Used by more than a million people throughout the world, this highly readable text provides a comprehensive examination of the applied behavioral sciences, and focuses on fundamental ideas which have stood the test of years of application in academic, business, not-for-profit and administrative environments. Table of Contents 1. Management: An Applied Behavioral Sciences Approach.  2. Motivation and Behavior.  3. Motivating.  4. Leadership: An Initial Perspective.  5. Leadership: Situational Approaches.  6. Determining Effectiveness.  7. Diagnosing the Environment.  8. Situational Leadership.  9. Situational Leadership, Perception, and the Impact of Power. 10. Situational Leadership: Training and Development. 11. The Situational Leader and Constructive Discipline. 12. Building Effective Relationships. 13. Effective Communication. 14. Leading Effective Teams. 15. Implementing Situational Leadership: Managing People to Perform. 16. Implementing Situational Leadership: Building Commitments. 17. Planning and Implementing Change. 18. Leadership to Achieve Quality. 19. Leadership Strategies for Organizational Transformation. 20. The Organizational Cone. 21. Synthesizing Management Theory: Integrating Situational Leadership with the Classics. Appendix: Life Cycle Theory of Leadership Revisited. Recommended Supplementary Reading. Index.