Contemporary Management Information Center: Retained Features


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Contemporary Management, 4/e

Gareth R. Jones, Texas A & M University -- College Station
Jennifer M. George, Rice University

Retained Features

· Integration of Key Themes is one of the principles strengths of this text. The authors seamlessly integrate stories and examples about key issues—integrated "boxes" highlight key issues: Focus on Diversity, Ethics in Action, Manager as a Person, Management Insight, and Managing Globally, and IT Byte. Examples are carefully selected to be both interesting and educational, including such topics as Pizza Teams at Amazon and NASA’s Flawed Culture.
· The creative and flexible Management in Action end-of-chapter material that instructors and student alike enjoyed in previous editions has been retained. They are designed to be used in either large or small classes and each chapter includes:
¨ Topics for Discussion and Action
¨ Building Management Skills (more assessment-based in this edition)
¨ Small Group Breakout: The authors recognize that today working effectively in small groups is a vital skill for future managers. This feature ensures that students learn the importance of collaboration and teamwork in solving business challenges. It can be used in small or large classes.
¨ Exploring the World Wide Web requires students to actively search the Web to find an answer to the problems.
¨ Be the Manager (formerly You’re the Management Consultant) presents a realistic scenario in which a manager/organization faces some kind of challenge, problem, or opportunity and the student plays the role of a manager offering advice and recommending a course of action based on the chapter content.
¨ Management Case in the News feature two Business Week Cases (based on actual Business Week articles) with discussion questions encourage students to read about and to analyze how real managers deal with real problems in the business world.

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