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Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 017025979X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0170259798
- Author: SAMSON/DAFT
Dynamic, challenging and exciting: show your students what managers really do! Management as a profession is dynamic, challenging and exciting for those who want to excel at it. Each day brings new and often unanticipated challenges. This new edition of Danny Samson’s bestseller includes most recent management thinking and research, as well as the contemporary application of management ideas in organisations. The challenges of sustainable development are integrated into every chapter of this book. The combination of established scholarship, new ideas and real-life applications gives students a taste for the adventure inherent in the dynamic field of management. This fifth edition includes new emphases on entrepreneurship and innovation and integrates coverage of social media and new technology throughout. The premium learning technology package includes Aplia online learning, CourseMate Premium Website, and Search me! management.
Table contents:
Chapter 1 The contemporary workplace
Introduction 2
1.1 Working in today’s economy 3
1.2 Organisations in today’s workplace 9
1.3 Managers in today’s workplace 12
1.4 The management process 23
1.5 Managerial learning 25
Summary 30
Key terms 31
Applied activities 32
Endnotes 32
Acknowledgements 34
Chapter 2 Historical foundations of management 35
Introduction 37
2.1 Classical approaches to management 37
2.2 Behavioural approaches to management 42
2.3 Quantitative approaches to management 45
2.4 Modern approaches to management 46
2.5 Continuing management themes 48
Summary 54
Key terms 54
Applied activities 55
Endnotes 55
Acknowledgements 57
Chapter 3 Environment and diversity 58
Introduction 60
3.1 Environment and competitive advantage 60
3.2 Internal environment and organisational culture 65
3.3 Customer-driven organisations 68
3.4 Quality-driven organisations 70
3.5 Diversity and multicultural organisations 72
Summary 80
Key terms 81
Applied activities 81
Endnotes 82
Acknowledgements 85
Chapter 4 International dimensions of management 86
Introduction 87
4.1 International management and globalisation 88
4.2 International business challenges 94
4.3 Multinational corporations 98
4.4 Culture and global diversity 100
4.5 Management across cultures 105
Summary 110
Key terms 110
Applied activities 111
Endnotes 112
Acknowledgements 114
Chapter 5 Ethical behaviour and social responsibility 115
Introduction 116
5.1 What is ethical behaviour? 117
5.2 Ethics in the workplace 121
5.3 Maintaining high ethical standards 124
5.4 Social responsibility 126
5.5 Organisations and society 131
Summary 133
Key terms 133
Applied activities 134
Endnotes 134
Acknowledgements 137
Chapter 6 Sustainability 138
Introduction 139
6.1 What is sustainability? 140
6.2 International sustainability guidelines for business 144
6.3 Sustainability and organisations 148
6.4 Organisational change: developing the sustainable firm 151
6.5 Current trends in business sustainability 152
Summary 155
Key terms 155
Applied activities 156
Endnotes 156
Acknowledgements 158
Chapter 7 Information and decision making 159
Introduction 161
7.1 Information technology and the new workplace 162
7.2 Information and information systems 165
7.3 Information and decision making 171
7.4 The decision-making process 173
7.5 Knowledge management and organisational learning 178
Summary 180
Key terms 180
Applied activities 181
Endnotes 182
Acknowledgements 183
Chapter 8 Planning 184
Introduction 186
8.1 How and why managers plan 187
8.2 Types of plans used by managers 191
8.3 Planning tools, techniques and processes 194
Summary 202
Key terms 202
Applied activities 203
Endnotes 203
Acknowledgements 204
Chapter 9 Strategic management 205
Introduction 206
9.1 Sustainable strategic competitiveness 207
9.2 The strategic management process 210
9.3 Strategies used by organisations 216
9.4 Strategy formulation 220
9.5 Strategy implementation 226
Summary 229
Key terms 230
Applied activities 230
Endnotes 231
Acknowledgements 233
Chapter 10 Organising 234
Introduction 236
10.1 Organising as a management function 236
10.2 Traditional organisation structures 238
10.3 Essentials of organisational design 243
10.4 Contingencies in organisational Environment 247
10.5 Developments in organisation Team structures 251
10.6 Subsystems design and integration 254
10.7 Organising trends 257
Summary 260
Key terms 261
Applied activities 262
Endnotes 262
Acknowledgements 264
Chapter 11 Controlling 265
Introduction 266
11.1 Organisational control 267
11.2 Types of controls 270
11.3 Organisational control systems 273
Summary 282
Key terms 282
Applied activities 283
Endnotes 283
Acknowledgements 284
Chapter 12 Human resource management 285
Chapter 14 Communication and interpersonal skills 345
Chapter 15 Motivation and rewards 373
Chapter 16 Individuals, job design and stress 400
Chapter 17 Teams and teamwork 429
Chapter 18 Leading and managing change 455
Chapter 19 Entrepreneurship and new ventures 491
Chapter 20 Operations and services management 512
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