New Features

NEW Connect Management with Interactives® is McGraw-Hill's web-based assignment and assessment platform that connects you and your students to the coursework. Interactives provided for each chapter of the textbook allow students to "do" management, stimulate critical thinking, and reinforce key concepts. Students receive immediate feedback and can track their progress in their own report.  The following6 types of Interactives were developed for MANAGEMENT based on actual book-specific content.

1. Case Video Pop-up Analysis: Case study videos are included, and include 6 multiple-choice pop-up questions that appear as the video plays, to test concept and/or terminology comprehension.
2. Drag and Drop Sequencing Activity: To reinforce either chronological or multi-step processes, we provide a written overview of a topic from the text. The 8 items that represent each the steps of the overall process are included that the student will place in order on the provided timeline. If applicable a 2nd task will be to assign the appropriate ‘players' to each task.
3. Prediction/Decision Generators: Students are presented with 2-3 concepts from the text and a written case study that illustrates the concepts presented. The students will then answer a series of questions to either predict what the company will do or reach a decision on a certain issue (the ‘evidence' presented will be very concrete to ensure a clearly correct response).
4. Comprehension Multiple-Choice Activities: In order to reinforce comprehension of terminology within context, a case example from the text is included that illustrates key terms from the chapter. Students will then be provided with 6 multiple-choice questions that bridge the content from the case to the mastery of terminology
5. Chart Population: Students will be asked to categorize information by assigning items to specific fields within a chart. Students will then be asked to analyze the chart created with 6 multiple-choice questions.
6. Self-Assessments: Students will take assessments to determine their beliefs, values, and interests in a variety of areas.

Completely Updated: This text has been completely updated to reflect the most current research and include the most current developments and examples.

UPDATED: Get the Real Scoop: Young Managers Speak Out  – Every chapter opens with a young manager speaking out about management issues covered in the chapter to follow. Just a few years out of college, these managers speak about their experience as first line managers, a position that successful students will can see themselves in a few short years.  A video clip of most of the young managers is available with the Premium Resources supporting this textbook.

UPDATED: Green & Social Responsibility Theme – This text emphasizes ethics, social responsibility and uniquely brings environmental concerns to the forefront. Every chapter provides a mini-case with ethical, social- or environmental issues a manager is faced with while providing discussion questions to prompt students to critically think about the situation.

Distinguishing Features

Student friendly design - Bateman/Snell Management was written and designed with today's student reader in mind.

• The layout and design provides student visual stimulation they've come to expect.
  
• The content was written to focus on the key concepts only.
• Pop-up quotes, marginal key terms/definitions, and Did You Know? callouts that feature interesting and important facts are used throughout the chapters to capture students' attention.
• The examples provided have been selected for greater student appeal.
• The writing style is highly readable with today's student reader in mind.

Get the Real Scoop: Young Managers Speak Out – Every chapter opens with a young manager speaking out about management issues covered in the chapter to follow. Just a few years out of college, these managers speak about their experience as first line managers, a position that successful students will can see themselves in a few short years.  A video clip of most of the young managers is available on the Online Learning Center and within Connect supporting this textbook.

That was THEN, This is NOW – Historical aspects of management have been integrated into every chapter of this textbook via the That was THEN, This is NOW feature. This feature emphasizes the importance of the history of management, and integrates the content into every chapter where appropriate for added student interest. Additionally, there is a management history timeline in the front end papers which comes to life on the Online Learning Center and within Connect supporting this text.

Active Review Cards – Print review cards for every chapter are bound in each new book to support student learning of key chapter objectives.  Instead of providing review materials that just repeat information from the text, which leads to a passive use of materials, these review cards actively engage students in the learning process. The front of the card asks the student to write what he/she recalls from each of the learning objectives in the chapter.  After completing this step, the student turns to the back to review the learning objectives broken down into bulleted lists, and then completes fill-in-the-blank application questions to test their knowledge beyond basic comprehension.  The answers to these application questions are available on the bottom of the card (upside down). These review cards provide a useful exercises that actually help students LEARN and remember, as opposed to passively read review materials.

