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Management, 12th Edition

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Table of Contents

Part One Management

1 Introducing Management 2

2 Management Learning Past to Present 32

3 Ethics and Social Responsibility 56

Part Two Environment

4 Environment, Innovation, and Sustainability 84

5 Global Management and Cultural Diversity 106

6 Entrepreneurship and New Ventures 134

Part Three Planning and Controlling

7 Information and Decision Making 160

8 Planning Processes and Techniques 192

9 Control Processes and Systems 216

10 Strategy and Strategic Management 238

Part Four Organizing

11 Organization Structures and Design 268

12 Organization Culture and Change 294

13 Human Resource Management 320

Part Five Leading

14 Leading and Leadership Development 350

15 Individual Behavior 376

16 Motivation Theory and Practice 402

17 Teams and Teamwork 430

18 Communication and Collaboration 458

Management Cases for Critical Thinking

Chapter Cases C-1

Self-Test Answers AN-1

Glossary G-1

Endnotes EN-1

Organizational Index OI-1

Name Index NI-1

Subject Index SI-1

New To This Edition

New coverage of leading topics in management, including sustainability and the environment, innovation, social networking, ethical decision making and leadership.
New Facts to Consider feature provides a brief summary of interesting research data on management topics—like corruption, office romances and job satisfaction—that stimulate critical inquiry and offer fuel for class discussions and debates.
New Career Situations encourage students to apply chapter content to common early-career scenarios.
New Management Cases for Critical Thinking present contemporary and timely organizations and managers to promote analysis, discussion, problem solving, and further research.

Hallmark Features

Critical Thinking and Active Learning: From Ethics on the Line, Facts for Analysis to Management Cases for Critical Thinking, special chapter features engage students in timely examples, current events, and applications of chapter material.
Integrated learning model: helps students read and study for exams, apply concepts and theories and discover how management issues to current events that affect everyday living.
Self Reflection: A variety of opportunities for self-reflection exist in the text, especially with Learning About Yourself, the Management Skills and Competencies, Further Reflection questions, Self-Assessments, Team Exercises and Career Situations to apply chapter content to common early-career situations, and a Case Study for analysis to further deepen self awareness.
Pedagogical foundations based on constructive balances of pedagogy:
o Balance of research insights with formative education.
o Balance of management theory with management practice.
o Balance of present understandings with future possibilities.
o Balance of what "can" be done with what is, purely and simply, the "right" thing to do.