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09/12/2012

09/12/2012

From our author, Jone Pearce's page:

This is a good description of what happens when people who are both captured by the romance of leadership and have no experience in an industry are put in charge: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/magazine/teresa-sullivan-uva-ouster.html?ref=magazine

The attack on Teresa Sullivan, and the school that rose to her defense.

09/12/2012

03/29/2011

03/29/2011

American University of Sharjah (Dubai, UAE) is the newest university to adopt Organizational Behavior Real Research for Real Managers.

03/14/2011

Jone Pearce is developing a new chapter on Leadership for the 2012 3rd edition of the book. Please join the Discussion to let her know what you would like to see in that chapter.

03/14/2011

Our 3rd printing of the 2009 edition should be arriving from Bang Printing (Brainard, MN) in a couple of weeks.

12/30/2010

Pearce's Organizational Behavior Real Research for Real Managers is now available on Kindle (at only US$3.99 per chapter

09/14/2010

Congratulations to Fulfillment Specialist, David Lara, all orders were filled same or next day in our busiest moth, August

08/10/2010

Why aren't more people paid for performance? This is a hope for something that cannot exist for most jobs in most organizations. It is often difficult to measure the performance that matters. It is not whether or not employees should be paid for their performance; it is whether or not they actually can be paid for the performance organizations want.

08/04/2010

An excerpt from, How to Hire:

We all want to hire the "best person" for the job; but the best at what?

Some companies say they try to hire the smartest people they can find, whereas others proclaim that they seeks employees who share its values and attitudes. There are as many ideas about what what is "the best employee" as there are company leaders who have been asked the secret of their success.

06/17/2010

Our policies and practices make us environmental leaders in the publishing industry:
We reuse all packing materials
and the backs of discard paper for all internal communications

We use 100% recycled paper for all outside communications

Most at Melvin & Leigh telecommute

Our books are all printed on paper with recycled content
Our books are printed in Minnesota, with strict, enforced environmental laws

06/16/2010

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06/16/2010

This book draws on organizational behavior research to help with the practical problems we face in gaining mastery of organizations. It 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. It is organized by real organizational challenges: How to Hire, Why Managers?, Working with Feelings at Work, Managing Performance, Managing Incentives, Navigating the Social Scene, Understanding Culture, Mastering Power, and How to Fire and Retain