Table of Contents

1. Panorama general del comportamiento organizacional. 2. El entorno cambiante de las organizaciones. 3. Los fundamentos del comportamiento individual. 4. Motivación en las organizaciones. 5. Motivación del empleado y desempeño en el trabajo. 6. Motivación del desempeño del empleado mediante las recompensas. 7. Manejo del estrés y el balance vida-trabajo. 8. Toma de decisiones y solución de problemas. 9. Fundamentos del comportamiento interpersonal y el comportamiento de grupo. 10. Uso de equipos en las organizaciones. 11. La comunicación en las organizaciones. 12. Modelos tradicionales para entender el liderazgo. 13. Visiones contemporáneas del liderazgo en las organizaciones. 14. Poder, política, y justicia organizacional. 15. Conflicto y negociación en las organizaciones. 16. Fundamentos de la estructura organizacional. 17. Diseño organizacional. 18. Cultura organizacional. 19. Cambio y desarrollo organizacional.

About the Author

Dr. Ricky W. Griffin serves as Distinguished Professor of Management and Blocker Chair in Business at Texas A&M. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Houston. He has worked as editor of the Journal of Management and as an officer in the Southwest Regional Division of the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association as well as in the Research Methods Division and the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Griffin spent three years on the faculty at the University of Missouri (Columbia) before moving to Texas A&M University in 1981. His research interests include workplace violence, employee health and well-being in the workplace and workplace culture. A well-respected author recognized for his organizational behavior and management research, Dr. Griffin has written many successful textbooks, including: MANAGEMENT, ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, HR, MANAGEMENT SKILLS, INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS, and INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. Gregory Moorhead is an associate professor of management at Arizona State University. He attended Texas Tech University and the University of Houston. He earned his BSIE, M.B.A., and Ph.D. in organizational behavior and management. He joined the faculty at ASU in 1978 and has taught courses in management principles, management policy and strategy, personnel management, and operations management, as well as graduate seminars in organizational behavior and international management. Dr. Moorhead has written numerous articles that have been published in leading managerial journals, including ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW, HUMAN RELATIONS, ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES, EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT, JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, and others. His research focuses on the fields of groupthink, group decision-making, job design, leadership, and organization structure. He frequently travels internationally with his students, giving him a unique first-hand perspective on numerous global topics.