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This text combines management and organizational behaviour, and is intended to teach readers how to be effective performers within an organization, individually and as part of a team. Most of the book focuses on organizational behaviour, whilst also covering issues and practices that every manager needs to know. There are technology transformation boxes throughout the book, they include information on high-tech business, e-commerce and the Internet and they explain how these important issues affect managers and businesses. There is an inventory of the behavioural skills relevant to each chapter to help develop and emphasize these particular skills.

Integrates management and organisational behaviour to reflect business practices. This work discusses key concepts and offers students, applied behavioural skills and a grounded understanding of how organisations function. It contains a chapter structure that presents the subject matter in a format specifically for the UK and European courses.

The wealth of many of today's businesses comprises the collective knowledge and innovation of their employees and leaders. In the global economy, innovation has become as valuable as gold. Consequently intellectual property protection has become the focus of considerable legal and regulatory attention, at both an international and national level. Theft, piracy, and infringements on IP can be revealed at every level, from the state to the individual. Patents, Profits and Power examines the less desirable players on the world stage, why they choose to defy the law, and how the rest of the world is responding. The book also examines how the internet is changing the rules of intellectual property protection. It is packed with international case studies and examples to illustrate the impact of the internet on the development, control and protection of valuable ideas, products and services. This title will prove an invaluable reference source for anyone who is involved in protecting intellectual property.