Culture and Organizational Behaviour
- Jai B. P. Sinha - ASSERT Institute of Management Studies, Patna, Bihar, India
Key Features:
- Contains updated case studies from Indian organizations
- Focuses on current and emerging strategies in organizational structures, leadership, power and politics
- Covers topics like balancing work and other responsibilities, power and politics, and conflict and negotiation, which, though extremely crucial to organizational behaviour, have perhaps not got due attention in the existing literature
- Presents the relatively unexplored effects of Indian culture on organizational behaviour. Provides a platform where both theoretical and practical issues can be addressed by managers, researchers, students and teachers alike.
The book has well researched content and excellently covers the basic knowledge of organizational behaviour and the advancements in the field…It captures organizational behaviour and issues with well-woven essence of the Indian organizations in its text…the author has tried to blend the theory with the practical aspects of organizational behaviour through appropriate use of examples, interesting case-lets and exercises. List of tables, boxes and figures, proper referencing and indexing make the navigation through the book really easy and clear. Avoidance of jargons and use of simple language makes it very useful for the readers.
The book presents the basic knowledge of organizational behaviour as developed in the West, and stimulates the research in the Indian cultural perspective. The book will be of immense use to students and teachers of organizational behaviour in the faculty of management.
One of the best contributions which provides a considerable knowledge about organizational behavior as it has developed in the West and situates them in the Indian cultural perspective...provides insights to help readers to get in-depth understanding of contents in a precise manner.... The book is a comprehensive read and has successfully handled the challenge of broad-basing and replicating the existing thought of theories and practices of organizational behavior evolved in Western countries in Indian context. The chapters of the book end with summary of the key-points, self-administrable exercises and detailed case studies which add value to book. On the whole the book is a great contribution on the subject and is certainly to benefit academic readers, researchers and management students.
The book has well researched content and excellently covers the basic knowledge of organizational behaviour and the advancements in the field…It captures organizational behaviour and issues with well-woven essence of the Indian organizations in its text.
