Gareth R. Jones,
Texas A&M University -- College Station Jennifer M. George,
Rice University
ISBN: 0073530433 Copyright year: 2009
Features
New Features:
NEW! Completely updated: This text presents the most current coverage of the latest developments in management today. Every chapter of the 6th Edition has been thoroughly updated to ensure students learn from the latest research and practice. New and updated coverage on topics such as crisis management given the effects of the sub-prime mortgage crisis (ch. 1), conscientiousness, organizational commitment, emotions, relation between mood and creativity, emotional intelligence (ch. 2), global ethics, CEO pay stock options and the subprime mortgage crisis (ch. 4), social entrepreneurship (Ch. 7), need to maintain value-chain management over time (Ch. 9), prosocially motivated behavior and research related to it (Ch. 13), servant leadership (ch. 14), discussion of research on virtual teams (ch. 15), new technology for video conferences, discussion of increasing volume of email, and collaborating with wikis (Ch. 16).
NEW! All A Manager’s Challenge opening mini cases are new or updated: Challenge your students to think like real managers. Every chapter opens with “A Manager’s Challenge” posing a chapter-related issue and a discussion on how managers in one or more organizations responded to that challenge. These challenges demonstrate the uncertainty and excitement surrounding the management process.
NEW! Expanded use of small business examples: To ensure students see the clear connection between the concepts taught in their principles of management course and the application in their future job in a medium or small business, Jones and George have expanded the number of examples of the opportunities and challenges facing founders, managers, and employees in small businesses.
NEW! 25 of 37 BusinessWeek Case in the News are new to this edition: Each chapter contains two cases for analysis that are actual or shortened versions of BusinessWeek articles. The accompanying discussion questions encourage students to think about and analyze how real managers deal with real problems in the business world.
NEW! Expanded and updated coverage of Ethics, Diversity, Culture and Global issues: The authors have updated and where necessary, expanded the coverage of ethics, diversity & culture to support student understanding of these crucially important topics.
Completely updated resource that work: Whether you are looking for new ways to engage your students and motivate them in your course, try to ensure students are able to see the relevancy of the management concepts, or teach critically think about the issues so they are able to apply them right away, McGraw-Hill Management has you covered! Jones/George is supported by a wealth of unique resources to support your on campus, hybrid and online courses. This textbook is not only supported with a Test Bank, PowerPoints and Instructor Manual that have been completely updated to save you time and add value to your teaching, but it also comes with the most comprehensive and diverse set of video and online activities any publisher provides. Please see below under Instructor and Student Supplements for more details.
Retained Features:
Early coverage of Manager as a Person: Chapter 3 “Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: The Manager as a Person” discusses the nature and significance of organizational culture. The early coverage of these topics motivates students and allows them to apply the concepts to themselves and connect to the materials via in text self-assessment instruments. 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.
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 see and understand how individual real-life managers dealt with real on-the-job challenges related to various chapter concepts and help them understand how chapter concepts are applied in the real world.
Rich and Relevant Examples: An important feature of our book is the way we use real-world examples and stories about managers and companies large and small 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.
A wealth of Experiential Exercises: The creative and flexible Management in Action end-of-chapter material provide instructors with a wealth of exercises that will challenge students to learn by doing. These activities and exercises are designed to be used in either large or small classes and each chapter include:
Topics for Discussion and Action
Building Management Skills: Each chapter provides a number of activities specifically geared towards providing students the opportunity to gain important managerial skills.
Managing Ethically: Reflecting the increased importance of this topic in business today these 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.
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.
BusinessWeek Case in the News feature two full or abbreviated BusinessWeek articles with discussion questions encourage students to read about and to analyze how real managers deal with real problems in the business world. 25 of the 37 articles are new to this edition.
The Instructor Manual provides guidance and solution for implementing these activities in your classroom. For more group and video materials, please see the Group and Video Resource Manual.
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.
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 from a student’s and a manager’s perspective.
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 an integrated, comprehensive treatment of strategy and highlight the multitude of decisions managers must make as they go about performing their most important role—increasing organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and performance.
Video cases: A video case for every chapter is included on the Student Online Learning Center and the Instructor Resource CD. Each video case is written based on the video clip and 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, as well as profiles of successful businesses and managers.
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