Organisational Behaviour

The world's most successful organisational behaviour text, enhanced with Australian perspectives.

Long considered the standard for all organisational behaviour textbooks, Organisational Behaviour provides the research you want, in the language your students understand. This text continues its tradition of making current, relevant research come alive for readers.

The author team for this 10th Australian edition bring together vast experience in researching and teaching OB in Australian and global contexts, making the content highly relevant and practical for Australian students.

Key features

Career-focused resources help students develop the skills today's employers are looking for.

• An Employability Skills Matrix in every chapter shows the professional relevance of specific pieces of chapter content and text features.
• A Career Objectives feature in every chapter provides advice in a question-and-answer format to help students think through issues they may face in the workforce.
• An Application and Employability section at the end of every chapter summarises the chapter's relevance for students' employability and the skills learnt.

Current, real-world examples help readers understand how to apply OB concepts.

• The Opening Vignette in each chapter brings current business trends and events to the forefront.
• Profiles of real company leaders throughout the text illustrate how course concepts have helped their success.
• End-of-chapter Case Studies illustrate the relevance and importance of an aspect of the chapter's content to the real world of work.

A variety of features and activities encourage students to think critically and reflect on the material covered.

• The Point/Counterpoint feature presents opposing positions on hot topics.
• The Ethical Choice features are based on real business scenarios and situations that have posed an ethical dilemma.
• The Myth or Science? feature presents a commonly accepted 'fact' about human behaviour, followed by confirming or disproving research evidence.
• Experiential Exercises at the end of each chapter provide an opportunity to actively engage in a group or individually.

New to this edition

This edition is one of the most extensive revisions of Organisational Behaviour undertaken. Content has been added/updated in each chapter to reflect the most recent research within the field as well as showcase the major practical issues facing employees and managers in our rapidly changing organisational world.

• Opening vignettes at the beginning of each chapter have been updated to bring current business trends and events to the forefront.
• The new edition features over 800 new examples and references that emphasise diversity, equity, and inclusion; COVID-19 and crisis management; remote work and telecommuting; and much more.
• Content has been reviewed and streamlined, providing readers with a more focused learning experience, and supporting information comprehension and retention.

About the Authors

Stephen P. Robbins is Professor Emeritus of Management at San Diego State University and the world's best-selling textbook author in the areas of both management and organisational behaviour. Timothy A. Judge is currently the Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness at the Department of Management and Human Resources, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University.

James Hunt is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Dr Nadine Campbell is the Academic Program Advisor at Western Sydney University in the School of Business.

Hamza Khan is a top-ranked instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University, a visiting scholar at Trent University, and played a vital role in developing Canada's first social media graduate certificate program at Seneca College. Cathy Ying Xu is a Lecturer in Management at the Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia, where she teaches MBA courses on organisational behaviour, leadership, and human resource management.