Organizational Behaviour: Understanding and Managing Life at Work, 12th edition

GARY JOHNS is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Honourary Research Chair of Management in the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, and Adjunct Professor in the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has research interests in absenteeism from work, presenteeism, work design, research methodology, and the impact of context on organizational behaviour. He has published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Discoveries, Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, American Psychologist, Research in Organizational Behavior, Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Social Science & Medicine, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Canadian Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, Human Relations, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Journal of Business and Psychology, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, and Cross Cultural Management. Professor Johns is co-author of Organizational Behavior: Understanding and Managing Life at Work (13th Edition, Pearson). He was the recipient of Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division’s New Concept Award, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s Edwin E. Ghiselli Research Design Award, the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Concordia University Research Award, the award for the Best Article published in Human Relations, the award for the Outstanding Paper published in Cross Cultural Management, the Academy of Management Review Decade Award, and the Google Scholar Classic Paper Commendation. Professor Johns is an elected Fellow of SIOP, American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, Academy of Management, and International Association of Applied Psychology. He is the former Chair of the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the former Associate Editor of Journal of Organizational Behavior. Professor Johns is currently on the editorial board of Human Relations. He was formerly on editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, and Applied Psychology: An International Review. Professor Johns held visiting positions at University of Sheffield, University of Oregon, Queensland University of Technology, Australian Graduate School of Management and Australian School of Business (University of New South Wales), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Singapore Management University, Australia’s Griffith University, the University of Tasmania, and the University of British Columbia.

ALAN M. SAKS (PhD, University of Toronto) is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Professor Saks was a member of the Department of Management (now the John Molson School of Business) at Concordia University and the School of Administrative Studies (now the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies) at York University. Professor Saks earned an HBA in Psychology from Western University, an MASc in Industrial–Organizational Psychology from the University of Waterloo, and a PhD in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources from the University of Toronto. His research interests include recruitment, job search, training, employee engagement, and the socialization and onboarding of new employees. Professor Saks has published his research in refereed journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Human Resource Management Review. In addition to Organizational Behaviour: Understanding and Managing Life at Work, he is also the author of Research, Measurement, and Evaluation of Human Resources, Managing Performance Through Training and Development, and co-author of Advanced Introduction to Employee Engagement.