Organizational Behavior and Virtual Work Concepts and Analytical Approaches

With the globalization of work and technological advancements in recent years, and with emphasis on service quality today, organizations have changed. Virtual work has emerged as the new employment relationship and has been embraced by employees and employers in many industries. This book explores the dynamics of changing organization structures, theories of leadership and trust, and how dimensions of self-efficacy works in this new work relationship. Organizational Behavior and Virtual Work: Concepts and Analytical Approaches shows the enormous impact of technology and globalization on employment relationships and also predicts how they will contribute to the changing dimensions of organizations in the future. With a unique blend of theory and application in the real world of virtual workers, the book presents the most recent research and developments in the relatively new and still emerging area of virtual work. It takes an in-depth critical look into the key factors affecting the virtual work environment with practical inputs of suggestions and recommendations.

With the objective of presenting information about this new work scenario, this book attempts to unfold important human behavior processes in organizations. The volume presents a rare combination of the necessary concepts of human behavior in organizations along with the results of research in the field and also makes practical recommendations on virtual work programs.

Key features include a unique blend of research with organizational behavior concepts and practical recommendations for workers, managers, and business executives.

Preface; PART I: Introduction of Concepts; Organizations; Traditional Organizations; Cultural Perspective; Elements of Organizations; Challenges of Organizational Design; Dimensions of Structure; Contemporary Organizational Designs; Challenges for Today’s Organizational Design; Organizational Life Cycle; Organizational Culture; Is It Possible to Change Corporate Culture?; Leadership; How Do We Define Leadership?; Are Leaders Born or Made?; Leaders versus Managers; Qualities of Leaders; The Personality Profile of Effective Leaders; Leadership Attitudes; Ethics and Leadership; The Role of Leadership in Organization; Leadership Theories; Team in Organization; The Four Roles of Leadership; The Leadership Challenge; Guidelines for Leading Meetings; Activities of Successful and Effective Leaders; Goals, Values, and Concepts; Roles and Relationships; Determination of Effective Leadership: Various Dimensions; How Founders/Leaders Embed and Transmit Culture; Self Efficacy; Positive Organizational Behavior; Positive Psychology; Basic Social Learning Concepts; Trust; Definition; Types of Trust; Barriers to Building a Culture for Trust in Organizations; Leadership and Organizational Trust; Measuring Organizational Trust; How to Develop Trust in Organizations; Trust and Globalization; Work Life Balance; Introduction; Work Life Balance Defined; Dual Career Families; Work Life Balance Initiatives; Demographic Factors; Organizational Factors; Studies on Work Life Balance; Women and Family; Globalization and Virtual Work; Introduction; Emerging Trends in Employment Relationships; Diversity Issues; PART II: Research and Critical Analysis; Research on the Relation Between Leadership Effectiveness, Perceived Organizational Climate, Interpersonal Trust and Self Efficacy Among Virtual Workers In Different Organization: Introduction; Virtual Workers; Leadership Effectiveness; Self Efficacy; Trust; Job Involvement; Review of Literature; Studies of Organizational Climate; Studies of Leadership; Studies of Self Efficacy; Studies of Trust; Studies of Job Involvement; Research Design; Rationale of the Study; Objectives; Hypothesis; Variables; Research Design; Methodology; Rationale of the Sample; Distribution of the Sample; Measures and Scoring Methods; Procedure; Statistical Analysis; Results; Discussion; Summary and Conclusion; Limitations, Suggestions, and Implications; Index

Arvind K. Birdie, PhD, is an associate professor and acting principal at IIMT School of Management (Oxford Brooks University), Gurgaon, India. Dr. Birdie has been consistently recognized for her teaching abilities. As an avid reader, her strength lies in teaching various interdisciplinary subjects with equal ease. Besides academic teaching and training, she has organized management development programs for corporate and academicians. She is a regular presenter at various international and national conferences and has published several papers in refereed journals. Her areas of interest include leadership, work-life balance, virtual work, and positive psychology. She is taking post-graduate and graduate courses of management for over 12 years.

Madhu Jain, PhD, is presently associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. She is also director of the Department of Life Long Learning, also at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. She has been teaching and guiding postgraduate, graduate, and PhD students for over two decades and has supervised several research projects at the advanced level as well. Dr. Jain has published nearly 40 papers in scholarly national and international journals and also published four books in the area of psychology. Dr. Jain is associated with many national and international associations. As a student, she was a Gold Medalist and Merit Holder at the graduate and postgraduate level.