The primary purpose of this book is to help the reader achieve some understanding of the behavior of individuals and groups in goal-seeking organizations. It emphasizes empirically-derived knowledge about behavior and relates this knowledge to the practical problems of the management of human effort. The selections will interest anyone involved with management and administration, organizational behavior, personnel and industrial relations, industrial-social psychology, or micro.organization theory. The editors take selections from three perspectives of theory, methodology and "real world" applications