manager’s desk and a great tool for teaching. · This handbook was the first attempt to accumulate the wisdom of decades of research and consulting and to turn this accumulated knowledge into easy to understand and practically useful management principles. The update will cover current areas such as change, leadership and knowledge. · AUTHOR PLATFORMS AND SUPPORT: Leading US scholar prominent in Society for Industrial Organization Academy of Management HR division
About the Author
Edwin A Locke is Dean’s Professor of Motivation and Leadership at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and is also affiliated with the Department of Psychology. He received his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Harvard and his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell. He has published over 200 articles, chapters and books, including (with G. Latham) A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance, (with others) The Essence of Leadership, and Prime Movers: The Traits of the Great Wealth Creators. Dr. Locke has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology and the H. Heneman Career Contribution Award from the Academy of Management (Human Resource Division). He has also received the Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award from the University of Maryland and numerous teaching awards.