This title offers concise, critical and stimulating accounts of the main issues and developments in topics of current and ongoing importance in organizational behaviour. This edition focuses on employee versus owner issues in organizational behaviour.

How to keep up to date with the current developments and issues in the study and practice of organization behavior? That is the challenge for students, academics and practitioners. The series complements the standard texts of OB and the more comprehensive, historical review volumes, by offering concise, critical and stimulating accounts of the main issues and developments in topics of current and ongoing importance in OB. This volume of Trends focuses on issues relating to Time in Organizational Behavior. From a cultural and cross-cultural perspective, this volume examines such topics as: Organizational and researcher-derived time scales and their impact on our understanding of organizational behviour Cross-cultural conceptions of time in careers; career transitions from different time perspectives and their connection to person-career fit The interplay of the demands on personal and organizational time, raising issues associated with viewing time as a resource (somewhere between "money" and "life") Corporate work-life initiatives and organizational motives The malleability of organizational identity over time For a quick, insightful and authoritative window on the latest in OB, scholars and professionals will continue to turn to the Wiley Series of Trends in Organizational Behavior.

This fourth volume in the Trends in Organizational Behavior series offers a review of the leading research being conducted in organizational behavior on the global level.

Applied Behavior Science in Organizations provides a compelling overview of the history of Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) and the opportunity it presents for designing and managing positive work environments that can in turn have a positive impact on society. The book brings together leading experts from industry and research settings to provide an overview of the historical approaches in Organizational Behavior Management. It begins with an introduction to recognized practices in OBM and the applications of fundamental principles of behavior analysis to a variety of performance problems in organizational settings. The book then highlights how organizational practices and consumers’ behavior combine in a complex confluence to meet an organization’s goals and satisfy consumer appetites, whilst often unintentionally affecting the wellbeing of organizational members. It argues that the science of behavior has a responsibility to contribute to the safety, health and wellbeing of organizational members, consumers of organizational products, and beyond. Finally, the book recognizes the essential role of organizations in initiating, shaping, and sustaining the development of more nurturing and reinforcing work environments, through discussion of the need for innovation while adapting and responding to growing social upheaval, technological advances, and environmental concerns, alongside crises in the global economy, health, education, and environment. Showcasing emerging work by internationally recognized scholars on the application of behavior science in organizations, the book will be an essential read for all students and professionals of Organizational Behavior Management, as well as those interested in using organizational applications to create new models of management.

This volume aims to introduce organizational researchers and practitioners to the role of neuroscience in building theory, research methodologies and practical applications. The volume introduces the field of organizational neuroscience and explores its influence on topics such as leadership, ethics and moral reasoning.