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November 2025
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488
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979-8-88794-557-6

Essentials of Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice New: AI-powered guidance within our eReader New: Textbook audio in 32 languages and dialects (upon request) New: Podcasts Available

Version 5.0
By Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan

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Key Features

  • Provides the most critical, evidence-based organizational behavior (OB) topics in a compact form. The student text numbers 447 pages, which is over 100 pp. shorter than its longer counterpart
  • Organized around core values and beliefs about teaching and learning organizational behavior:
    • Organizational behavior (OB) matters
    • Evidence-based research is the foundation of OB
    • Different students learn in different ways
    • There is no substitute for hands-on learning
    • Learning the language of OB helps you be more effective in the workplace
    • Technology can greatly enhance learning
    • Flexibility in teaching delivery allows for student success
  • Encourages learners to think about the interpersonal implications of their own and others’ actions, understand how to pursue goals more effectively, and become better communicators
  • New focus on artificial intelligence, including a new feature called AI Insights: Navigating the Future of Work in every chapter
  • Over 25 embedded links to streaming videos engage students, stimulate curiosity, and enrich hybrid and online courses
  • Strong focus on ethics and using critical thinking to address ethical dilemmas
  • Robust theoretical foundation is balanced with applied features such as OB Toolbox
  • Integrates global contexts into every chapter
  • Case studies with discussion questions are gathered into one, easy-to-find Appendix that enables flexibility to cover or omit cases based on faculty preferences
  • Rich and useful learning strategies embedded in the book include:
    • Learning Objectives start each main section to preview the chapter and prepare students to learn
    • Key Takeaways at the end of every main section to summarize new information while it is still fresh and encourage retention
    • New AI Insights: Navigating the Future of Work in every chapter
    • What Do You Think? scenarios at the end of every main section pose situations for student reflection and thought about reconciling their values with common business situations they may encounter in the future
    • Surveys and other self-assessments in every chapter help learners develop a better understanding of themselves as leaders, employees, and colleagues
    • OB Toolbox features provide specific suggestions students can immediately use at work as well as saving for future reference
    • Ethical Dilemmas as well as Individual Exercises and Group Exercises at the end of every chapter provide rich and interactive learning opportunities
  • Customizable

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Essentials of Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice is suitable for undergraduate and MBA-level courses on organizational behavior taught in either two- or four-year colleges and universities. 


Essentials shares the same themes and approaches that have propelled its full-length counterpart Organizational Behavior: Bridging Science and Practice to become a market-leading textbook. This briefer, essentials version covers core organizational behavior topics and gathers together all opening chapter cases from the full-length book into a single appendix. Essentials will appeal to faculty who prefer a concise treatment of organizational behavior combined with the distinct, experiential approach for which Bauer and Erdogan are well known. Essentials provides the most timely and relevant vocabulary, framework, and critical thinking skills necessary to diagnose situations, ask tough questions, evaluate answers received, and act in an effective and ethical manner across situations.  

New in This Version

Overall

  • New section in every chapter called AI Insights: Navigating the Future of Work
  • All cases in Appendix A are new to this version
  • Self-assessments now appear in every chapter
  • Research throughout is thoroughly updated with post-2000 research, unless it is a classic study

By Chapter

Chapter 1: “Organizational Behavior and You” 

  • Recast section on trends influencing OB to include AI, automation, technological advances in general, inclusion and diversity, ethics, and corporate social responsibility (Section 1.3)
  • New survey examples (pulse and organizational opinion) and the role of time in measurement (cross-sectional and longitudinal data collection) (Section 1.4)
  • Significant new subsection on AI technology including keywords on machine learning algorithm, natural language processing, chatbot, and robotics (Section 1.4)
  • New ethical dilemma on lack of employee engagement (Section 1.8)

Chapter 2: “Workplace Composition and Inclusion”

  • New or expanded topics include
    • allyship training, employee resource groups (ERG), hostile work environments, neurodiversity, recruitment advantages, and veterans (Section 2.2)
    • recruitment advantages of inclusion, equity, and diversity (IE&D following SHRM) (Section 2.4)
  • New OB Toolbox “How to Be an Effective Ally” (Section 2.2)
  • New self-assessment “Measuring Your Cultural Orientation” (Section 2.3)
  • New ethical dilemma (Section 2.7)
  • New individual exercise (Section 2.7)

Chapter 3: “Personality and Values”

  • New or expanded topics include
    • trait activation theory (Section 3.2)
    • dark triad personality traits (Section 3.3)
    • imposter thoughts, self-enhancement or self-effacement (Section 3.4)
  • New self-assessment “Schwartz Value Survey?” (Section 3.3)
  • New individual exercise “Increase your Positivity” (Section 3.8)

Chapter 4: “Attitudes and Behaviors”

  • New or expanded topics include
    • job embeddedness (Section 4.3)
    • moral disengagement (Section 4.4)
  • New self-assessment “Job Embeddedness” (Section 4.3)
  • New ethical dilemma (Section 4.7)
  • New individual exercise “Negative Glassdoor Reviews” (Section 4.7)
  • New group exercise “Administering Attitude Surveys” (Section 4.7)

Chapter 5: “Foundations of Motivation”

  • Revised chapter title to highlight the chapter’s increased emphasis on foundations of application
  • New self-assessment “What Is Your Equity Preference?” (Section 5.4)

Chapter 6: “Designing a Motivating Work Environment”

  • Job crafting is now its own subsection with its own OB Toolbox (Section 6.2)
  • New or expanded coverage of
    • illegitimate tasks and precarious jobs (Section 6.2)
    • objectives and key results (OKRs) (Section 6.3)
    • restricted stock options (RSUs) (Section 6.5)
    • algorithmic management (Section 6.6)
  • New self-assessment “Measuring Your Feedback Orientation” (Section 6.4)

