7 Vols. Contents: vol. 1. Introduction to Behavioural Sciences. xx, 392 p. ills. vol. 2. Human and Group Behaviour. xx, 393-768 p. ills. maps. vol. 3. Personality, Perception and Organisational Change. xx, 769-1092 p. ills. vol. 4. Organisational and Learning Theories. xx, 1093-1436 p. ills. vol. 5. Leadership, Values and Transactional Analysis. xx, 1437-1808 p. ills. vol. 6. Organisational Studies. xx, 1809-2208 p. ills. vol. 7. Conflict and Stress Management. xx, 2209-2560 p. ills. maps.

"Behavioural sciences encompass all the disciplines that explore the activities of and interactions among organisms in the natural world. It involves the systematic analysis and investigation of human and animal behaviour through controlled and naturalistic experimental observations and rigorous formulations. Examples of behavioural sciences include, psychology, cognitive science and anthropology. The term behavioural sciences is often confused with the term social sciences. Though these two broad areas are interrelated and study systematic processes of behaviour, they differ on their level of scientific analysis of various dimensions of behaviour. Behavioural sciences abstract empirical data to investigate the decision processes and communication strategies within and between organisms in a social system. This involves fields like psychology, social neuroscience and genetics among others. In contrast, social sciences provide a perceptive framework to study the processes of a social system through impacts of social organization on structural adjustment of the individual and of groups. They typically include fields like sociology, economics, history, counselling, public health, anthropology and political science. Behavioural sciences includes two broad categories: neural-decision sciences-and social-communication sciences, Decision sciences involves those disciplines primarily dealing with the decision processes and individual functioning used in the survival of organism in a social environment. These include anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, organization theory, psychobiology and social neuroscience. The 7 Volume `World Encyclopaedia of Behavioural Sciences' incorporating different aspects of human and group behaviour, personality, perception, organisational change, learning theories, leadership, values, conflict and stress management is being presented herewith for the students and teachers of behavioural sciences."