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What is included with this book?
Specific Changes to Chapters | |
Introduction to Organisations and Management | |
Additional text on viewing the manager's job from the perspective of managing systems as well as taking a contingency view on management in order to manage in different and changing situations | |
Both these perspectives have been introduced in the first Chapter to reflect today's complexities involved in managing | |
The Evolution of Management | |
In addition to covering the development of management throughout the 20th century, Chapter 2 now contains a discussion about current trends and issues in management | |
These are globalisation, workforce diversity, information technology, continually learning and adaptive organisations, TQM, dismantling the hierarchy and ethics and trust | |
Organisational Culture and Environment: The Constraints | |
Organisational culture is beefed up with a new expanded section | |
The Section on the business environment has also been updated to reflect some of the current issues that influence organisational life such as the economic situation in South-east Asia as well as global and technological conditions | |
Managing in a Global Environment | |
Chapter 4 has been reorganised to provide a more focused and tighter discussion of globalisation of business and its influence on management practice | |
Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics | |
Chapter 5 now contains material on values-based management and the greening of management | |
Decision-making | |
Foundations of Planning | |
Strategic Management and | |
Planning Tools and techniques | |
Chapters 6,7,8 and 9 have undergone only minor rewriting | |
The examples are either new or updated from a diverse set of organisations | |
The selection is a balance of manufacturing and service organisations, large and small businesses, profit and not-for-profit organisations as well as including organisations from a variety of different global locations | |
Organisational Structure and Design | |
Chapter 10 comprises old Chapter 10 and 11. The material is now tighter and more focused | |
New material in organisational design such as the boundary-less organisation and the learning organisation as well as how modern communication technologies affect organisational design | |
Human Resource Management | |
New material on skill-based pay and broadbanding compensation, family-friendly work arrangements and the importance of dealing with occupational health and safety | |
Managing Change and Innovation | |
New material on re-engineering and managing downsized workplaces has been added | |
Foundations of Behaviour | |
Understanding Groups and Teams | |
These chapters have undergone minor change to the content | |
New examples of organisations and managers have been included | |
Motivating Employees | |
Discussion on designing motivating jobs has been moved from Chapter 11 in the old edition | |
New material on pay-for-performance, open-book management, employee share ownership plans, and motivating the 'new workforce' | |
Leadership | |
New material of visionary leadership, team leadership and creating a culture of trust | |
Communication and Interpersonal skills | |
Changes to the examples and boxes | |
Foundations of Control | |
Ethical issues of control such as employee workplace privacy, computer monitoring and off-the-job behaviour | |
Operations Management | |
Rewritten to include latest changes | |
New topics on customer-driven operations, reengineering work processes, project management, technology and product development, ISO 9000, and outsourcing | |
Management Information Systems: Control Tools and Techniques | |
This Chapter has been considerably rewritten to reflect how modern management information systems are changing the manager's job | |
Career Planning | |
Some changes based on latest trends, downsizing, delayering, restructuring and reengineering | |
Supplements | |
Instructor's Resource CD: This CD contains the Instructor's Manual and PowerPoint slides | |
Instructor's Manual contains expanded outlines of each Chapter and thorough teaching notes for all in-text activities along with key terms and answers for discussion questions | |
PowerPoint slides: Over 250 full colour slides, with accompanying Teachers notes, have been developed to accompany the text | |
Test Item File: A comprehensive test bank featuring 2000 multiple choice, true/false and essay type questions | |
The program allows lecturers to select, edit and create their own texts | |
Tests can be delivered in paper format or on-line | |
Australian Companion Website: This content rich website provides students and academics with updated current events articles on management and study guide material for students to test their understanding. www.prenhall.com/robbins_au | |
Student learning guide and workbook: This saleable supplement is designed to be used in conjunction with the text to support and reinforce the concepts, models and theories of OB provided within the text | |
For study guide details refer to page 108 | |
CourseCompass | |
Blackboard | |
WebCT | |
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