Volunteers is the first comprehensive book on the organizational behavior of volunteer workers. It explores why people volunteer for organizational work, drawing upon original research and the existing scholarly work in this field. In her study, Jone L. Pearce looks at successful and unsuccessful organizations in areas such as the arts, social services and health care. She discusses the implications of volunteers on general theories of organizational behavior, and also outlines the practical effects of an understanding of volunteer workers for all organizations employing them.

Volunteers: The Organizational Behavior of Unpaid Workers (People and Organizations)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pearce, Jone L.

Mental Health

Routledge

Organizational Behavior Real Research for Real Managers

Business & Money

Business Culture

Melvin & Leigh, Publishers

Organizational Behavior: Real Research for Real Managers draws on organizational behavior research to address the practical problems all managers face in gaining mastery of organizations. This book clearly, honestly, and accurately conveys what the field of organizational behavior can say to experienced managers, providing applications and advice based in what systematic research can tell us. WHAT'S NEW IN THE FOURTH EDITION: This new edition represents a significant expansion and updating of earlier versions. New additions include the practical implications of new research on off site work, narcissistic leaders and distributed leadership, dynamic delegation, and nepotism. Each of the chapters has been updated with the latest scholarly research; this book reflects our best knowledge in organizational behavior through 2016. Most significantly, there is a new Chapter 8, Creating Effective Teams. Organizations rely on teams to do much of their work, and teams can be extraordinarily difficult to manage and a source of frustration to their members. This new chapter takes what we have learned from the large body of research on teams doing organizational work and applies it to the practical problems managers face. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jone L. Pearce is Dean's Professor of Leadership in The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. She has published 100 scholarly articles in her field of organizational behavior, has edited several volumes, and has authored four previous books. She is a Fellow and past president of the Academy of Management, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and International Association of Applied Psychology, and has received numerous honors and teaching excellence awards.

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