WELCOME TO A NEW ERA OF ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR! Knowledge is replacing infrastructure. Values and self-leadership are superseding command-and-control ‘management’. Networks are replacing hierarchies. Virtual teams are replacing committees. Companies are looking for employees with emotional intelligence, not just technical smarts. Globalisation has become the mantra of corporate survival. Co-workers aren’t down the hall; they’re at the other end of an Internet connection located somewhere else on the planet.

Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim, 2nd edition, is written in the context of these emerging workplace realities. It prepares students for this new era by discussing the latest OB concepts, such as four-drive theory, resilience, emotional intelligence, virtual teams, social identity theory, and knowledge management. This book has also become respected for being the first to describe several contemporary issues and practices, such as employee engagement, corporate blogs and wikis, future search conferences, psychological harassment, bicultural audits, and appreciative inquiry.

Active learning, critical thinking, and outcomes-based teaching have become important foundations of classroom learning, and Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim sets the standard of support by providing dozens of cases, team exercises, self-assessments, video programs, and online support materials. Dismissing the traditional model that OB is for managers alone, this book also pioneered the more realistic view that OB is for everyone who works in and around organisations.