The Study of Organizational Behavior is as vital today as it was in the founding of our nation. To understand the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within an organization, and then to be able to apply that knowledge to make organizations work more effectively, is the lifelong dream of everyone in management. Organizational behavior uses systematic study to improve predictions of behavior that would be made from intuition alone. Organizational behavior offers both challenges and opportunities for managers. It recognizes differences and helps managers to see the values and practices that may need to be changed when managing in different situations. “It can help improve quality and employee productivity by showing managers how to empower their people as well as how to design and implement change programs” (p. 55). It offers specific insights from which a manager can be better prepared to predicate organizational behaviors, trends, and future needs. If these types of predictions were easy or intuitive, we would not need OB. As one researcher implied in his comments on Organizational Behavior if it were easy it would be physics! Given the importance of Organizational Behavior on our past, present, and economic potential, it would apropos for each of us as managers to cry out ‘give me Organizational Behavior or give me death!’ While we might not be quite there yet in our un

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