Management

Description

Brief Contents

For Principles of Management courses.

The basics of management–and beyond.

Students often assume the role of a manager is no different than that of a traditional “boss”–someone who hires/fires, doles out raises/promotions, and tells employees what to do. Management takes students beyond these preconceived notions by exposing them to the full spectrum of management practices and concepts that will help them succeed as managers in today’s business world.

Go Beyond the Basics:

Beyond the Ordinary. Management helps your students see beyond the basics of a manager’s role through detailed coverage and exercises that expose the dynamic nature of modern management.

Beyond Theory. While Management is careful to ground students in the relevant theories, it also gives students numerous opportunities to apply their learning to real-world situations.

Beyond Your Expectations. The authors’ goal for this text was to make it more comprehensive, useful, and flexible than any other on the market, with hundreds of contemporary examples to illustrate key points.

Defined Learning Goals: Learning Objective Check-Ins (LOC-Ins). These scenario-based multiple choice questions appear within each chapter and directly correspond to a Learning Objective specified at the chapter’s opening. Each question is designed to assess the application of the Learning Objective. Answers are provided in the Instructor’s Manual.

Highlight the Manager’s Perspective:

Manager’s Notebook. These features supplement chapter content with a practicing manager’s perspective. Manager’s Notebooks provide valuable insider insight for dealing with common situations. Ideal for sparking classroom discussions.

Management Close-Ups. This feature helps students get an up-close look at the issues real managers deal with. The Ethics, Customer Focus, and Dealing with Change subtitles in these boxes highlight aspects of management that are particularly important today:

• Ethics. Nearly every chapter of this text includes special illustrations of how ethics and trust play an important role in all aspects of business.
• Customer Focus. The Customer Focus boxes offer real-world examples of how relationships play a crucial role in the success of organizations.
• Dealing with Change. The successful manager needs to be able to anticipate and adapt to change, and these boxes illustrate how a particular change can impact the successful functioning of a firm.

OTHER POINTS OF DISTINCTION

Offer a Snapshot of Career Responsibilities: Focusing on the Future. Appearing at the end of the chapter but before the Summary, Focusing on the Future boxes give students a glimpse into how they will use the skills they’re learning about in their future careers. These “day in the life” snapshots from five types of managers–accounting/finance, operations/general, human resources, marketing/communications, and entrepreneurs–show students how the theories discussed in the text are used to solve real-world problems.

Practice and refine skills:

Manager’s Check-Up. These exercises provide students with fun and interesting ways to practice and refine the skills crucial to workplace effectiveness (found in end-of-chapter material). 

Collaborative Learning Case/Exercise. Each chapter includes an in-class exercise for students to complete in teams. Teams read the case and then recommend a course of action for resolving the issue or problem presented in the exercise.

Management Mini-Case. Each chapter has two Management Mini-Cases that provide real-life examples to stimulate class discussion.

For Principles of Management courses.

The basics of management—and beyond.

Students often assume the role of a manager is no different than that of a traditional “boss”—someone who hires/fires, doles out raises/promotions, and tells employees what to do. Management takes students beyond these preconceived notions by exposing them to the full spectrum of management practices and concepts that will help them succeed as managers in today’s business world.

The basics of management—and beyond.

It’s often assumed that the role of a manager is no different than that of a traditional “boss”—someone who hires/fires, doles out raises/promotions, and tells employees what to do. Management goes beyond these preconceived notions by delving into the full spectrum of management practices and concepts that will help you succeed as a manager in today’s business world.