Management : A Practical Introduction with Online Learning Center with Premium Content Card

by Kinicki, Angelo

• ISBN13: 9780073138961
• ISBN10: 0073138967
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780072555462, 9780072920376
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-18
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Summary

Blending scholarship and imaginative writing, ASU business professor Kinicki (of Kreitner/Kinicki Organizational Behavior 5e) and writer Williams (of Williams/Sawyer Using Information Technology 5e) have created a highly readable introductory management text in an exciting student-friendly layout certain to be well received by today's visually oriented students. The authors have structured Management as a series of two-page spreads (i.e., left and right facing pages) of 2 - 6 pages per section, to optimize learning by presenting information in easily mastered "bite-size" chunks. Although the text is organized in a unique manner, the coverage of basic management concepts and principles is still prevalent. And besides presenting fundamental concepts of management, the book emphasizes practical advice throughout, expressed in the features "The Manager's Toolbox," "Practical Action" boxes, real-life "Example" boxes, "Management in Action" and "Ethical Dilemma" cases, and the Web-based "Taking Something Practical Away from this Chapter."

Table of Contents

PART 1. INTRODUCTION

1. The Exceptional Manager: What You Do, How You Do It

2. Management Theory: Essential Background for the Successful Manager

PART 2. THE ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGEMENT

3. The Managers Changing Work Environment & Responsibilities

4. Global Management: Managing Across Borders

PART 3. PLANNING

5. Planning: The Foundation of Successful Management

6. Strategic Management: How Star Managers Realize a Grand Design

7. Individual & Group Decision Making: How Managers Make Things Happen

PART 4. ORGANIZING

8. Organizational Culture, Structure, & Design: Building Blocks of the Organization

9. Human Resource Management: Getting the Right People for Managerial Success

10. Organizational Change & Innovation: Life-Long Challenges for the Exceptional Manager

PART 5. LEADING

11. Managing Individual Differences & Behavior

12. Motivating Employees: Achieving Superior Performance in the Workplace

13. Groups & Teams: From Conflict to Cooperation

14. Power, Influence, & Leadership: From Becoming a Manager to Becoming a Leader

15. Interpersonal & Organizational Communication

PART 6. CONTROL

16. Control: Techniques for Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness

Appendix: The Project Planners Toolkit: Flowcharts & Gantt Charts