| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : biology and organizational behavior / Stephen M. Colarelli and Richard A. Arvey -- Progress in molecular genetics and its potential implications in organizational behavior research / Zhaoli Song, Wendong Li, and Nan Wang -- Genetic influences on attitudes, behaviors, and emotions in the workplace / Remus Ilies and Nikos Dimotakis -- The biological basis of entrepreneurship / Scott Shane and Nicos Nicolaou -- Fitness, adaptation, and survival : the role of socio-anthropic characteristics, personality, and intelligence in work behavior / Timothy A. Judge and Robert Hogan -- Neurobiological systems : implications for organizational behavior / Jayanth Narayanan and Smrithi Prasad -- Physiological functioning and employee health in organizations / Zhen Zhang and Michael J. Zyphur -- The service-for-prestige theory of leader-follower relations : a review of the evolutionary psychology and anthropology literatures / Michael E. Price and Mark Van Vugt -- Evolved decision makers in organizations / Peter Descioli, Robert Kurzban, and Peter M. Todd -- Primal business : evolution, kinship, and the family firm / Nigel Nicholson -- Evolution and cooperation : implications for organizational behavior and management theory / Roderick E. White and Barbara Decker Pierce -- Biology, evolution, and organization : promises and challenges in building the foundations / Glenn R. Carroll and Kieran O'Connor |
| Summary |
In recent years, evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics have emerged as prominent theoretical perspectives within the social sciences. Yet despite broad levels of commonality between the disciplines-including an emphasis on adaptation, evolved mechanisms that guide behavior, and consequences of mismatch between these mechanisms and novel environments-studies that apply these perspectives on social behavior to organizations remain relatively rare. The Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior brings together contributors who shed light on the potential that behavioral genetics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Organizational behavior.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Organizational behavior
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Colarelli, Stephen M., 1951- editor.
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Arvey, Richard D., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780226127293 |
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022612729X |
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