Used by more than a million people throughout the world, this highly readable book provides a comprehensive examination of the applied behavioral sciences, and focuses on fundamental ideas which have stood the test of years of application in academic, business, not-for-profit and administrative environments. Complete coverage of motivation and behavior, situational leadership, building effective relationships, planning and implementing change, leadership strategies, the organizational cone and integrating situational leadership with the Classics. For individuals interested in expanding their knowledge of, and proficiency in leadership strategies.
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Ken Blanchard went on to become the management guru of the 90s, writing countless books that can be found right here on Amazon. However, this text book is where is all began. I call it a text book because it is. This text has been used and is still used in management schools around the nation. Written with Hersey and Johnson, this book is the definitive foundation text on how to manage organizational behavior as it pertains to managing people. Following are a couple key points:
1) Diagnosis: It is a manager's job to modify their management style to employee needs. Evaluting employee needs and corresponding management styles can be easily done using Situational Leadership tools (found in book). 2) Intervention: Performance can be managed using the fundamental postive reinforcement psychology. Further, by consciously indentifying needs, performance can be improved more rapidly. 3) Evaluation: If behavioral change does not occur, the individual may not be in the right role. This sounds dry and obvious by today's standards, but it wasn't when the first edition of this book was published (1980s). Further, most modern organiztional and management theory is based on this book. There is still gold to dig from its pages.
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I used this text in an 8-week 400 level leadership in education course. The overall concept of situational leadership was new to me in this class. I felt that the information in the book could have been greatly reduced and taught in just a few weeks. The same 4 ideas are repeated for different general situations. I found the text dull and uninteresting after the first couple chapters when no new ideas were presented.
The online website was required for my course. The teacher graded us on the quizzes and the case studies. You can take the quiz, see your results with the correct answers, then retake the quiz before sending it to your instructor for "grading". The case study entries have no formatting capabilities and you must use basic HTML if you want to make paragraphs. Also, after you enter the email addresses to send your results, you must check a box next to that name or it won't send. I didn't find the online material very engaging nor the quizzes challenging.
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Outstanding book on organizational leadership. Not simply focused on one type of leadership, but drew on several different models. Authors drew parallels and contrasted styles in an excellent manner. THE book on organizational leadership
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