People, Management and Organizations

This brand new and innovative core textbook fuses topics from the related fields of organizational behaviour and human resource management to provide new insight into the interconnectedness of these important and complementary areas. The text takes an integrated and dynamic approach to the study of how work and people are organized and puts the human at the centre of human resource management and organizational behaviour. The accessible student-centred focus and wide range of learning features makes the book an ideal course text for students at all levels. Combining a strong applied approach with a concise and jargon-free writing style, this book will help readers to understand underlying principles and apply them to their future careers as managers and HR practitioners. This textbook caters for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students studying modules that synthesise Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour topics. It is also an ideal text for those studying any HRM module that takes an applied approach. Dr Anna Sutton is Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Occupational Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is also the author of the textbook, Work Psychology in Action (Palgrave, 2015). PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF OB AND HRM 1. Integrating OB and HRM 2. What is work all about? 3. Recruitment and Selection PART II: THE MANAGEMENT RELATIONSHIP 4. The Individual and the Organization 5. Encouraging and Managing Performance 6. Leadership: Managing Leaders and Leading Management PART III: CREATING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS 7. Culture and Change 8. Strategy: Creating Purpose 9. Structure: Fit for Purpose PART IV: SUSTAINING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS 10. Learning and Development 11. Well-being and Engagement 12. Future-proof Workplaces.