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Management
with OneKey
8th Edition
Stephen Robbins, Mary Coulter
0-13-127272-1
Hardback
640 pages
2004
Brief Description
For courses in Management at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
- This is not a text that just describes management theories. In addition to including explanatory examples, it provides every day examples and experiences from real managers today.
- Management is a dynamic discipline and this textbook reflects those changes to help prepare students to manage under changing conditions. This revised and up-dated edition of this successful text provides the best possible understanding of what it means to be a manager confronting these changes.
- Management students need to learn how to do management tasks as well as learn about them. The text covers five key topics; globalization, ethics, diversity, customer service and innovation, which have been integrated into the Robbins Online Learning system (R.O.L.L.S).
Features
- Each chapter is includes colour-coded callout links to R.O.L.L.S (www.prenhall.com/Robbins), which now features
- Self-Assessment Library (S.A.L)
- Practical Interactive Skills Modules (PRISM)
- Passport: Managing in a Global Environment
- You're the Manager: Putting Ethics into Action
- You're the Manager: Diversity in Action
- Questions & Answers
New to this Edition
- Robbins On-Line Learning System R.O.L.L.S (www.prenhall.com/Robbins), features:
- Self-Assessment Library (S.A.L)
- Practical Interactive Skills Modules (PRISM)
- Passport: Managing in a Global Environment (video)
- You're the Manager: Putting Ethics into Action
- You're the Manager: Diversity in Action
- Questions & Answers
- Instructor's Resource CD-Rom; includes Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides and Test Item File
- 'Manager's Dilemma and Managers Respond' - Each chapter opens with a dilemma that a real-life manager is facing.
- 'Managers Speak Out' - Boxed text in which real managers are interviewed, and answer a broad range of questions.
- Skills Modules - Management students need to learn how to do management tasks as well as to learn about management.
- Managing Entrepeneurial Ventures - Effective Management (These sections are easily located on tinted pages)
Contents
PREFACE
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to Management and Organizations
2. Management Yesterday and Today
II. DEFINING THE MANAGER’S TERRAIN
3. Organizational Culture and the Environment: The Constraints
4. Managing in a Global Environment
5. Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics
III. PLANNING
6. Decision-Making: The Essence of the Manager’s Job
7. Foundations of Planning
8. Strategic Management
9. Planning Tools and Techniques
IV. ORGANIZING
10. Organizational Structure and Design
11. Communication and Information Technology
12. Human Resource Management
13. Managing Change and Innovation
V. LEADING
14. Foundation of Behavior
15. Understanding Groups and Teams
16. Motivating Employees
17. Leadership
VI. CONTROLLING
18. Foundations of Control
19. Operations and Value Chain Management
Skill-Building Modules
Notes
Photo Credits
Name Index
Organization Index
Index
Companion Website:
http://www.prenhall.com/Robbins
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