ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes some of the more salient points of his career and will end with some observations concerning his beliefs about the future direction of the field of organizational behavior. He describes his parents and his childhood experiences. After leaving North American Aviation he was hired as a consultant to design and conduct a management training program for the top management team of the Research, Development, and Engineering Division at North American. As a result of this experience, plus a short period of rather intensive reading of the psychological literature, he was able to write a number of papers on management development efforts as they relate to organizational contexts. Stanford is the mecca of the situationalist perspective in organizational behavior and cognitive social psychology. Theories of cognitive processes, motivation, decision making, cognition, conflict, attitudes, learning, and the like are not really theories of organizational behavior phenomena but rather theories of the basic psychology of human beings.
