Organizational Behavior

Dr. Ricky W. Griffin served as Distinguished Professor of Management and Blocker Chair in Business at Texas A&M. He received his PhD in organizational behavior from the University of Houston. He has worked as an editor of the Journal of Management and as an officer in the Southwest Regional Division of the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association as well as in the Research Methods Division and the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Griffin spent three years on the faculty at the University of Missouri (Columbia) before moving to Texas A&M University in 1981. His research interests include workplace violence, employee health and well-being in the workplace and workplace culture. A well-respected author recognized for his organizational behavior and management research, Dr. Griffin has written many successful textbooks, including "Management," "Human Resource Management," "Management Skills," "Introduction to Business" and "International Business." He has taught executive development programs and presented seminars in over 15 countries. Jean was among the top 5 percent of published authors in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology during the 1990s and she received the 2004 Cummings Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. She is also a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Jean has published over 30 research articles and chapters and 9 books, including "Strategic Staffing," "Organizational Behavior," "Human Resource Management" and the five-book "Staffing Strategically" (2012) series for the Society for Human Resource Management. Jean was also a founding co-editor of the "Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management" book series. Her applied work includes leveraging employee surveys to enhance strategic execution and business performance, developing leadership and teamwork skills and creating and evaluating strategic recruitment and staffing programs. Jean has taught online and traditional courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in human resource management and organizational behavior in the United States, Iceland and Singapore and taught multiple executive training programs. Dr. Stanley M. Gully was a professor of human resource management at Penn State University. Prior to joining the faculty in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State in 2014, Dr. Gully was a faculty member at Rutgers University (1998–2014) and George Mason University (1996–1998). He received his bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from Michigan State University. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 2014 and was ranked by the Academy of Management as one of the top 50 most influential scholars who received their degrees since 1991. Dr. Gully's research interests included work at the interface between training and individual differences. His publications include articles in journals such as Personnel Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He also co-authored textbooks on strategic staffing, organizational behavior and human resource management. In addition, he co-authored a series of staffing books for SHRM and co-edited the Business Expert Press series. His refereed articles and chapters have been cited more than 4,900 times.

• Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR.1. An overview of organizational behavior.2. The changing environment of organizations.Part II: INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORS AND PROCESSES IN ORGANIZATIONS.3. Individual characteristics.4. Individual values, perceptions, and reactions.5. Motivating behavior.6. Motivating behavior with work and rewards.Part III: SOCIAL AND GROUP PROCESSES IN ORGANIZATIONS.7. Groups and teams.8. Decision making and problem solving.9. Communication.10. Conflict and negotiation.Part IV: LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE PROCESSES IN ORGANIZATIONS.11. Traditional leadership approaches.12. Modern leadership approaches.13. Power, influence, and politics.Part V: ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES AND CHARACTERISTICS.14. Organization structure and design.15. Organization culture.16. Change management.