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9780073223575

Essentials of Contemporary Management with Student DVD and OLC with Premium Content Card

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  • ISBN13:

    9780073223575

  • ISBN10:

    0073223573

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-01-05
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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List Price: $149.10

Summary

Jones and George are dedicated to the challenge of "Making It Real" for students. The authors present management in a way that makes its relevance obvious even to students who might lack exposure to a "real-life" management context. Their goal is to relate management theory to real life examples to drive home the message that management matters both because it determines how well organizations perform, and because managers and organizations affect the lives of people who work inside them and people outside the organization, such as customers, communities, and shareholders.Essentials of Management concisely surveys current management theories and research. Through a variety of real world examples from small, medium, and large companies the reader learns how those ideas are used by practicing managers. The organization of this text follows the mainstream functional approach of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling; but the content is flexible and encourages instructors to use the organization they are most comfortable with.One of the most popular features of the book has always been its focus on the "Manager as a Person," which discusses managers as real people with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and problems. In the 2nd Edition, the authors expand on this theme by discussing the importance of management competencies -the specific set of skills, abilities, and experiences that gives one manager the ability to perform at a higher level than another in a specific context. The themes of diversity, ethics, globalization, and information technology -all areas of importance that make up the workplace realities that today's student will encounter in the course of a career- have also been greatly expanded in the 2nd Edition in the text, photographs, "unboxed" stories, and the end-of-chapter material.

Table of Contents

PART 1 MANAGEMENT AND MANAGERS

Chapter 1 The Management Process Today

Appendix: History of Management

Chapter 2 Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: The Manager as a Person

PART 2 THE ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGEMENT

Chapter 3 Managing Ethics and Diversity

Chapter 4 Managing in a Global Environment

PART 3 PLANNING, DECISION MAKING, AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Chapter 5 Decision Making, Learning, Creativity, and Innovation

Chapter 6 Planning, Strategy, and Competitive Advantage

PART 4 ORGANIZING AND CHANGE

Chapter 7 Designing Organizational Structure

Chapter 8 Control, Change, and Entrepreneurship

PART 5 LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS

Chapter 9 Motivation

Chapter 10 Leaders and Leadership

Chapter 11 Effective Team Management

Chapter 12 Building and Managing Human Resources

PART 6 CONTROLLING ESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES AND PROCESSES

Chapter 13 Communication and Information Technology Management

Chapter 14 Operations Management: Managing Vital Operations and Processes

Appendix: Management Careers

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