Management / Stephen P. Robbins, Mary Coulter.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For courses in Principles of Management or Introduction to Management. Robbins and Coulters best-selling text demonstrates the real-world applications of management concepts and makes management come alive by bringing real managers and students together. As it successfully integrates the various functions of management, the book establishes a dialogue with managers from a variety of fields. Students and professors alike will enjoy the chapter-opening A Managers Dilemma vignettes (which Introduce students to real situations - related to chapter concepts - fated by real managers) and the chapter-ending Real Managers Respond to Opening Dilemma discussions that enable students to explore successful resolutions using concepts they learned in each chapter.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Specific Changes to Chapters
• Chapter 1 Introduction to Organisations and Management
• Additional text on viewing the manager's job from the perspective of managing systems as well as taking a contingency view on management in order to manage in different and changing situations
• Both these perspectives have been introduced in the first Chapter to reflect today's complexities involved in managing
• Chapter 2 The Evolution of Management
• In addition to covering the development of management throughout the 20th century, Chapter 2 now contains a discussion about current trends and issues in management
• These are globalisation, workforce diversity, information technology, continually learning and adaptive organisations, TQM, dismantling the hierarchy and ethics and trust
• Chapter 3 Organisational Culture and Environment: The Constraints
• Organisational culture is beefed up with a new expanded section
• The Section on the business environment has also been updated to reflect some of the current issues that influence organisational life such as the economic situation in South-east Asia as well as global and technological conditions
• Chapter 4 Managing in a Global Environment
• Chapter 4 has been reorganised to provide a more focused and tighter discussion of globalisation of business and its influence on management practice
• Chapter 5 Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics
• Chapter 5 now contains material on values-based management and the greening of management
• Chapter 6 Decision-making
• Chapter 7 Foundations of Planning
• Chapter 8 Strategic Management and
• Chapter 9 Planning Tools and techniques
• Chapters 6,7,8 and 9 have undergone only minor rewriting
• The examples are either new or updated from a diverse set of organisations
• The selection is a balance of manufacturing and service organisations, large and small businesses, profit and not-for-profit organisations as well as including organisations from a variety of different global locations
• Chapter 10 Organisational Structure and Design
• Chapter 10 comprises old Chapter 10 and 11. The material is now tighter and more focused
• New material in organisational design such as the boundary-less organisation and the learning organisation as well as how modern communication technologies affect organisational design
• Chapter 11 Human Resource Management
• New material on skill-based pay and broadbanding compensation, family-friendly work arrangements and the importance of dealing with occupational health and safety
• Chapter 12 Managing Change and Innovation
• New material on re-engineering and managing downsized workplaces has been added
• Chapter 13 Foundations of Behaviour
• Chapter 14 Understanding Groups and Teams
• These chapters have undergone minor change to the content
• New examples of organisations and managers have been included
• Chapter 15 Motivating Employees
• Discussion on designing motivating jobs has been moved from Chapter 11 in the old edition
• New material on pay-for-performance, open-book management, employee share ownership plans, and motivating the 'new workforce'
• Chapter 16 Leadership
• New material of visionary leadership, team leadership and creating a culture of trust
• Chapter 17 Communication and Interpersonal skills
• Changes to the examples and boxes
• Chapter 18 Foundations of Control
• Ethical issues of control such as employee workplace privacy, computer monitoring and off-the-job behaviour
• Chapter 19 Operations Management
• Rewritten to include latest changes
• New topics on customer-driven operations, reengineering work processes, project management, technology and product development, ISO 9000, and outsourcing
• Chapter 20 Management Information Systems: Control Tools and Techniques
• This Chapter has been considerably rewritten to reflect how modern management information systems are changing the manager's job
• Chapter 21 Career Planning
• Some changes based on latest trends, downsizing, delayering, restructuring and reengineering
• Supplements
• Instructor's Resource CD: This CD contains the Instructor's Manual and PowerPoint slides
• Instructor's Manual contains expanded outlines of each Chapter and thorough teaching notes for all in-text activities along with key terms and answers for discussion questions
• PowerPoint slides: Over 250 full colour slides, with accompanying Teachers notes, have been developed to accompany the text
• Test Item File: A comprehensive test bank featuring 2000 multiple choice, true/false and essay type questions
• The program allows lecturers to select, edit and create their own texts
• Tests can be delivered in paper format or on-line
• Australian Companion Website: This content rich website provides students and academics with updated current events articles on management and study guide material for students to test their understanding. www.prenhall.com/robbins_au
• Student learning guide and workbook: This saleable supplement is designed to be used in conjunction with the text to support and reinforce the concepts, models and theories of OB provided within the text
• For study guide details refer to page 108
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Author notes provided by Syndetics

Stephen P. Robbins received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He previously worked for the Shell Oil Company and Reynolds Metals Company. Since completing his graduate studies, Dr. Robbins has taught at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Concordia University in Montreal, the University of Baltimore, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and San Diego State University. Dr. Robbins' research interests have focused on conflict, power, and politics in organizations, as well as the development of effective interpersonal skills. His articles on these and other topics have appeared in such journals as Business Horizons, the California Management Review, Business and Economic Perspectives, International Management, Management Review, Canadian Personnel and Industrial Relations, and the Journal of Management Education.

In recent years, Dr. Bobbins has been spending most of his professional time writing textbooks. In addition to Management, Seventh Edition, these include Organizational Behavior, Ninth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2001); Fundamentals of Management, Third Edition, with David DeCenzo (Prentice Hall, 2001); Supervision Today!, Third Edition, with David DeCenzo (Prentice Hall, 2001); Business Today (Harcourt, 2001); Human Resource Management, Sixth Edition, with David DeCenzo (Wiley, 1999); Managing Today!, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 2000); Essentials of Organizational Behavior, Sixth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2000); Training in Interpersonal Skills, Second Edition, with Philip Hunsaker (Prentice Hall, 1996); and Organization Theory, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 1990). These books are used at more than a thousand U.S. colleges and universities, as well as hundreds of schools throughout Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Scandinavia, and Europe.

In Dr. Bobbins' "other life," he participates in masters' track competition. Since turning 50 in 1993, he has set numerous indoor and outdoor world sprint records. He's also won gold medals in World Veteran Games in 100m, 200m, and 400m. In 1995, Bobbins was named the year's outstanding age-40-and-over male track and field athlete by the Masters Track and Field Committee of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for athletes in the United States.

Mary Coulter received her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Before completing her graduate work, she held different jobs including high school teacher, legal assistant, and government program planner. She has taught at Drury University, the University of Arkansas, Trinity University, and since 1983, at Southwest Missouri State University. Dr. Coulter's research interests have focused on competitive strategies for not-for-profit arts organizations and the use of new media in the educational process. Her research on these and other topics has appeared in such journals as Journal of Business Strategies, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, International Journal of Business Disciplines, and Case Research Journal. In addition to Management, Dr. Coulter has published two other books with Prentice Hall, Strategic Management in Action, Second Edition, and Entrepreneurship in Action. When she's not busy teaching or writing, she enjoys puttering around in her flower gardens, playing the piano, reading all different types of books, and enjoying many different activities with husband Ron and daughters Sarah and Katie.