For courses in management.
Concepts and skills for the successful manager
Modern Management: Concepts and Skills takes a unique approach that helps students develop a specific management skill in each chapter. Organised around the functions of planning, organising, influencing, and controlling, the content specifically focuses on how students can be more strategic and more creative, work as team members, become successful leaders, and more. The chapters are designed to build these skills, and others, to fulfil the core objective: To help students both obtain employment and flourish in the workplace. The 15th Edition contains new case studies and examples to reflect the most recent research and developments in this field, as well as updated information.
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Höhe: 274 mm
Breite: 213 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-292-26519-3 (9781292265193)
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PART I: INTRODUCTION TO MODERN MANAGEMENT
1. Introducing Modern Management: Concepts and Skills
2. Management and Entrepreneurship: Handling Start-Ups and New Ventures
PART II: MODERN MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES?
3. Society, Ethics and Sustainability
4. Management and Diversity
5. Managing in the Global Arena
6. Creativity and Innovation
PART III: PLANNING
7. Plans and Planning Tools
8. Making Decisions
9. Strategic Planning: Strategies, Tactics, and Competitive Dynamics
PART IV: ORGANIZING
10. Fundamentals of Organizing
11. Responsibility, Authority, and Delegation
12. Human Resource Management
13. Changing Organizations: Stress, Conflict, and Virtuality
PART V: INFLUENCING
14. Influencing and Communication
15. Leadership?
16. Motivation
17. Groups and Teams
18. Building Organization Culture
PART VI: CONTROLLING
19. Controlling, Information, and Technology
20. Production and Control
Appendix: Managing: History and Current Thinking
