ORGANIZATIONAL-BEHAVIOR IN THE NEW ORGANIZATIONAL ERA

Changes in contemporary firms and their competitive environments trans late into a new focus in organizational research. This chapter reviews organizational behavior research reflecting the shift from corporatis t organizations to organizing. Key research themes include emerging em ployment relations, managing the performance paradox, goal setting and self-management, discontinuous information processing, organization l earning, organizational change and individual transitions, and the imp lications of change for work-nonwork relations. Research into organizi ng is building upon and extending many of the field's traditional conc epts. This chapter suggests that some assumptions of organizational be havior research are being superseded by those more responsive to the n ew organizational era.