
Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice is suitable for undergraduate and MBA-level courses usually called Organizational Behavior taught in either two- or four-year colleges and universities.
Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice incorporates effective ways to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of management with the distinct, experiential, and evidence-based approach for which this book is known. Organizational Behavior provides the most timely and relevant concepts, vocabulary, frameworks, and critical-thinking skills necessary to diagnose situations, ask tough questions, evaluate answers received, and act in an effective and ethical manner taking into consideration the specific situational characteristics. For those interested in using simulations, Version 4.0 is aligned with Lead: The Simulation to provide a rich, online learning experience.
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- Integrated coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the workplace and human interactions.
- Includes a new main section in each chapter that combines a discussion of ethics and technology implications, such as big data, analytics, online privacy concerns, and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance issues.
- Each chapter features a new Chapter-Opening Case. New cases include companies and leaders at Cayuga Collection, Gap, Inc., Fully, Zoom, PepsiCo, Patagonia, SpaceX, IKEA, Kind, Google, Detroit Bikes, StitchFix, Southwest Airlines, Campbell Soup Company, and Costco.
- New small, medium, large, and not-for-profit businesses and NGOs and associated examples are featured throughout the book.
- All Chapter-End Cases are fully updated. They include companies and leaders at Brew Dr. Kombucha and Tea, Salesforce.com, Netflix, SAS, Walt Disney Company, REI, NASA, Slack, Lego, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alibaba, Kronos, and General Motors.
- Version 4.0’s narrative was streamlined to express key concepts more concisely and powerfully than ever before, thereby reducing overall length.
- Supplements include a fully revised Best OB Case Studies casebook composed of the most popular cases that appeared in previous versions of the main text. The authors have brought each case fully up to date. This free casebook is only available to adopters in a digital version that can be shared with students or it can be included in a printed, customized student version along with the main text. Case-based discussion questions, answer guidelines, and test items with answers are included in the instructor materials.
- Previous versions of this book have been awarded the Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.

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Berrin Erdogan Portland State University
Berrin Erdogan (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) is the Express Employment Professionals Professor of Management and Affiliated Professor of Psychology at Portland State University. Berrin’s research focuses on two themes. First, she examines how leaders lead through the relationships they build with their employees, and the implications of manager-employee relationships for employee effectiveness, retention, and well-being. Second, she is interested in understanding person-job fit and misfit, with a focus on why and how employees find themselves overqualified for their jobs and the consequences of being overqualified. She conducted studies and shared results with organizations in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, information technology, construction, and banking among others, in the USA, UK, China, Turkey, Vietnam, France, and India. To date, she has published over 60 journal articles and book chapters, and coauthored seven books, including Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice, Essentials of Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice, and Principles of Management. Her work has been discussed in media outlets including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, BBC Capital, and Wall Street Journal, among others. She is a fellow of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and Association for Psychological Sciences (APS). She served as an associate editor for European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and Personnel Psychology and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Personnel Psychology. Berrin is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and served as a visiting scholar and gave invited talks in Australia, Canada, Greece, Iceland, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the USA.