Management and Organisational Behaviour by Laurie Mullins

...book as part of my Management course. i found that the book coverd every thing that i needed to know for the course and alot lot more.

the book is split into different parts number 1-8 each part covers a different aspect of management and organisational behaviour

Part 1
Chapter 1 - introduction
Chapter 2 - the nature of organisation behaviour
Chapter 3 - appraoches to organisation and managment
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Chatper 21 - management control and power
Chapter 22 - organisational development
Chatper 23 - managerial development and organisational effectiveness

as you can see the chapters cover a wide range of topics which are designed to help manages their performances and the performance of their organisation. i found the text to be well explained and the use of diagrames, and a mixture of theory and example from businesses ... more

author - Laurie J Mullins
Publisher - Prentice Hill
ISBN - 0-273-63552-2

i have just finished using this book as part of my Management course. i found that the book coverd every thing that i needed to know for the course and alot lot more.

the book is split into different parts number 1-8 each part covers a different aspect of management and organisational behaviour

Part 1
Chapter 1 - introduction
Chapter 2 - the nature of organisation behaviour
Chapter 3 - appraoches to organisation and managment

Part 2
Chapter 4 - the nature of organsations
Chapter 5 - organisational goals and objectives

Part 3
Chapter 6 - the nature of management
Chapter 7 - managerial behaviour and effectivness
Chapter 8 - the nature of leadership

Part 4
Chapter 9 - individual differences
Chapter 10 - the nature of learning
Chapter 11 - the process of perception
Chatper 12 - the nature of work motivation

Part 5
Chapter 13 - the nature of work groups
Chapter 14 - group processes and behaviour

Part 6
Chapter 15 - organisation structure and design
Chapter 16 - patterns of structure and work organisation
Chapter 17 - technology and organisations

Part 7
Chapter 18 - job satisfaction and work performance
Chapter 19 - human resource management
Chapter 20 - staffing the organisation

Part 8
Chatper 21 - management control and power
Chapter 22 - organisational development
Chatper 23 - managerial development and organisational effectiveness

as you can see the chapters cover a wide range of topics which are designed to help manages their performances and the performance of their organisation. i found the text to be well explained and the use of diagrames, and a mixture of theory and example from businesses helped in my learning and understanding of the different subjects

i also found that for other modules i could refer to this book as a reference. in addition my mother who took a MBA course 8 years ago still uses her copy as a refernce which i think says alot about the quality of the book that professional managers still use the book. in addition this book is the recomended text for my course which also shows that it is well regarded.

i have to admit that i did find parts of the book to be challenging but i put this down to the fact that im only a first year student and alot of the stuff in the book i have not heard before

so if your a student or a practicing manager i would definetly recomend this book. the only dissadvantage that i dound was the price which was £43 when i got mine for new. 

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