Ricky W. Griffin Books

Prepare to think and act like a successful manager with the powerful insights, proven concepts and reader-friendly approach found in Griffin/Phillips/Gully's ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, 13E. This edition equips you with the skills and practical understanding to meet modern management challenges. Examine the fundamentals of employee behavior with balanced coverage of classic management ideas and the most recent organizational behavior developments and contemporary trends. Memorable examples from well-known organizations and managers throughout the book complement numerous cases and features that focus on pressing issues and practical solutions. You also scrutinize your personal strengths and explore areas where you need further development with self-assessment activities and end-of-chapter activities designed to improve your skills.

"International Business illustrates how successful managers must function in a competitive world. Packed with current examples that reflect the vibrancy of the international business field, this student-friendly text offers a managerial approach that keeps an emphasis on skills development, emerging markets and geographical literacy. "--Publisher.

Organized around the traditional functional/process framework, this updated text introduces students to the nature of the management process. In addition to covering basic management functions, it present topics such as global management, technology, diversity, ethics and total quality management, incorporating real-world examples. International management is integrated throughout the text, and half of the end-of-chapter cases are based on international companies. Ancillary package available upon adoption.

Organizational Behavior places core concepts of human behavior and industrial psychology in a real-world context. The text's applied approach and succinct coverage of topical issues helps prepare students to meet practical, day-to-day challenges. Strong end-of-chapter exercises, activities, plus an optional case and exercise book make this flexible text suitable for students at the undergraduate level. Likewise, the authors' emphasis on the latest organizational behavior research continues to attract graduate students. In keeping with the emphasis on current content, the Seventh Edition includes an ongoing case featuring Enron that encourages students to consider how all OB topics tie together and practice applying key concepts by systematically working through the case and answering the accompanying questions. All boxes have been replaced or significantly updated to reflect recent changes in business—including Talking Technology, Mastering Change, The Business of Ethics, Working with Diversity , and World View features. Call-out quotes from managers appear at appropriate points throughout the text to highlight relevant, real-world examples. In addition, each chapter includes one cartoon with a content-based caption that highlights an interesting, and often humorous, aspect of organizational behavior.

For undergraduate courses in International Business.This Forecast 2003 update of International Business, Third Edition is designed to help students stay up-to-date with the critical changes occurring in the global economy--to understand how the decisions and the choices facing businesspersons and consumers around the world are influenced by events and issues such as political upheavals, spread of new technologies, fluctuations in exchange rates, etc. Also, it shows them that which changes someone thinks are important depends to a large extent on who they are and where they're from.

This text provides students with a comprehensive overview of all the important functions of business. This eighth edition focuses on the broad range of developments - economic, social, and political-re-shaping some long-established business practices.