New Features:

• Completely updated research and examples - The authors have thoroughly updated every chapter in the text to include many important new developments in management and the inclusion of scores of new and updated boxes focusing on the problems facing managers now. Highlights of new coverage include new or expanded coverage of the implication of global outsourcing; global crisis management; the process of globalization and the way organizations build their human, financial, resource, and political capital to better compete at home and abroad and expanded coverage of NAFTA and CAFTA.
  
  
• Planning and Strategy Chapter 6 completely reworked - Now the nature and importance of planning is followed by a discussion of business and then corporate strategy followed by global strategy. This revised chapter provides a better flow to the material for better student comprehension.
  
  
• Expanded Ch. 3: Managing Ethics and Diversity - Chapter 3 has been expanded to provide additional material on ethics, ethical dilemmas, the effective management of diversity, and ways to eradicate sexual harassment.
  
  
• NEW! Video Cases - Video cases for every chapter are included on the online learning center. Each video case illustrates application of the relevant chapter concepts and has a corresponding video on DVD or on the OLC. These cases feature timely and thought-provoking topics affecting the business environment.
  
  
• NEW! Management in the Movies (ISBN: 0073317713) McGraw-Hill is now offering a Management in the Movies DVD loaded with scenes from major Hollywood movies and TV Shows! For example, the clip from Hoosiers has great application to leadership, individual differences (self-efficacy and self esteem), and group dynamics. Each movie has been clipped to highlight a specific scene (each is less than two and a half minutes) and linked to specific topics including groups, ethics, diversity, global management, and more! Along with the DVD, McGraw-Hill provides an instructor’s manual with suggestions for usage of the clip, clip summaries, and discussion questions to accompany each segment.
  
  
• NEW! The Build Your Management Skills Student activities are now online - Utilizing the latest technology to help students hone their personal management skills the Build Your Management Skills activities previously available on a CD are now available on the Premium Online Learning Center and part of the Enhanced Cartridge.
  
  
• NEW! Destination CEO Video Clips - New to this edition, students will be able to watch 20 video clips about a wide range of CEOs and answer multiple-choice and discussion questions about the videos. The Destination CEO video clips are premium content and are available for students on the OLC and in the course cartridge for Blackboard, WebCT & other course management systems. Access can be purchased at www.mhhe.com/jones3e or at the bookstore. Teaching notes and short descriptions are included in the Instructor’s Manual.
  
  
• NEW! Enhanced Cartridge with iPod Content – The Enhanced Cartridge is developed to help you get your course up and running in WebCT, BlackBoard, and other course management systems. The content, enhanced with more assignments and more study materials than a standard cartridge, is pre-populated into appropriate chapters and content categories. Now there is no need to cut and past content into your course—it’s already there! But, you can still choose to hide content we provide and add your own—just as you have before. The Enhanced Cartridge for this text contains iPod/MP3 content, chapter pre- and post-tests, discussion boards, chapter video & quizzes, Self-Assessments, Test Your Knowledge Activities, Manager’s Hot Seat Video, Key Term Flash Cards, Interactive History Timeline, & Destination CEO video and more.
  
  
• Manager’s Hot Seat – Now Online: This interactive, video-based software puts students in the manager’s hot seat and requires them to apply their knowledge to dealing with important issues such as ethics, diversity, working in teams, and the virtual workplace. These interactive segments can be used in the classroom or as enrichment activities for students to complete on their own. Students can access this application standalone at www.mhhe.com/mhs for a nominal charge, or receive it as part of their Premium OLC and in the Enhanced Cartridge. Instructor support is provided in the Group & Video Resource Manual.
  
  

Retained Features:

• Manager as a Person - Chapter 2, Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: The Manager as a Person, puts the student in the manager's shoes by focusing on managers as feeling, thinking human beings. This chapter explains how the personal characteristics of managers and entrepreneurs influence an organization's culture and the process of management, and allows students to apply the concepts to themselves via in text self-assessment instruments.
  
  
• Manager as a Person throughout the text - This feature, provided in every chapter, focuses on how a real manager brought about change to their organization. These examples give students the opportunity to reflect on how individual managers dealt with real-life on-the-job challenges related to various chapter concepts and help them see the application of concepts in the real world.
  
  
• Strong Ethics coverage - In addition to the updated Chapter 3 on ethics and diversity, ethical issues are explored throughout the book through in-text “Ethics in Action” examples and through the real-life Managing Ethically exercise at the end of every chapter. In all these ways the authors drive home to students the deep and significant ethical issues involved in management.
  
  
• Emphasis on Applied Management
  
  
• A wealth of Experiential Exercises - This text provides state-of-the-art experiential exercises that drive home the meaning of management to students. These exercises are at the end of every chapter ina section called “Management in Action.” Included are:
  
  
• Topics for Discussion and Action - This set of chapter related questions and points for reflection ask student to research actual management tissues and learn firsthand from practicing managers.
  
  
• Building Management Skills - These self-development exercises ask students to apply what they have learned from their own experience in organizations, from managers or from the experiences of others.
  
  
• Managing Ethically - To support student’s understanding of the issues practicing managers face, students are presented with exercises representing ethical scenario or dilemmas which ask them to critically think about the issue from an ethical perspective.
  
  
• Small Group Breakout Exercise – These are designed to allow instructors in large classes to utilize interactive experiential exercises in the classroom.
  
  
• Be the Manager is this exercise students are asked to get hands on with chapter concepts as they are faced with a realistic managerial challenge that needs to be figured out.
  
  
• BusinessWeek Case in the News – These shortened BusinessWeek articles conclude every chapter and provide questions that encourage students to think about how real managers deal with problems in the business world.
  
  
• Appendix on Career Development - This appendix guides students thru the types of careers, the career stages & effective career management to help them choose a career in management as well as find and land the right job.
  
  
• Integration of Ethics, Diversity, Global & IT - Integration of Key Themes is one of the principle strengths of this text. Unlike other texts, examples are blended seamlessly into the text rather than set off in isolated boxes. The authors seamlessly integrate stories and examples about key issues with integrated "un-boxes" highlighting 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 relevant.