Summary
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Culture and Organizational Behaviour is a modular textbook that highlights the effect of the confluence of western and Indian cultural influences. This book presents the basic knowledge of organizational behavior as developed in the west, adds the latest global research findings, and situates them in the Indian cultural perspective. The book also highlights new issues that emanate from the interface of Indian culture and organizational behavior.
Key Features: Simple and relatively jargon-free language, accompanied by an Instructor's Manual; Measures and questionnaires for illustrations, discussions, and further explorations of researchable ideas; and Attempts to create enough space for the students, faculty, researchers, and policy makers to address theoretical as well as practical issues.
The Backdrop
The three chapters in this part present an integrative vantage point to view the rest of the book. Chapter 1 traces the evolution of the discipline of organizational behaviour. It shows how the discipline developed in the West and how Western culture, in an almost invisible manner, helped in the transition of organizational behaviour from the machine model to the human relations-oriented model. The salience of culture became obvious when the discipline moved to India. Chapter 2 enhances this salience by providing a framework of Indian culture and shows how it enables Indians to adopt a flexible inclusive stance by integrating global and indigenous influences. Chapter 3 contextualizes Indian culture into the larger milieu. It discusses the economic, social, and political facets, ...
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