This first South African edition of Organisational Behaviour: Managing People and Organisations aims to make students more successful in their life and career by helping them understand themselves, understand organisations, and understand the role of organisational behaviour in their personal career success.

It enables students to develop sound knowledge of individual and group behaviour in organisations and to appreciate how the entire organisational system operates. This will enhance their understanding of how to apply the organisational behavioural concepts to a range of different problems or situations. The text gives students a complete understanding of the modern context of organisational behaviour, including ethics, diversity, competitive advantage, technology and the global context.

This edition prepares South African students for the realities of the country’s business environment by engaging with familiar private- and public-sector organisations and pertinent local issues. A global business perspective is balanced with an African one, which highlights the importance of workforce diversity. This edition also explores the South African labour force and legislative environment, and how these shape organisational behaviour and influence management decisions.

Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts-and why we study them.Telling new stories-about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more-this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archival records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels.

This is the second in a pair of economic texts commissioned by the OECD in the field of environmental economics The Pearce Report, "Blueprint for a Green Economy", put the role which monetary evaluation of environmental costs and benefits can play firmly into the public eye. This book goes further and looks at six countries where such evaluation techniques are applied and at the obstacles to their further use The case studies, written by leading experts in each nation, show how these methods are being taken up in the UK, Norway and Italy and the ways in which they are already extensively in use in the USA, Germany and the Netherlands. The authors also describe the obstacles to their use - the lack of knowledge of environmental economics at government level, the competition from other government priorities; the failure of environmental groups to grasp the importance of financial evaluation to their cause But, as this book makes clear, significant advances are being made, both in the implementation of these economic techniques and, above all, in striking and yet further developments in economic thinking David Pearce is a co-author of "Blueprint for a Green Economy

Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts-and why we study them. Telling new stories-about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more-this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archive records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels.

Get ready for a dizzying dive into the "McCay Dimension" with this true and false tribute to the undisputed master of the imagination. McCay is an invented biography chronicling authentic - though only partially true - stories of the life of the future creator of Little Nemo, Winsor McCay - in which McCay's life is enriched by an imaginary encounter with British mathematician and science fiction writer Charles Hinton. Hinton, as a mathematician and philosopher, postulates the existence of a fourth spatial dimension - and seeks an artist capable of representing it, one with an innate sense of perspective and a limitless imagination. In Winsor McCay, Hinton finds such a man, and when their imaginations combine, an entirely new world opens up to them both...

After raising three daughters, volunteering in public school special education classes for eighteen years, and sitting on several Boards serving people with various disabilities, Jean Phillips finds herself confined to a hospital bed in her small living room with no hope of ever moving independently again. She feels like she is in jail. As a polio survivor, she knows she had been pushing her body to its limits with all her activities, but saying no is not easy for her. Now she has been felled by an accident and the debilitating effects of Post Polio Syndrome. She reads through the journal her mother kept during the years Jean was in and out of hospitals as doctors tried to restore mobility to her legs and feet. She cannot remember when she was only four and awoke one morning with a high fever, unable to walk. Soon, though, her mother%u2019s words match her memories of her childhood. She is so happy to finally come home from the hospital that first time, and she works hard with the physical therapist who visits every day. Her mother is thrilled when she can stand holding on with only one hand. Progress is slow, but her mother%u2019s faith and Jean%u2019s determination keep them from being discouraged. Although she gradually regains some strength, and is able to walk with crutches and braces, doctors feel more can be done. She is accepted as a patient by Shriner's Hospital when she is seven years old. Immediately she is put in a cast from her neck to below her hips in an attempt to straighten the spine. No visitors are allowed inside the hospital, but twice a week they visit through the window from outside. Jean's father gets a ladder so they can be closer to her, and they use a Walkie-Talkie device to communicate. Her first surgery is to fuse her spine, and her parents wait anxiously until they are allowed to call at 6:00. They cannot visit her until two weeks after the surgery, and the wait is very hard for the whole family. Two months later she is home in a body cast. So begins a childhood spent between home and hospital. There are many more surgeries and casts. A treatment called "wedging," is perhaps the most painful she endures. The diary ends when Jean is 16, and no longer eligible for the services of Shriner's. Two years later her mother dies, and leaves the family reeling. Without the guidance she needs, Jean gets pregnant and enters into the first of two lonely, loveless marriages. She tries to say and do what her in-laws want, but she knows they only see her disability. After her second divorce, she and two of her daughters follow a man to Michigan, looking for the "true love" that has evaded her. When he deserts her, she returns to California and decides to volunteer in her youngest daughter's special education class. She finds she loves the work. It is close to a dream she has always harbored of running a pre-school. She joins the Board of Directors of Far Northern Regional Center, serving people with developmental disabilities. With others, she works to end abuse of disabled people in care facilities. She is deeply involved in community projects when she breaks her leg. Given the added complications of Post Polio Syndrome, her doctor says she will never leave her bed without assistance. This is her newest challenge: can an independent, dynamic woman find happiness when her body no longer has the strength to carry her.

Prepare to think and act like a successful manager with the powerful insights, proven concepts and reader-friendly approach found in Griffin/Phillips/Gully's ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, 13E. This edition equips you with the skills and practical understanding to meet modern management challenges. Examine the fundamentals of employee behavior with balanced coverage of classic management ideas and the most recent organizational behavior developments and contemporary trends. Memorable examples from well-known organizations and managers throughout the book complement numerous cases and features that focus on pressing issues and practical solutions. You also scrutinize your personal strengths and explore areas where you need further development with self-assessment activities and end-of-chapter activities designed to improve your skills.

Prepare to Think and Act like a manager with the powerful insights, solid concepts, and reader-friendly approach in ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS, 12th Edition. This text equips you with the skills and practical understanding to meet modern management challenges. You will delve into the fundamentals of employee behavior in today's organizations as the book balances classic management ideas with thorough coverage of the most recent organizational behavior developments and contemporary trends. Memorable examples from organizations and managers you will instantly recognize are woven throughout the book and work with new cases and boxed features that focus on pressing issues and reinforce the book's practical perspective. You'll also learn more about your strengths and areas where you need development though an array of self-assessment activities.