Placing managerial behaviour in its organizational, educational, institutional and cultural context, this is a comparison of British and German managers' behaviour and views of their work, that seeks to explain the differences. The book is based on a two-year comparative study by British and German research teams. It challenges the universal law of management presented in so many management books by showing how differently German middle managers think and act. These differences are then unravelled and traced back to their various roots - ranging from the particular (the nature of the job, product or organization) to the general (the society's institutions and values).