This book presents the situational leader model, which provides a system for managing people that is both conceptual and practical. It has a scope that is broad enough to permit its application to a wide range of situations, and promotes precise language in which managers could both understand and act upon the problems they experience in managing people.

About The Author

Paul Hersey (born in 1931) is a behavioral scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for conceiving Situational Leadership. Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard published Management of Organization Behavior- now in its ninth edition. Hersey teaches about training and development in leadership, management, and selling. In addition to his teaching, he is a consultant, on a continuing basis, to industrial, government, and military organizations. Hersey is presently a Distinguished Professor of Leadership Studies at Nova Southeastern University. He is a former faculty member of Northern Illinois University, California State University, Chico, University of Arkansas, and Ohio University. He also served in the roles of Chairman of the Department of Management and Dean of the School of Business. Hersey has also served as Project Director for the Industrial Relations Center of the University of Chicago, Training Director at Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company, and Department Head at Sandia Corporation. Hersey's works include Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources, Organizational Change through Effective Leadership and Selling: A Behavioral Science Approach. His most recent books include The Situational Leader, Situational Selling, Situational Service: Customer Care for the Practitioner, and Situational Parenting.