Management by Mary Coulter and Stephen P. Robbins (1995, Hardcover)

Prentice Hall PTR

0134865561

9780134865560

41785

Stephen P. Robbins, Mary Coulter

Management

Hardcover

English

1995

Textbook

810 Pages

10.2in

1.2in

8.1in

58.5 Oz

Hd31.R5647 1996

5

(NOTE: Each chapter begins with Opener: A Manager's Dilemma; and concludes with Close: Real Managers Respond to Opening Dilemma; Summary; Review Questions; Discussion Questions; Self-Assessment Exercise; For Your Immediate Action; Ethical Dilemma Exercise; Case Application; Video Case.) I. INTRODUCTION. 1. Managers and Management. Who are managers? What is management and what do managers do? The value the marketplace puts on managers. Why study management? Managing Your Career: Career Opportunities in Management. 2. The Evolution of Management. Historical background. The early years. Recent years: Toward integration. Current trends and issues. II. DEFINING THE MANAGER'S TERRAIN. 3. Organizational Culture and Environment: The Constraints. The manager: Omnipotent or symbolic? The organization's culture. The environment. Managing Work Force Diversity: Creating a Supportive Culture for Diversity. Entrepreneurship: Identifying Environmental Opportunities. 4. Managing in a Global Environment. Who owns what? Overcoming parochialism. The changing global environment. How organizations go international. Managing in a foreign environment. Adjusting to a foreign culture: Transition and culture shock. 5. Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics. What is social responsibility? Social responsibility and economic performance. Is social responsibility just profit-maximizing behavior? Values-based management. A guide through the maze. Managerial ethics. A final thought. 6. Decision-Making: The Essence of the Manager's Job. The decision-making process. The pervasiveness of decision making. The rational decision maker. Problems and decisions: A contingency approach. Decision making styles. Managing Work Force Diversity: Decision Making Styles of Diverse Populations. Creativity in the decision making process. Analyzing decision alternatives. Managing Your Career. Group decision making. III. PLANNING. 7. Foundations of Planning. The definition of planning. Purposes of planning. Planning and performance. Myths about planning. Types of plans. Contingency factors in planning. Managing Work Force Diversity: Constraints in Building a Diverse Workforce. Objectives: The foundation of planning. 8. Strategic Management. The increasing importance of strategic planning. The strategic management process. Managing Your Career. Entrepreneurship: Strategy and the Entrepreneur. Corporate-level strategies. Business-level strategies. TQM as a strategic weapon. 9. Planning Tools and Techniques. Techniques for assessing the environment. Budgets. Operation planning tools. Time management: A guide to personal planning. IV. ORGANIZING. 10. Organization Structure and Design. Defining organization structure and design. Building the vertical dimension. Building the horizontal dimension. The contingency approach to organization design. Applications of organization design. Entrepreneurship: Structuring the Entrepreneurial Firm. Managing a Diverse Work Force: The Feminine Organization: Myth or Reality? 11. Human Resource Management. Managers and human resources departments. The human resource management process. Important environmental considerations. Human resource planning. Recruitment and decruitment. Selection. Orientation. Employee training. Career development. Managing Your Career. Compensation and benefits. Current issues in human resource management. 12. Managing Change and Innovation. What is change? Forces for change. Entrepreneurship: The Entrepreneur as Change Agent. Two different views on the change process. Organizational inertia and resistance to change. Techni

1996

College Audience

Management

95-033126

658

23

Yes

Business & Economics