Organizational behavior shows many facets. Hence, its study comprises numerous research fields. Although there are many disciplines involved in this area of research, psychology plays an important as well as outstanding role. This reader contains several extracts of the psychological view on organizational behavior and tries to contribute to its understanding and improvement. The authors focus on different perspectives and contents within this broad field. Job satisfaction, leadership or absenteeism, for example, are quite popular keywords of organizational behavior and issues that the reader will come across time and time again.

The Editor: Kathrin Heinitz, born in Freising in 1975, studied European Business Studies in Landshut as well as Psychology at the Universität des Saarlandes and the Freie Universität Berlin. She holds a diploma in Psychology and her doctoral thesis focused on the assessment of leadership. She is currently research associate at the Freie Universität Berlin.