Fundamentals of management : core concepts and applications / [Griffin].

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Fundamentals of Management, 2/e, provides a concise discussion of traditional management functions, skill-focused pedagogical features, and the flexibility to use case studies, exercises, and management projects from outside the text without sacrificing key topics in the text.

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• Note: Each chapter includes a Summary of Key Points, Questions for Review, Questions for Analysis, Building Effective Skills, You Make the Call, Skills Self-Assessment Instrument, an Experiential Exercise, and a Case Study
• I An Introduction to Management
• 1 Understanding the Manager's Job
• An Introduction to Management
• The Evolution of Management
• Contemporary Management Theory
• 2 The Environment of Organizations and Managers
• The Organization's Environment
• The Ethical and Social Environment of Management
• The International Environment of Management
• The Organization's Culture
• II Planning
• 3 Planning and Strategic Management
• Planning and Organizational Goals
• The Nature of Strategic Management
• Using SWOT Analysis to Formulate Strategy
• Formulating Business-Level Strategies
• Formulating Corporate-Level Strategies
• Tactical Planning
• Operational Planning
• 4 Managing Decision Making
• The Nature of Decision Making
• Rational Perspectives on Decision Making
• Behavioral Aspects of Decision Making
• Group and Team Decision Making in Organizations
• 5 Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management
• The Nature of Entrepreneurship
• The Role of Entrepreneurship in Society
• Strategy for Entrepreneurial Organizations
• Structure of Entrepreneurial Organizations
• The Performance of Entrepreneurial Organizations
• III Organizing
• 6 Organization Structure and Design
• The Nature of Organizing
• The Bureaucratic Model of Organization Design
• Situational Influences on Organization Design
• Basic Forms of Organization Design
• Emerging Forms of Organization Design
• 7 Organization Change and Innovation
• The Nature of Organization
• Change Managing Change in Organizations
• Organization Development
• Organizational Innovation
• 8 Managing Human Resources
• The Environmental Context of Human Resource
• Management Attracting Human Resources
• Developing Human Resources
• Maintaining Human Resources
• Managing Workforce Diversity
• Managing Labor Relations
• IV Leading
• 9 Managing Individual Behavior
• Understanding Individuals in Organizations
• Personality and Individual Behavior
• Attitudes and Individual Behavior
• Perception and Individual Behavior
• Stress and Individual Behavior
• Creativity in Organizations
• Types of Workplace Behavior
• 10 Motivating Employee Performance
• The Nature of Motivation Content
• Perspectives on Motivation Process
• Perspectives on Motivation Reinforcement
• Perspectives on Motivation Popular
• Motivational Strategies
• Using Reward Systems to Motivate Performance
• 11 Leadership and Influence Processes
• The Nature of Leadership
• The Search for Leadership Traits Leadership
• Behaviors Situational Approaches to Leadership
• Related Perspectives on Leadership
• Political Behavior in Organizations
• 12 Communication in Organizations
• Communication and the Manager's Job
• Forms of Communication in Organizations
• Electronic Communication
• Informal Communication in Organizations
• Managing Organizational Communication
• 13 Managing Groups and Teams Groups and Teams in Organizations
• Characteristics of Groups and Teams
• Interpersonal and Intergroup Conflict Managing
• Conflict in Organizations
• V Controlling
• 14 Managing the Control Process
• The Nature of Control in Organizations
• Operations Control
• Financial Control
• Structural Control
• Managing Control in Organizations
• 15 Managing for Total Quality
• Managing Total Quality
• Managing Productivity
• Managing Quality Through Operations
• Management Using Operations
• Systems for Quality
• Appendix: Tools for Planning and Decision Making
• Forecasting: Sales and Revenue
• Forecasting
• Technological Forecasting
• Other Types of Forecasting
• Forecasting Techniques
• Other Planning Techniques: Linear Programming
• Breakeven Analysis
• Simulations
• PERT Decision-Making Tools: Payoff Matrices
• Decision Trees
• Other Techniques
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Planning Tools: Weaknesses and Problems
• Strengths and Advantages
• Summary of Key Points