This volume presents the complex dynamics of organizational behavior. It sheds light on the interplay between working relationships, leadership, management, and political influence, offering fresh insights into how these elements shape organizational culture and performance. Leaders and managers will gain valuable strategies for navigating power structures and interpersonal relationships, while employees will find guidance on advancing their careers through strategic political awareness. Topics such as group behavior, diversity and inclusion, cultural and emotional intelligence, and ethical decision-making are thoroughly examined.
Each chapter is designed for clarity and emphasizes practical application. By doing so, the volume equips readers with the skills to implement effective strategies in the workplace. The book further provides a better understanding of organizational behavior and enables readers to drive positive change in the workplace. By blending theory with actionable insights, the book will appeal to students, academics, and professionals alike, interested in learning how to address real-world challenges.
Chapter
1. Organizational Behavior: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.-
Chapter
2. Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior.
Chapter
3. Motivation
and Group Dynamics.
Chapter
4. Leadership, Structure, and Change.
Chapter
5. Emerging Perspectives in Organizational Behavior.
Chapter
6.
Organizational Behavior in a Hybrid Work Context: What Does That Mean at the
Individual and the Team Levels?.
Chapter
7. Toxic Leadership and
Machiavellian Behavior: a Critical Reappraisal.
Chapter
8. The Economy and
Suicide.
Chapter
9. Doing Fieldwork on Professional Training and Development
in an Organizational Behavior Context: Three Phases of the Fieldwork
Process.
Chapter
10. Transforming Leadership and Satisfaction Into
Organizational Success: Insights From Voluntary and Emergency Service
Organizations.
Chapter
11. Reduced Affective Commitment of Employees in
Organizations Investigating the Role of Ostracism and Emotional
Exhaustion.
Chapter
12. Women, Management and Globalization.
Chapter
13.
Leadership and the Emerging HR Challenges: Ensuring Quality Integration in
the Era of Artificial Intelligence.
Chapter
14. Workplace Learning and Human
Resource Development.
Chapter
15. Quality of Relationships That Promote
Effectiveness, Change and Renewal as Measured by the Relational Climate
Survey.
Chapter
16. Interpersonal Interactions in the Workplace:
Understanding and Addressing Incivility.
Chapter
17. An Organizational
Systems Approach to Consumer Motivation and Behavior Change: a Case From
Residential Energy Conservation.
Chapter
18. How to Flourish Well: Moral
Centrality as an Indicator of Low Egoistic Consequences of Living a
Flourishing Life.
Chapter
19. The Management of Family Firms.
Chapter
20.
Qualitative Research in Leadership and Organizational Studies.
Chapter
21.
The Behavioral Level of Emotional Intelligence and Its Measurement Predicting
Effectiveness in Leadership ,management and Professions.
Chapter
22.
Emotions in Action: How Affective Convergence and Divergence Contribute to
Team Creativity.
Chapter
23. Approaches to Exploring Organizational Dynamics
in Flexible Work Environments: a Discussion on the Development of Qualitative
Methods in Current Organizational Behavior Research.
Chapter
24. Diversity
and Inclusion From an Organizational Behavior Perspective: Can AI Play a
Role?.
Chapter
25. Digital Transformation Strategies: Comparative Impacts on
White-collar and Blue-collar Workers in Austria.
Chapter
26. Influence,
Managerial Networking, and Conflict Management.
Adebowale Akande PhD. is an international social theorist, historian of ideas, and an emerging towering figure in presidential studies, global politics, and behavioral and organizational studies, His work, in collaboration with distinguished experts like Bernard Bass, Susan Fiske, Peter B. Smith, David Lester, Mark Peterson, David Watkins, Robert House, Gerald Ferris, Pamela Perrewe and others, investigates the complexities of effective leadership, interpersonal work dynamics, and the varied cultural values that shape contemporary societies. Akande's extensive research ranges from analyzing learning patterns to probing the cultural foundations of leadership expectations and the crucial alignment of CEO behaviors with these expectations for maximum leadership effectiveness. His insights also encompass understanding social perceptions and biases, scrutinizing the formation of stereotypes and prejudices, and the impact of social dynamics, such as cooperation, competition, politics and power structures, on reinforcing or counteracting these biases.
He is a foundational member of the 2004 [ GLOBE] study, the most extensive and renowned study of its kind within the social sciences. Akande has been honored with numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 1992, the IUPSYS International Award in 1996, and the Frank Andrew Award University of Michigan in 1996. Additionally, he has received the ISP Award in 2000, a Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship in 2005, a Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship in 2008, a Fellowship of Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria in 2008, a Certificate of Honor from the Indian Institute of Planning and Management in 2008, and the IAGT Award in 2018. He was a co-recipient of the 2007 Ursula Gielen Global Book Award and the Gordon W. Allport Prize in 2005 for his research on ambivalent sexism and global family relations. Renowned for popularizing cross-cultural studies, he currently holds the position of international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and serves as a guest professor at several Canadian universities in British Columbia, Canada.