DIY – Build Your Management Skills – All student review material has been moved to the Online Learning Center supporting this book (www.mhhe.com/batemanM) to allow students to interact with the contents in a media rich environment which students find more engaging to work in. Access to there resources is provided in the envelope provided with every new copy of the textbook. Stand-alone access is available for purchase

• Concept Review materials - Focus on studying the concepts. The OLC provides student PowerPoint slides and narrated slides to support students studying the chapter concepts. To help reinforce student's understanding of key management concepts, an interactive application called Test Your Knowledge provides a review of the conceptual materials is followed by application based questions for students to work thru. Students can choose ‘practice mode', which provides them with detailed feedback after each question, or ‘test mode', which provides feedback after the entire test has been completed. Every Test Your Knowledge activity is supported by Instructor Notes in the Asset Gallery, to make it easy for the instructor to create an engaging classroom discussion surrounding the materials students have completed.
  
  iPod Content is provided to help students study on the go. Our innovative approach allows students to download audio and video presentations directly onto their iPod and take learning materials with them wherever they go. Whether it's in the car, on the train, or walking between classes – it's easy to get a quick refresher on key course content and to make review and study time as easy as putting on headphones.
  
  Students can download videos, interactive quizzes, and narrated lectures into your iPod or comparable MP3/MP4 player. If a media player isn't available, content can also be viewed on your personal computer.
  
  Students can also view & listen to these materials on their computer, and review materials with the Narrated Lecture Presentation that's provided for each chapter.
  
  Interactive Management History Timeline: This Web application allows instructors to present and students to learn the history of management in an engaging and interactive way. Management history is presented along an intuitive timeline that can be traveled through sequentially or by selected decade. With the click of a mouse students learn the important dates, see the people who influenced the field, and understand the general management theories that have molded and shaped management as we know it today. Faculty can monitor students' progress and completion of these materials via quiz materials provided with this application.

• Applications - Apply what you've learned.  All of the review and application exercises that are typically found at the end of the chapter in most traditional textbooks can easily be accessed online.
  • Self-Assessment Gallery – Apply chapter concepts to yourself!  McGraw-Hill's Self-Assessment Gallery provides a comprehensive tool of 19 automatically scored self-assessments. Unique among publisher provided self-assessments, every one of our instruments provides students with background information to ensure students understand the purpose of the assessment they are about to take. And after students complete the self-assessment, a score is displayed along with detailed feedback on what the score actually means.
    
    Every Self-Assessment activity is supported by PowerPoints and Instructor Manual in the Asset Gallery, to make it easy for the instructor to create an engaging classroom discussion surrounding the assessments students have completed.
    
    
  • Young Managers Speak Out  – A video clip of the young managers speaking out about specific management issues is provided online to help students see concepts applied by managers just a few years out of college.
    
    
  • Manager's Hot Seat Online!  Put your students in the hot seat with access to an interactive program.  Students are given an introduction to the situation, view a dossier of related management materials, and then watch 16 real managers apply their years of experience when confronting unscripted issues.  As the scenario unfolds, questions about how the manager is handling the situation pop up, forcing the student to make decisions along with the manager.  At the end of the scenario, students watch a post-interview with the manager, view how their responses matched up to the manager's decisions, and then submit a report critiquing the manager's choices while defending their own. Instructor support for these interactive videos can be found on the Asset Gallery.
• Concept Testing
  • Practice Quizzes - Maximize your grade and test your understanding of the concepts via multiple-choice, true-false & matching quizzes.  A practice Midterm & Final Exam is provided.  

Fully modernized functional approach— This text is maintaining the four traditional functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, while modernizing and re-visioning the concepts as delivering strategic value, building a dynamic organization, mobilizing people, and learning and changing.