Key Features of Management

Creative upgrades to classic textbook features ensure that instructors can comfortably adopt this new textbook without changing how they teach the course.

Storytelling Narrative

  • Management concepts are presented in a style that ignites the student imagination, sparks discussion and aids instructors in showing how and why concepts are applied in real world situations.
  • Material comes alive with stories of epic failures, risings and fallings, overnight successes, dilemmas, and plain, hardworking people that find meaningful ways to make a difference.
  • Extended case studies enable students to engage with complexities of the real world.
  • Each of the four management functions is illustrated through the Management Stories feature that spans multiple chapters and are meaningful and relevant to chapter learning objectives, systems thinking pedagogy, and actual organizational environments.

Critical Thinking

  • Over the course of the book, students will develop their ability to think critically and see the systems underlying different situations, to analyze and manage systems to reach desired outcomes, and to design systems that lead to sustainable, successful organizations.
  • Students will also have the opportunity to practice using systems thinking tools in Chapter 3: Critical Thinking for Managers and in each chapter, including Critical Thinking boxes, Critical Thinking questions, Management Stories, cases and case questions.
  • Relative to the Management Stories, the authors include a continuous examination of systems archetypes and an analysis of how managers intervene to catalyze desirable results.

Voices of Management

  • The Management in Action Video Series features interviews with real managers and leaders to illustrate real-life critical thinking and decision-making as it relates to each chapter topic.
  • For the "Management Stories" cases in each chapter, the Industry Leaders Advisory Board provided actual experiences that illustrate managerial challenges relevant to the learning objectives in each chapter. The Management Advisory board features professionals from B.F. Saul Company (Bethesda, MD), Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Riverside Health (Hampton Roads, VA), and Thurdermist Community Centers (Woonsocket, RI).

Research at Work

  • Leading Management field researchers contributed to the Research at Work features throughout the text, to support understanding of the cases and learning objectives.


  • A modern, relevant, and thorough approach to an introductory study of the management process. Pedagogically akin to a full-length Hollywood movie, where other texts exist as 30 minute sitcoms.
    —Trent Salvaggio, College of Charleston


Fundamentals of Physics Extended, 10th Edition
August 2013, © 2014
David Halliday
Robert Resnick
Jearl Walker


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