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Organizational Behavior, 11th Edition by Stephen P. Robbins
This is the text that we are currently using in my Organizational Behavior class. While the text is well laid out, easy to read and well-written, Robbins' tendency to blame the baby-boomer generation for all of society's modern-day problems and ethical issues is a bit much to swallow. I do not enjoy reading mere opinions that potentially carry the weight of fact by students when presented in a text-format by a "OB professional" and not presented as merely the opinion of the author. For example, Robbins states in chapter 3, page 74:
Apologyfrom the seller
The book I had received from Escobook was not hardcover as it was promised. It was also an Indian edition. (No color, thin paper, no different than photocopy) I paid almost $80 for $20 book. As soon as the the seller was informed about my dissatisfaction of the product, she sent my money back.
BEWARE!
If you are expecting a real version, buyer beware.The version I received through Amazon was not a real US copy, but rather the "Eastern Economy Edition".It was a "photo-offeset reproduction" which is legally for sale only in Bangledesh, Burma, etc.You can purchase these on E-bay for a fraction of what I was charged.It is a black and white version only, so pictures and graphs intended for color are much harder to read.Since it is basically a photocopy of the original, even the text is harder to read than it should be.
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Book for Class
I bought this book for school. So far it is alright. If one is looking into a leadership role it is a good read

Very useful and educational book
We are using this in my Intro to Leadership course at college and I have found the book to be very interesting. The author writes very clearly and explains everything quite well. I know its weird to write about, but I really enjoy this authors writing style. I rarely get an academic book where the writing is simple and very straight forward. In a crunch, I can read the first setence or two from each of his paragraphs and understand the concepts of the chapter quite well.
great leadership resource
Found this book a great resource for any nursing leadership class or just to have as a nurse leader. Good information on all styles of leading. ... Read more

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Great condish but no quick ship
See above.Took longer to arrive than I would have liked.Maybe 2 weeks.

Great book : Easy to follow and practical
I have the 2000 edition, I like it very much. Practical, easy to follow, great use of Theory of Games exemples.
Its in my top 2 textbooks for Economics Undergraduate
I've only used 9 textbooks in my undergraduate carrer in Economics, however, this book would probably fit either as the best or 2nd best... I can't really determine which deserves the "coveted" "best" slot.
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A Wealth of Information
This book is FULL of incredible information for those wanting an introduction to OB or a more in-depth look.While it is a bit weighty (and, like most text books, expensive!) I'm extremely pleased with the breadth and depth of information it covers in OB in the context of business, global organization, and best-practices. A GREAT text for OB classes! ... Read more

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Start with the NABC's
I suggest that the reader start with chapter 5: "It's as Simple as NABC." To me the how-to description of the value creation process is the heart of the book.Articulating the Need, Approach, Benefit and Competition sounds easy, even simplistic.It turns out to be hard, but very stimulating work togo through ten or twenty iterations until a compelling proposition is created.Why work so hard using such a simple process?I suggest that the reader go next to chapter 17: "A Foundation for National Competitiveness in a World of Abundance."To quote: "We live in a world of abundance.Only through innnovation can this abundannce be converted to growth, prosperty, and the quality of life."The rest of the chapters fill in the context for innovation and provide nuts and bolts details on implementation.

Practitioners guide to extraordinary customer value creation
This practical and accessible book eloquently argues that innovation is much more predictable and achievable when the right process is used to guide those involved in the innovative effort.The authors leave no doubt as to what the process is, or who is involved.It's the 5 Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want.And these disciplines involve everyone in the firm--not just a few guiding superstars.Rather then a long list of new and complex concepts, the 5 Disciplines will probably appear as common sense to most readers.The authors forcefully argue that innovation is what enables the world's inhabitants to choose between living in scarcity or abundance, and that the best guide to innovation in the post-industrial "Exponential Economy" is to focus on Customer Value Creation (CVC).This is a book for practitioners, not theorists, although the latter will find the models offered provide fertile ground for validation and refinement.For the practitioner, the 5 Disciplines unfold in short, easy-to comprehend chapters that invite immediate application to one's current place of employment.Sprinkled liberally in the 300+ pages between the covers are suggestions for immediate application of a principle just presented and short stories that illustrate the authors' practical experience in putting their proposals into action.While SRI is most likely a place very unlike any firm at which you've ever worked, the book's slight bias towards fundamental research and innovation (vs. incremental product enhancement) entices the reader to always think first about what's most important.To, as the authors suggest in the early pages, put your innovative energy into new pain killers, not vitamins.At the end of the day, you want the results of your innovation to alleviate real pain, to not be just a genericundifferentiated "nice-to-have".This book is an excellent guide to anyone, or organization, ready to sign up to this goal.

