Management (Hardcover, 5th Revised edition)

Taking a functional approach, this text introduces students to the process of management. This edition emphasizes one of the major issues in management today: change. Various manifestations of change - including but not limited to downsizing, restructuring, diversity, and globalization - are highlighted in specific chapters and carefully woven throughout the text. Adapting to the trend of combining principles of management and organizational behaviour courses, several areas of this edition have been revised or expanded. Chapters discuss areas such as elements of individual behaviour in organizations, interpersonal relations, and managing group and team processes. Also featured is a discussion of the environment of management. The consideration of environmental factors, ranging from ethics to organization design to the Internet, is essential to effective management. To emphasize the importance of understanding this environmental context, each chapter now features a boxed insert called "Environment of Management". The changing business environment is a central theme to this edition. The inserts focus on how companies have dealt with new circumstances and ways of managing organizations in an increasingly volatile environment. Among the topics covered are technology, changing sociocultural standards, economic forces, and globalization.