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Contemporary Management, 5/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.
Early coverage of Manager as a Person : Chapter 3 “The Manager as a Person: Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture” discusses the nature and significance of organizational culture. Chapter 11, titled “Organizational Control and Change,” then discusses how culture is a powerful way of shaping behavior in organizations. In addition, Chapter 11 makes clear the important link between an organization's ability to innovate and adapt to a changing environment.
A wealth of Experiential Exercises: 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
¨ 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 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.
Full Chapter on Ethics and Social Responsibility ( Ch. 4). The authors dedicate greater and deeper coverage to many important topics including ethics and digital piracy; the stakeholder approach to ethics; the sources of ethics and the importance of ethical behavior.
Full-chapter on Diversity (Ch. 5). This chapter provides in-text discussions on wage and position disparities and the advantages of ensuring fair treatment and representation, disabilities, sexual orientation, as well as discussions of managing diversity, and sexual harassment and ways to eradicate it.
Two sequential chapters on Strategy ( Ch. 8 & 9) : Two chapters on Strategy provide a more comprehensive overview of the strategy-making process.
Manager as a Person feature: focuses on how a real manager brought about change to their organization. These examples within the chapters give students the opportunity to reflect on how individual managers dealt with real-life on-the-job challenges related to various chapter concepts.
Managing Ethically exercise at the end of each chapter: Reflecting the increased importance of this topic in business today these new EOC exercises present students with an ethical scenario or dilemma and ask them, either individually or in a group, to think about the issues from an ethical perspective to understand the challenges facing practicing managers.
Rich and Relevant Examples: An important feature of our book is the way we use real-world examples and stories about managers and companies to drive home the applied lessons to students. Our reviewers were unanimous in their praise of the sheer range and depth of the rich, interesting examples we use to illustrate the chapter material and make it come alive. Moreover, unlike boxed material in other books, our boxes are seamlessly integrated into the text; they are an integral part of the learning experience, and not tacked on or isolated from the text itself. This is central to our pedagogical approach.
Video cases : A video case for every chapter is included on the Student Online Learning Center and the Instructor Resource CD. Each video case illustrates application of the relevant chapter concepts and has a corresponding video in DVD format. These cases feature timely and thought-provoking topics affecting the business environment, a s well as profiles of successful businesses and managers.

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