This is a BAD book on innovation
This is a BAD book on innovation
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Organizational guru Ken Blanchard has long had a knack for writing management books that are easy and fun to read (Read more

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Wow, what a book!
While I have read other Ken Blanchard books, this one truly got my attention and was wonderful.As a student collegiate athelte myself, Blanchard and Bowle's book was easy reading and very easy for me to connect with based on my own experiences.The book allows one to follow a main character that starts off by being fired from his job, then gets involved coaching a young hockey team and calls on a coach he remembers from his school days to assist and turn the team around.With the assistance of this "coach" the main character begins to understand what it takes to make a successful team. He realizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and building team pride.This is a book that you can't put down, it can be read quickly and easily and I do feel everyone would be able to associate with parts of the book.Blanchard and Bowles do a great job at using the hockey team to teach the readers about team building yet simultaneously showing how these same principles can be applied to a work site.One is taken through the steps of team building and given examples time and time again on how these steps can be applied.There are very interesting twist throughout the book that keeps one's attention.I recommend this book to everyone.

Team work - A neccessity in any workplace
Team Work - Everyone knows the importance but yet more often than not, our own individuality gets in the way. How much more can be achieved if everyone behaves for the collective good of the group rather than for himself?
For the simple minded only - and not in a good way
This book is a utopian, unrealistic, poorly thought-out, infantile piece of trash. It's an insult to the intelligence of any adult who reads it. Written at a third grade level with 16-point type, this book's contents would be better suited to a coloring book. The philosophy it presents a real no-brainer, and if you need to read this to learn these principles, you have bigger problems to worry about. The "story" is just that, a "story" - there isn't an ounce of truth or realism to it, so just file this book under "office fairy tales". Believe it or not, I'm not a pessimist, I love books, and I'm totally into "self/professional improvement" topics. But do not waste your time or money on this silly book. ... Read more

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Great Service
I am very pleased with the service provided by Amazon.com.The book arrived in excellent condition, very well packed, and shipped promptly.Great communication and shipping updates.Definitely recommend and will use again!

Really a lesson about organization culture
For every manager who wants to improve his organization it's a mast

An educational experience
For novices to org. culture, this book takes you on a thorough journey into the corners of what constitutes an organization's culture.My favorite take-away is that Schein made an abstract concept much more concrete.He creates a nice framework to view org. culture, gives examples continuously and provides many nuggets of knowledge.Plenty of useful references are given as well.
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The big DUH
This book is good enough at what it sets out to do, which is to define the major concepts and terms used by members of the Cult of Six Sigma. Spoiler alert: Six Sigma is process improvement using logic and data. (Well, duh!) Now you can save yourself nine bucks.

A basic primer anyone can read and understand
Essential.Managers don't miss out.Everyone needs to know these business basics.

Good basic introduction
We have used this book as a good basic introduction to Six Sigma.
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Superb
Another excelent hard bound text from Thompson/Delmar Learning publishing house. This textbook will teach you the fundamentals of real estate law giving you example after example on situations with can and probably will occur. ... Read more

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woooow...I didn't know that...gee wiz!
Overall the book contains good information. However... at times the definitions are ridiculously and unnessisarily long-winded... most of the content is common sense-- wait...so you are telling me I should be ethical?... wait...people of different cultures are...different? Wha?! no way!!
it is the best book on the market
I found it to be well organized, beginning with the individual, then bringing in the group process, and ending with the total organization aspect. Points are brought forth in a dynamic manner.

communication
What is the major barriers to effective comunication.as an manager or supervisor,how to eliminate or reduce these barriers. ... Read more

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applied the knowladge
i have read this book with a great deal of intrest. it was a great help in implementing change and designing a organization structure that is able to deliver on the new strategy.

excellent resource
Really good intro to ideas and concepts needed to redesign an organization in terms of its structure.Best if you already have some degree of experience in do it so you can really apply the concepts.

