Management

ISBN-13: 9781473770799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 640 str.

Richard Daft (Vanderbilt University);Alan Benson (University of Exeter);Brian Henry (INSEAD)

Opis

The second EMEA edition of Richard L. Daft's popular textbook, Management, has been fully updated to ensure that new European, Middle East and African content provides students with a practical approach to key concepts and theories with regional examples to enrich their learning. A wide range of inspiring real-world features are revealed as the student is guided through and prepared for the various challenges facing a modern manager. This title is available with MindTap, a flexible online learning solution that you can customize to suit your specific course needs, and which provides students with all the tools they need to succeed including an interactive eReader and a wide range of assignments, practice questions, scenarios, and cases to further entrench key concepts, boost confidence, develop critical thinking skills and prepare them for the workplace.

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction to Management1Introduction to management2The evolution of management thinkingPart 1 Integrative case: James Dyson and the electric vehicle revolutionPart 2 Managing External and Internal Environment3The organization and corporate culture4The dynamics of alternative organizational forms5Managing in a global environment6Managing ethics and social corporate governancePart 2 Integrative case: Rehumanizing Poult biscuits: empowering factory workersPart 3 Planning7Managerial planning and goal setting8Strategy formulation and execution9Managerial decision-makingPart 3 Integrative case: The European CommissionPart 4 Organizing10Managing small business start-ups11Managing change and innovation12Managing corporate diversityPart 4 Integrative case: Herm sPart 5 Leading13Leadership14Managing human resources15Managing communication16Leading teamsPart 5 Integrative case: Unjani ClinicsPart 6 Controlling 17Managing quality and performance

O autorze

Brian Henry is a full-time Research Fellow at INSEAD and an adjunct professor at a number of private business schools in France, such as ISCOM, ISG and NEOMA. As a Research Fellow, he writes business cases about family-run firms. A versatile instructor, Dr Henry teaches International Business, Supply Chain Management, Marketing Management and European Institutional History. Before becoming a full-time academic, Dr Henry worked as a senior communications and marketing specialist for the financial service industry in New York. Previously, he was a financial journalist for a weekly trade publication in New York and London covering the petrochemical industry. Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor of Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Daft specializes in the study of organization theory and leadership and is a fellow of the Academy of Management. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management Education. He has been the associate editor-in-chief of Organization Science and served for three years as associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Dr. Daft has authored or co-authored 14 books and written dozens of scholarly articles, papers and chapters in academic books. A noted expert in organization behavior and organization design, Dr. Daft is one of today's most highly cited academics in the fields of economics and business. Alan Benson was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Exeter Business School, where he held module leader responsibilities for Master s-level modules, such as Managing in a Multinational Context and Strategy , as well as Business Projects on the undergraduate degree programmes. He has worked in UK academia for more than 25 years, taught MBA-level modules in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the UK, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia, and supervised numerous Master s-level dissertations and student internship project reports. Before becoming a full-time academic, Dr Benson worked as a management consultant and gained senior management experience in several industrial sectors, including a number of blue-chip engineering and manufacturing companies.