Essentials of Contemporary Management

Name: Essentials of Contemporary Management
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ISBN: 9780078029349

ISBN-10: 0078029341

ISBN-13: 9780078029349

Edition: 5th 2013

Authors: Gareth Jones, Jennifer George

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Jones/George, Essentials of Contemporary Management is the concise edition of the market bestselling textbook by the same author team. Jones and George are dedicated to the challenge of Making It Real for students. The authors present management in a way that makes its relevance obvious even to students who might lack exposure to a real-life management context. This is accomplished thru a diverse set of examples, and the unique, and most popular feature of the text, theManager as a PersonChapter 2. This chapter discusses managers as real people with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and problems and this theme is carried thru the remaining chapters. This text…

Book details

List price: $150.99
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 3/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Jennifer George is a well-published professor as is now the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management in the Jesse H. Jones GraduateSchool of Business at Rice University. She is co-author of the aforementioned organizational behavior book. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her MBA & PhD from New York University.




Management and Managers



The management Process Today



History of Management Throughout



values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: The Manager as a Person



The Environment of Management



Managing Ethics and Diversity



Managing the Global Environment



Planning, Decision Making, and Competitive Advantage



Decision Making, Learning, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship



Planning, Strategy, and Competitive Advantage



Organizing and Change



Designing Organizational Structure



Control, Change and Entrepreneurship



Leading Individuals and Groups



Motivation



Leaders and Leadership



Effective Team Management



Building and Managing Human Resources



Controlling Essential Activities and Processes



Communication and Information Technology Management



Operations Management: Managing Vital Operations and Processes



Career Development


Glossary


Notes


Photo Credits


Name Index Subject Index


Company Index