xxiv, 516 pages : 24 cm Instructor's Manual with tests Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-497) and index Management: an applied behavioral sciences approach -- Motivation and behavior -- Motivating -- Leadership: an initial perspective -- Leadership: situational approaches -- Determining effectiveness -- Diagnosing the environment -- Situational leadership -- Situational leadership, perception, and the impact of power -- Situational leadership: training and development -- The situational leader and constructive discipline -- Building effective relationships -- Effective communication -- Leading effective teams -- Implementing situational leadership: managing people to perform -- Implementing situational leadership: building commitments -- Planning and implementing change -- Leadership to achieve quality -- Leadership strategies for organizational transformation -- The organizational cone Synthesizing management theory: integrating situational leadership with the classics ; Situational leadership and Maslow's and Herzberg's theories of motivation, Situational leadership and McGregor's, Likert's and Argyris's theories, Situational leadership and Argyris's, Scheine's, McClelland's and McGregor's theories, Situational leadership and the leadership grid, situational leadership, the leadership grid, and Likert's causal, intervening, and output variables, Situation leadership and power bases, Situational leadership and parent affectiveness training (P.E.T.), Situational leadership and change, Reflections and conclusions -- Life cycle theory of leadership revisited Self-Renewing 2017