Guide to the factors that shape organizational design
Jay R. Galbraith is an internationally recognized expert on organization design. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and Professor Emeritus at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. This book is a updated/revised edition of 'Designing Organizations' which was originally published in 1995. It is split up into 10 chapters.Read more

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Informative Read
This book was ideal for the doctoral class I just completed. The book thoroughly explained the salient points and provided useful information for further doctoral work. Although the book was scholarly, it was an easy and pleasant read. I recommend this book for anyone who wants a keener understanding of the organization as a system

Excellent Work
This is an excellent book. The author does a fantastic job of explaining organizational theory from a conceptual perspective. The book does not spend a lot of time discussing research methodology. The book does a great job of presenting information in a form that a manager can use in evaluating various approaches to organizational behavior issues. This volume will certainly remain an important part of my toolkit!

Great book!!
As a novice to organization theory, I am reading Hal Rainey's book on public organizations and this book. This book is well written and gives balanced points of view over various theories and perspectives in the organization studies. This book is adopted as required readings in many PhD courses on organization theory. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Negotiating    2. Organizational sociology    3. Social Science    4. Sociology    5. Sociology - General    6. Organizational theory & behaviour    7. Social Science / Sociology / General    8. Sociology, Social Studies   

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How is the human brain like the AIDS epidemic? Ask physicist Albert-László Barabási and he'll explain them both in terms of networks of individual nodes connected via complex but understandable relationships. Read more

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Greate Read and Interesting New Perspective on How things work in this Jungle
I got registered onto a few networking sites like Linkedin, Orkut and Hi5 in March and suddenly started thinking about term Network in social context. Being a computer engineer by profession and having worked on communication networks for last 5 years it was quite obvious to find parallels. And then I stuck upon this book. I must say i wasn't disapponted. Each Ideas has been built with convincing examples and is well supported by results from ongoing research being done by author. I would wait for him to write something on dissemination of information through social networks and network dynamics.

Highly Recommended for the Technical Practitioner
In an informal survey held in a recent webinar, over 50% of the (several hundred) participants ranked "Word-of-Mouth" as the most typical source for leads that convert to paying customers. Interesting...!
Excellent -Applicable to SOA Networks
I have been involved in telecommunications networking for years, and recently started up a "community of interest" web site around SOA Networks.
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A great read at the 1 year mark after Fish! 1
As a manager in a government agency, I utilized the first Fish! book with our team as a part of our Manager's meeting last year this time. It was widely regarded as the best meeting we've ever had. Everyone loved it. Everything that the first book indicated would happen did. It was really pretty awesome. We are now widely regarded as the the best shops in the state, largely because of the practices we put in place with the first book.
Make Change Stick
The well known FISH! philosophy can be applied to the health care setting. In this series, the 6th floor of a local hospital is transformed by the FISH! philosophy started by a nurse manager. After she leaves, the health care administrators are concerned that the FISH! philosophy was just a gimick. They plan to ensure a lasting change. This is achieved by helping employees make an internal change of heart rather than only an external or pep rally type of change. The application to health care is very timely and may be very helpful to nurse managers and nursing staff, especially those who work on units with low morale.

This Fish STINKS!
Chirpy ideas, bad writing.I feel sorry for the poor saps who get stuck being slaves under this motivational trash.In your job, to "make their day" is best made by giving them a paycheck, or better yet a raise.That's why people work.You have to "be there" otherwise you get fired.As for "play"?Heh.Who feels like "playing" when they feel like they're going to puke when they are force-fed this garbage at the office?
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An Old Favorite Brought Up to Date
This book has two real aspects.
Very Good Economics Book.
I just finished a Managerial Economics MBA course that used this text.I found it to be very well written compared to textbooks I've read for other classes.I think it does a good job explaining supply and demand, intro to pricing, and intro to strategy and game theory.Examples are used to improve the reader's "economic" intuition.I talked to a friend who just finished a differnt MBA program who used this book.He recommended the book and especially liked the strategy segments and the prisoner's dilema.

overview only
It seems like a glorified table of contents.It tries to cover too much and absolutely no detailed in-depth explanations, and absolutely no rigorouse mathematical explinations.It's good only as an table of contents with some details.If you are interested in a specific topic, you are better off finding information on the web or go elsewhere.The cases are fun to read, and provide some insight into the real life problems.Recommend it for night time leisure reading, but not for seriouse students who wants to learn a solid fundation to the subject. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. General    3. Leadership    4. Management    5. Organization    6. Organizational Behavior    7. Reference    8. Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior    9. Organizational theory & behaviour