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Management Fundamentals
Concepts, Applications, and Skill Development
Seventh Edition
- Robert N. Lussier - Springfield College, USA
Other Titles in:
Business & Management
Business & Management
624 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Focusing on concepts, applications, and skill building, this best-selling text presents essential management themes and uses a variety of applications that challenge you to think critically and apply concepts to your own experiences. Throughout the book, proven skill-building exercises, behavioural models, self-assessments, and individual and group exercises help you to develop your personal and professional skills.
Key Features:
- A wide range of applications and company examples help you hone skills you can use in daily life and on the job
- Self-Assessments help you gain personal knowledge of management functions in the real world
- Work Applications help you apply the text concepts to your own experience (full-time, part-part, summer, volunteer work).
New to this edition:
- Current Trends and Issues sections discuss how AACSB competencies of globalization, diversity, technology, and ethics/CSR apply to the chapters
- A significantly revised and reorganized Chapter 10 includes provides expanded coverage of OB concepts such as personality, perception, attitudes, and job satisfaction
- Revised Applying the Concept questions (plus 70 completely new questions) ask you to determine the most appropriate concept to be used in a specific short example.
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Part I: The Global Management Environment
Chapter 1. Management and Its History
Chapter 2. The Environment: Culture, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
Chapter 3. Managing Diversity in a Global Environment
Part II: Planning
Chapter 4. Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making
Chapter 5. Strategic and Operations Planning
Chapter 6. Managing Change, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Part III: Organizing
Chapter 7. Organizing and Delegating Work
Chapter 8. Managing Team Work
Part IV: Leading
Chapter 10. Organizational Behavior: Power, Politics, Conflict, and Stress
Chapter 11: Motivating for High Performance
Chapter 12: Leading with Influence
Chapter 13: Communication and Information Technology
Part V: Controlling
Chapter 14: Managing Control Systems, Finances, and People
Chapter 15: Operations, Quality, and Productivity
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