ABSTRACT
A handbook of even the grandest ambitions cannot encompass "all of it," and so it is with the present example of the genre, which deals with organizational behavior, or OB. The implication is direct: selective criteria have to occupy a prominent place in the design of such a volume. Some topics have to receive emphasis; and, perforce, other topics-usually many other reasonable topics-have to be neglected. This introduction provides two perspectives on this direct implication.
