The book "Organizational Behavior Essentials You Always Wanted To Know" by Vibrant Publishers may not fully meet the expectations its title suggests. While it aims to provide a broad introduction to the subject, it tends to oversimplify the complexities of organizational behavior.

Although the book's goal of covering a wide range of topics is admirable, its execution may leave readers disappointed. The concepts presented are often too simplistic, resulting in a superficial understanding of the subject matter. For instance, the book briefly touches on intricate topics such as group dynamics and organizational culture, without providing the depth required to truly comprehend these subjects.

Furthermore, the book lacks practical examples and case studies that would make the topic more relatable and engaging. This absence of real-world application makes it harder for readers to absorb the theoretical information and leaves them wanting more concrete and applicable knowledge.

While the book does provide a structured approach and uses easy-to-understand language, it may only be beneficial for absolute beginners. For those seeking a comprehensive and practical understanding of organizational behavior, this book may fall short.

Overall, the book may serve as a quick overview for beginners, but for readers seeking depth, practical insights, or a comprehensive understanding of the subject, it may be worthwhile to explore other resources.

Organizational Behavior Essentials You Always Wanted to Know by Vibrant
Published: September 10, 2021
Vibrant Publishers
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I loved this book from Vibrant Publishing. They offer so many books to help you grow within your current role and offer excellent advice with easy-to-understand examples.

Not only does this book have a ton of helpful information, but there are chapter quizzes to test your knowledge as well as chapter summaries that neatly wrap the chapter up.

Regardless of the role you play in a business or a position you’re looking to play, this book is filled with information that will help take you to the next level.

Every aspect is broken down in bite-sized pieces and explained in plain language. This is a resource for leaders and for those who may just need a little inspiration.

Learning is a constant in any successful business and having books like this that keep you engaged and offer tools to ensure understanding, and it’s easy to put into practice the things between these pages.

This book ostensibly does what it says on the tin. It summarises a wide range of topics across the ill-defined (in general) sphere of organisational behaviour. If you're looking for a summary of pertinent areas if you've never thought about business before, it might be a reasonable introduction, but I must admit beyond the index I was sorely disappointed. The content is surface level and filled with generalisations. Its explorations of topics like diversity and inclusion are lacking in any depth, and to be honest if you relied on any of its explanations you would be missing most of current thinking. There are a lot of examples used that seem lazy - talking about old examples of diversity in marketing plays as relevant to 2021 discourse - and the language that's used - leaders / organisations "must" do everything... is rather annoying and hard to read. I've never encountered anything like this to be honest. It's like trying to put as many generalities into a reader's head as quickly as possible, no thinking required.
I feel a bit bad about this review but I can't really find anything I didn't get annoyed about as a strategic HR professional. Some of the diagrams might be useful frameworks for students or those early in their management career to use. But please read more widely than this book.
Book received as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers.

This book presents a concise exploration of organizational behavior topics. It is concise that it was able to cover many topics such as training, human resources, etc. However, it lacks the depth some may expect in an organizational behavior textbook. It may also need more references to some published reseach unless it is intended to be written this way.

This was a great entry level book for Organizational Behavior and reminds me of a book I would read in college on the topic. If you want to learn basic information about the topic it’s perfect!

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a copy to honestly review!

I have a background in HR, and a master's in Psychology. I also run my own consultancy business. So I have read a few management, leadership, and organisational development books in my time. Additionally I have experience as a manager, leader, and advising those who are managers and/or leaders.

This book offers a good surface level summary of organisational behaviour. It provides an overview of much, and is great is you have little or no knowledge. For example I can see it being of interest to 18 or 19 year olds with little work experience preparing for starting a university course in Business (or similar).

For any other audiences, the summary is over simplistic, provides no depth, and does not adequately provide context for the statements it makes. Whilst it defers to some real life examples, on the whole provides no detailed case studies, so lacks relevant background information, and how such examples relate to the theories it is discussing. I would also argue that it products American focused relevance, and although tries to frame it's narrative within the international context, the lack of detailed analysis means the information it provides is not useful the world over.

3 stars because it is a good summary, however if you do pick up, please do read around in areas you find interesting to ensure a through understanding.

Thanks to Net Galley for a free ARC in exchange for an honest review

This book is a great resource for managers, planners and business consultants. Heck, it’s great for every person that works for an organization. Green or seasoned, there’s insight in this book for everyone on topics such as office politics, diversity, effective leading, learning and development, and stress in the workforce. I’m very pleased I picked up a copy of Organizational Behavior Essentials You Always Wanted To Know. If you’re thinking about getting a copy of this book, I highly recommend it.

A perfect book for those who manage teams and do lot of people management activities. Given the virtual work environment we are living in right now, this book holds a lot of information on how to make sure the organization work in a better way.
The book will be released on 15th Sep, 2021.

I work for the government which is a massive organization. My previous work experience was in the private sector so going public was a big change for me. I’m young in my career and I work with people twice my age so I am always looking for ways to delicately shake up the work place without ruining our mission. This was a great read with solid information. I’m not going to be able to change the whole government but I’ll try to implement some of the things I’ve learned and also try to keep things I learned about as well.