The overall structure of this edition is the same as in the past. The book moves from the smaller to the larger. We start with the individual as the focal unit, move to two-person relationships, and onward to issues of leadership, power, small groups, and whole organizations.This edition focuses more than ever on the managing process—on whole organizations and on managing relationships with other organizations. To underline that emphasis, we have included a new section called 'The Manager's Job.' That section deals with what managers do, how they do it, why they do it, and how they should do it.

Harold J. Leavitt is Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology in the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is the author of Corporate Pathfinders and the co-editor of Reading in Managerial Psychology, published by the University of Chicago Press.

 

Homa Bahrami is lecturer in organizational behavior in the School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkely, and research associate in  the Graduate School of Buisness, Stanford University.