Synopses & Reviews
This book provides a clear, concise, current, and comprehensive approach to the basic skills of business management. It presents traditional concepts, important contemporary issues, and timeless insights into applying management know-how--all toward the goal of achieving organizational success. Management: Adding Digital Focus. Managing: History and Current Thinking. Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics. Management and Diversity. Meeting the Global Challenge. Principles of Planning. Making Decisions. Strategic Planning. Plans and Planning Tools. Fundamentals of Organizing. Responsibility, Authority, and Delegation. Managing Human Resources. Organizational Change and Stress. Fundamentals of Influencing and Communication. Leadership. Motivation. Groups, Teams, and Corporate Culture. Understanding People: Attitudes, Perception, and Learning. Principles of Controlling. Production Management and Control. Information and the Internet. Competitiveness: Quality and Innovation Management's Digital Dimension. For managers at all levels.
Synopsis
This book provides a comprehensive, flexible approach to the basic skills of business management with an emphasis on skills and applications. It presents traditional concepts, important contemporary issues, and timeless insights into applying management know-how–all toward the goal of achieving organizational success. Built around the concept of “Core Plus” — a core of chapters covered in most courses, surrounded by a rich selection of optional chapters — enabling flexibility in the way the text is used. Management History, Operations Management, Information Technology in Management, and Creativity and Innovation in Management. For managers at all levels.
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