Management: A Global Perspective
McGraw-Hill Professional (Publisher)
10th Edition
Published on 16. December 1992
Book
Hardback
744 pages
978-0-07-069170-4 (ISBN)
Description
A revision of one of the classic management textbooks, the Tenth Edition features a new pronounced emphasis on global management. The research and examples have been thoroughly updated to reflect he most current developments in the field. MANAGEMENT continues to offer a five-functions approach, an integrative systems model, and a wealth of provocative cases, including a new part-ending case on the global automotive industry.
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Edition
10th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1315 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-069170-4 (9780070691704)
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Persons
Professor of Global Management and Behavioural Science at the University of San Francisco. He received his doctorate from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and an honorary doctorate from San Martin de Porres University in Lima, Peru. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California in Berkeley and Harvard Business School. Dr. Weihrich has taught at Arizona State University, at UCLA, and in various places such as Austria, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Thailand. He is also a faculty member and visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business in Zurich, Switzerland, at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, and at Peking University in Beijing.
The late Harold Koontz was an active executive from companies and government, university professor, President and Director of councils of companies, administrative consultant, comferencista onternacional groups of high administration and author of many books and articles. From 1950 he was professor of administration and since 1962, he served as such, but by Mead Johnson, at the University of California at Los Angeles: from 1979 to 1982 he served as chancellor of the World International Academy of Management.
The late Harold Koontz was an active executive from companies and government, university professor, President and Director of councils of companies, administrative consultant, comferencista onternacional groups of high administration and author of many books and articles. From 1950 he was professor of administration and since 1962, he served as such, but by Mead Johnson, at the University of California at Los Angeles: from 1979 to 1982 he served as chancellor of the World International Academy of Management.
Content
Part 1: The basis of global management theory and practice: management - science, theory and practice; the evolution of management thought; management and society; global and comparative management; part 1 closing - the basis of global management. Part 2: Planning: the nature and purpose of planning; objectives; strategies, policies and planning premises; decision making; part 2 closing - global planning. Part 3: Organizing: the nature of organizing and entrepreneuring; organizational structure - departmentation; line/staff authority and decentralization; effective organizing and organizational culture; part 3 closing - global organizing. Part 4: Staffing: human resource management and selection; performance appraisal and career strategy; managing change; part 4 closing - global staffing. Part 5: Leading: human factors and motivation; leadership; committees and group decision making; communication; part 5 closing - global leading. Part 6: Controlling: the system and process of controlling; control techniques and information technology; productivity and operations management; overall control - toward the future through preventative control; part 6 closing - global controlling.