Classics of organizational behavior / [electronic resource] edited by Walter E. Natemeyer.

Includes bibliographical references.

Unit 1. Management and the behavioral sciences. The Hawthorne experiments / F.J. Roethlisberger -- The human side of enterprise / Douglas Murray McGregor -- The management theory jungle / Harold Koontz -- The world of work and the behavioral sciences: a perspective and an overview / Harold M.F. Rush -- Unit 2. Individual behavior and motivation. A theory of human motivation / Abraham H. Maslow -- The motivating effect of cognitive dissonance / Leon Festinger -- Toward an understanding of inequity / J. Stacy Adams -- That urge to achieve / David C. McCelland -- One more time: how do you motivate employees? / Frederick Herzberg -- Expectancy theory / John P. Campbell ... [et al.] -- Unit 3. Interpersonal and group behavior. Transactional analysis / Eric Berne -- Origins of group dynamics / Dorwin Cartwright and Alvin Zander -- Assets and liabilities in group problem-solving: the need for an integrative function / Norman R.F. Maier -- Groups and intergroup relationships / Edgar H. Schein -- Groupthink / Irving L. Janis -- Unit 4. Leadership and power. Patterns of aggressive behavior in experimentally created social climates / K. Lewin ... [et al.] -- How to choose a leadership pattern / Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H. Schmidt -- The bases of social power / John R.P. French and Bertram Raven -- Style or circumstance: the leadership enigma / Fred E. Fiedler -- Life cycle theory of leadership / Paul Hersey and Kenneth R. Blanchard -- Path-goal theory of leadership / Robert J. House and Terence R. Mitchell -- Unit 5. Behavioral dimensions of organizations. Informal organizations / Chester I. Barnard -- Bureaucratic structure and personality / Robert K. Merton -- The individual and the organization: some problems of mutual adjustment / Chris Argyris -- Control in organizations: individual adjustment and organizational performance / Arnold S. Tannenbaum -- Organizations of the future / Warren G. Bennis -- Human organizational measurements: key to financial success / Rensis Likert -- Unit 6. Organizational change and development. Overcoming resistance to change / Lester Coch and John R.P. French -- Management by objectives and self control / Peter F. Drucker -- Grid organization development / Robert R. Blake and Jane S. Mouton -- Patterns of organization change / Larry E. Greiner -- Organization development: objectives, assumptions, and strategies / Wendell French.