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Learn MANAGEMENT YOUR Way with MGMT! Extensively updated to reflect the latest research in the field, MGMT makes concepts and theories accessible and relevant with timely, interesting examples of their applications at real businesses. Now available with MindTap, the digital learning solution designed to help you think and act like a manager. MGMT's easy-reference, textbook presents course content through visually engaging chapters as well as Chapter Review Cards that consolidate the best review material into a ready-made study tool. With the textbook or on its own, MindTap for MGMT allows you to learn on your terms. Read or listen to textbook and study with the aid of instructor notifications, flashcards and practice quizzes. Track your scores and stay motivated toward your goals. Whether you have more work to do or are ahead of the curve, you'll know where you need to focus your efforts.
List of contents
Part I: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT.
1. Management.
2. The History of Management.
3. Organizational Environments and Cultures.
4. Ethics and Social Responsibility.
Part II: PLANNING.
5. Planning and Decision Making.
6. Organizational Strategy.
7. Innovation and Change.
8. Global Management.
Part III: ORGANIZING.
9. Designing Adaptive Organizations.
10. Managing Teams.
11. Managing Human Resource Systems.
12. Managing Individuals and a Diverse Work Force.
Part IV: LEADING.
13. Motivation.
14. Leadership.
15. Managing Communication.
Part V: CONTROLLING.
16. Control.
17. Managing Information.
18. Managing Service and Manufacturing Operations.
Endnotes.
Index.
Student/Instructor Review Cards.
About the author
Dr. Chuck Williams began working at the age of 8, babysitting, mowing people’s lawns, raking leaves, shoveling the snow from their driveways, delivering newspapers (at the age of 12 he won an all-expense paid trip to New York City by winning a contest for signing up the most new newspaper subscribers in his region), working as a stock boy at a pharmacy and a shoe store, sandblasting furnaces at a steel company, repairing roads for the highway department, detailing and washing cars at a Chevy dealership and working at General Motors. Those varied work experiences, combined with dinnertime discussions growing up when his mother discussed the management problems and eventual demise of the Fortune 500 Company she worked for, led to his interest in Management and the difference, good and bad, it could make in people’s lives. Dr. Chuck Williams has served as Dean and Professor of Management at the Andre Lacy School of College of Business at Butler University, Dean and Professor of Management at the Eberhardt School of Business at the University of the Pacific, Associate Dean, Chair of Management and Associate Professor of Management at the M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, Assistant Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Williams received his BA in psychology from Valparaiso University. He specialized in organizational behavior, human resources and strategic management while earning his MBA and PhD in Business Administration from Michigan State University. His research interests include employee recruitment and turnover, performance appraisal and employee training and goal setting. Dr. Williams has published research in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management Review, Personnel Psychology and the Organizational Research Methods Journal. He was a member of the Journal of Management’s editorial board and served as a reviewer for numerous other academic journals.?
Summary
Learn MANAGEMENT YOUR Way with MGMT! Extensively updated to reflect the latest research in the field, MGMT makes concepts and theories accessible and relevant with timely, interesting examples of their applications at real businesses. Now available with MindTap, the digital learning solution designed to help you think and act like a manager. MGMT’s easy-reference, textbook presents course content through visually engaging chapters as well as Chapter Review Cards that consolidate the best review material into a ready-made study tool. With the textbook or on its own, MindTap for MGMT allows you to learn on your terms. Read or listen to textbook and study with the aid of instructor notifications, flashcards and practice quizzes. Track your scores and stay motivated toward your goals. Whether you have more work to do or are ahead of the curve, you’ll know where you need to focus your efforts.
