Synopses & Reviews
KEY BENEFIT: Continuing the tradition of being a concept-oriented text grounded in recent research, the 11
th edition seeks to deepen the learning experience by incorporating a skills focus. Modern Management 11e is a traditionally organized principles of management text that integrates core concepts with skill training in how to apply those concepts.
KEY TOPICS: Management Skills: The Key to Organizational Success; Managing: History and Current Thinking; Modern Management Challenges such as Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics, Diversity, Managing in the Global Arena, and Entrepreneurship; Strategic Planning and Decision Making including Planning Tools; Fundamentals of Organizing, Responsibility, Authority, and Delegation; Managing Human Resources; Managing Organizational Change: Stress and Conflict; Fundamentals of Influencing and Communication including Leadership, Motivation, Groups and Teams, Corporate Culture, and Creativity and Innovation; Controlling, Information, and Technology; Production Management and Control
For business professionals looking for an up-to-date management text with a skills focus.
Table of Contents
Part One Introduction to Management
1 Modern Management: Skills for Success
2 Managing: History and Current Thinking
Part Two Modern Management Challenges
3 Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
4 Management and Diversity
5 Managing in the Global Arena
Part Three Planning
6 Principles of Planning
7 Making Decisions
8 Strategic Planning
9 Plans and Planning Tools
Part Four Organizing
10 Fundamentals of Organizing
11 Responsibility,Authority, and Delegation
12 Managing Human Resources
13 Organizational Change and Stress
Part Five Influencing
14 Influencing and Communication
15 Leadership
16 Motivation
17 Groups,Teams, and Corporate Culture
18 Understanding People:Attitudes, Perception, and Learning
19 Encouraging Creativity and Innovation
Part Six Controlling
20 Principles of Controlling
21 Production and Control
22 Information Technology