A Primer on Organizational Behavior began its life as a series of chapter drafts which our students read during the first few weeks of the course. This initial reading was supplemented by brief lectures, discussions, experiential exercises, case analyses, research and applications oriented ar-ticles, and so forth. We found that not only did our students seem to benefit from this approach, but they preferred a variety of materials for the course instead of one text that attempted to do everything. Accordingly, we set about the task of writing this primer so that it could be used in conjunction with a reader, sets of journal articles, cases, exercises, experiential texts, or fieldwork. Additionally, we found that students who came into our Human Resource Management, Industrial Psychology, and Organization Development courses without the usual background in organizational behavior did well after reading the manuscript.