Chapter 7: “Stress, Wellness, and Emotions”

  • Greater focus on wellness (Sections 7.2 and 7.3)
  • New individual exercise “Personal Wellness Assessment and Stress Management Plan” (Section 7.9)

Chapter 8: “Communication”

  • New main section on communicating effectively (Section 8.4)
  • New or expanded topics include
    • chatbots (Section 8.3)
    • social media (Section 8.3)
    • voice (Section 8.3)
    • gossip and rumors (Section 8.4)
    • humor (Section 8.5)
    • interactional and informational justice (Section 8.5)
    • meetings and communicating virtually (Section 8.6)
  • New self-assessment “Are You a Good Listener?” (Section 8.4)
  • New ethical dilemma “Silencing a Complaining Employee” (Section 8.9)
  • New group exercise “Improving Communication Skills” (Section 8.9)

Chapter 9: “Groups and Teams”

  • New subsection on teaming and Bernstein's model of teaming; clarifies Tuckman as one possible model but not a prescriptive one (Section 9.2)
  • New subsection on technology-enabled and virtual teams (Section 9.3)
  • New subsection on innovation (Section 9.3)
  • New or expanded topics include
    • social effort gains and social loafing (Section 9.2)
    • cohesion (Section 9.2)
  • New self-assessment “Are You a Good Team Member?” (Section 9.5)
  • New group exercise “Teambuilding: The Tower of Success” (Section 9.9)

Chapter 10: “Conflict and Negotiation”

  • New subsection on gender and race differences in negotiations (Section 10.5)
  • New discussion of mandatory versus voluntary arbitration (Section 10.5)
  • New self-assessment “Conflict Resolution Style” (Section 10.4)
  • New ethical dilemma (Section 10.9)
  • New individual exercise “Reflections on a Conflict” (Section 10.9)
  • New group exercise “Let’s Invest in a House” (Section 10.9)

Chapter 11: “Decision Making and Creativity”

  • New subsection on technology, fairness, and decision-making (Section 11.2)
  • New self-assessment “Decision-Making Confidence Questionnaire” (Section 11.2)
  • New individual exercise “Choosing a College Major or Career Change” (Section 11.8)

Chapter 12: “Leading at Work”

  • New or expanded coverage of
    • exploitative leadership (Section 12.5)
    • leader humor (Section 12.5)
    • paternalistic leadership (Section 12.6)
    • guanxi (Section 12.7)
  • New ethical dilemma (Section 12.9)
  • New individual exercise “Listen to a Leadership Podcast” (Section 12.9)

Chapter 13: “Power, Influence, and Politics”

  • New subsection on preventing harmful organizational politics (Section 13.4)
  • New or expanded coverage of
    • dependence theory (Section 13.2)
    • perceived organizational politics (Section 13.4)
  • New self-assessment “Political Skills” (Section 13.4)
  • New ethical dilemma “Leadership Scenarios” (Section 13.9)
  • New group exercise “LinkedIn Profile” (Section 13.9)

Chapter 14: “Organizational Structure and Change” 

  • New set of factors under why do people resist change? (Section 14.3)
  • New self-assessment "Assessing Your Readiness for Change" (Section 14.3)
  • New OB Toolbox “Managed by a Crowd” (Section 14.2)

Chapter 15: “Organizational Culture”

  • New self-assessment “New Employee Onboarding Readiness Questionnaire” (Section 15.4)
  • New ethical dilemma (Section 15.9)
  • New group exercise “I Spy . . . Organizational Culture” (Section 15.9)

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Talya Bauer

Portland State University

Talya Bauer (PhD, Purdue University) is the Cameron Professor of Management and Affiliated Professor of Psychology at Portland State University. She is an award-winning teacher and researcher and recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Distinguished Teaching Award, the Academy of Management HR division’s Innovations in Teaching Award, and the Academy of Management HR division's Herbert Heneman, Jr. Award for Career Achievement. She conducts research about relationships at work throughout the employee life cycle, including recruitment, applicant reactions to selection, onboarding, and leadership. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as the SHRM and SIOP foundations, and has been published in research outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Personnel Psychology. She has worked with dozens of government, Fortune 1000, and start-up organizations and has been a Visiting Scholar in France, Italy, Singapore, Spain, the UK, and at Google Headquarters, and she has delivered keynote addresses in Australia, Greece, Spain, the UK, and across the United States. She serves in elected positions, including both the Organizational Behavior and HRM Executive Committees of the Academy of Management and Member-at-Large for SIOP. In 2018–2019 Talya served SIOP as its president. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology (and a former editor of Journal of Management). Her work has been discussed in Business Week, Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She is a fellow of SIOP, the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and International Association of Applied Psychology. Her textbooks are in use around the world and have been recognized multiple times for awards by the Textbook Authors Association.

Berrin Erdogan

Portland State University

Berrin Erdogan (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago) is the Express Employment Professionals Professor of Management at Portland State University and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. Berrin’s research focuses on two themes. First, she examines leaders 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 its consequences. She conducted studies and shared results with organizations in manufacturing, retail, health care, education, information technology, construction, and banking among others, in the United States, the UK, China, Turkey, Vietnam, France, and India. To date, she has published over 60 journal articles and book chapters, coauthored the textbooks Organizational Behavior and Principles of Management published by FlatWorld, Psychology and Work published by Routledge, and co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Leader-Member Exchange. 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 and Association for Psychological Sciences. She served as an associate editor for European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and Personnel Psychology and was recently 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, Colombia, Greece, Iceland, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and across the United States. Her textbooks are in use around the world and have been recognized multiple times for awards by the Textbook Authors Association.

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