Hersey, Paul, Blanchard, Kenneth H., & Johnson, Dewey E. Management of Organizational Behavior (9th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/ Prentice Hall. 2008. 368 pp. ISBN: 978-0-13-144139-2. $132.

In Management of Organizational Behavior (9th ed.), Hersey, Blanchard, and Johnson present a research-based approach to understanding the challenges facing managers as they build highly competitive global organizations. To the authors, management is about the interaction of people, resources, and processes to improve performance. Therefore, the intent is to bring the behavioral sciences into play by integrating management theory with human behavior theory. The premise of the ...