Behaviour

For busy managers and management students this book provides
a guide through the apparent maze of theories on behaviour, The
manager's role is to direct human behaviour at work, and to
produce results he must be able to interpret the attitudes and
behaviour of his employees, peers and superiors.
The book therefore consists of a series of Incidents illustrating
individual, group and inter-group behaviour in a working environ-
ment as seen through the eyes of a busy manager, and is designed
to help the reader to test and enlarge upon his knowledge and to
develop his social skills. Each Incident is accompanied by a short
summary of the relevant theories of behaviour and a questionnaire
which gives the reader an opportunity to analyse himself as an
initial requirement before he can interpret behaviour. In Parts II
and III the questionnaires help the reader also to exercise his
. skills in observation and, increasingly, to apply what he has
learned.
This method, involving self-analysis, knowledge, observation and
practice, is the result of a well-tested and -tried programme at the
Portsmouth Management Center and will be an invaluable aid to
all who are concerned with the day-to-day management of
behaviour at work.