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Back in Paperback, with a new afterword by the author Of the
thru-hikers who set out to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, most
don't make it. Robert Rubin's chances didn't look good.
Thirty-eight years old, dispirited, and burned out by a job he no
longer loved, he decided to leave mortgage and wife and cul-de-sac
life behind for a journey that could take half a year--or perhaps
never end. On the trail's wooded ridges, Rubin found himself part
of a strange vagrant culture of pilgrims and dropouts, a world with
its own rules and rituals. With eloquence and humor, he recounts
his trek--the people he met, the landscapes he passed through, the
spiritual and physical endurance involved (despite a diet heavy in
Snickers bars and macaroni & cheese, he lost seventy-five
pounds along the way). "On the Beaten Path" is a wise, witty look
at one of the few remaining pilgrimages in our disillusioned age.
This new kind of OB product,Organizational Behavior: Real Solutions
to Real Challenges, came from our increasing recognition of the
challenges faced by former students working in contemporary
organizations today. Those graduates tell us that they are
ultimately challenged most by the "people problems" in their work.
So, we wanted our current students to understand that reality and
to exposure them to the best current evidence and thinking about
how informed people attack those challenges. Our charge was to
create a product that focused on real solutions to real challenges
in the real world. We have drawn on many sources including the
Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS)
and the Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) of the Academy of
Management.
Negating the notion that there is no such thing as "bad" writing,
this book guides first-year students through the dos and don'ts of
composition, from such basic questions as "Can I use 'I' in a
college essay?" to more advanced points about structure and style.
Emphasizing the importance of writing in all majors, the author
encourages students to find their own voice and to express
themselves without jargon or "academese." Tips are provided on
concision, supporting claims, marshaling arguments, researching
topics, documenting sources, and revision.
Managing Organizational Behavior by "Baldwin/Bommer/Rubin"
distinguishes itself from other OB texts by taking a
carefully-balanced approach to OB. It covers all traditional OB
topics but in a decision-oriented, not just descriptive, way. It
embraces the best OB models and evidence but engages students in
how to use those models to improve their skill-sets and more
successfully navigate organizational life. It is expressly designed
to reconcile student demands for relevance and application with
instructor interests in rigor, evidence and appropriate coverage of
the discipline. Its student-centric materials provide students with
relevant cutting-edge research and applications through extensive
case studies, "Manage What?" situations, and practical Tool Kits
that bring OB and career success to real life.
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