Management makes us aware of our potentials, shows the ways toward better accomplishment, reduces obstacles, and causes us to achieve goals that we probably would not otherwise attain. Commonsense suggests that for our self-interest we know something about management. And certainly it is to be reckoned with in most actions we propose to affect others. The ad hoc and fragmented approaches, some of them working simultaneously at cross purposes, are not going to solve the problem of management and behavioural sciences. There is a pressing need for comprehensive book on management and behavioural science. Thus, the present work is an attempt to provide a comprehensive approach covering aspects of reading materials as well as some critical analysis. This encyclopaedia will prove a veritable mine of information for policy planners, administrators, management personnel besides the students, researchers and academics. Volume-wise organization of the work is: The Management; Organisational Development; Organisation and Behavioural Science; Human Resource Management; Management Training; and Management: Values and Issues.

The Study of Management; Nature and Importance of management; Scope of Management; management Philosophy, Values, and Contemporary Environment; Development of Management Thought; Comparative Management; The Management and managers; Evolution of Management Theory; Control: Its Nature and Process; Functions of Management and Coordination; Groups and Committees; International Management; Managerial Economics; Managerial Accounting; Behavioural Sciences in Management; Decision Making; Authority and Organizational Relationships; Managerial Motivation; Planning; Planning Management by Objectives (MBO) Vis-à-vis Planning; Organizing; Leading etc. are the major topics, elaborately discussed in the present volume. Students and teachers besides the management professionals will find this book most useful.

Organisation development (OD) has emerged both from the demands of a changing environment and from knowledge provided by the evolution of the applied behavioural science. The present book is a veritable mine of information on varied topics viz. Organisation Development; What is Organisation Development?; Nature of Organisation Development Characteristics and Foundations of the OD Process Operational Components; Research on Organisation Development; Organisation Change and Development; Organisation Development; System Change or Culture Change?; Organisation Development and Change in Organisational Performance; Impossibility of Using Random Strategies to Study the Organisation Development Process; Estimating the Success of OD Application is; Mapping the Territory; ethical Dilemmas in Various Stages of Organisational Development; Organisation Development and National Culture; Where's the Fit?; The Future of OD; Action Research and Organisation Development; managing Change in Engineering Firms; Select Dimensions; Forms of Organisation Structure and Organisation Theory etc. Students, researchers and academics besides the policy-planners and management personnel will find this book immensely useful and information.

Human Resource Management is the crucial yet important branch of management. The major themes, discussed in this book are: Basics of Human Resource Management; Organisational Outcomes of HRD Systems; Human Resources Development; Human Resources Planning; Planning for Human Resources Development; Research in Human Resources Development: Present Trends and Future Directions; Human Resources Development in Government Systems; Human Resources Development: Practices in Indian Industries-A Trend Report; Role of Training in Human Resources Development; HRD Climate in Organisations; Integrated Human Resources Development Systems; Human Factor in HRD; Special HRD for Women: An Opinion Study; HRD in the Small-scale Sector: Some Reflections; Emphathising with Rural India: An HRD Dimension; HRD for Quality of Rural Life; Quality of Life of the Rural Poor: A Poser for HRD; HRD for Total Quality; Quality and HRD-Two Sides of the Same Coin; The HRD Agenda in the Changing Environment; Professionalisation of HRD: New Challenges etc. Besides its academic value, this book will prove most useful for management personnel in the field.