Organisational Behaviour: Core Concepts and Applications, Fourth Australasian edition is the ideal text for a one-semester Organisational Behaviour course. Fourteen concise, relevant and tightly focused chapters, presented in a highly visual manner, are designed to engage rather than overwhelm students. Numerous case studies and real-world examples throughout the text examine how organisations in the Australian, New Zealand and Asian region are responding to contemporary business issues such as: sustainable business practices and ethical considerations the gender pay gap employee stress and work-life balance workforce flexibility and casualisation gen Y and the ageing workforce skills shortages globalisation telecommuting outsourcing diversity in the workplace and managing cross-cultural teams the '24/7' nature of contemporary communication technology, including social media. Complemented by the latest research in the field, this text provides a thorough analysis of contemporary organisational behaviour.