Understanding Management or Small Business Management

Understanding Management

Author: Richard L Daft

Understanding Management combines classic management concepts with emerging trends and issues in a concise, exciting, and user-friendly format. The theme of the fourth edition is the 'new workplace' highlighting how technology and other influences have changed the traditional organizations and the impact on their members. The goal since the first edition has been to provide a practical and hands-on alternative to the traditional and comprehensive texts on the market.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Managers in Learning Organizations
1.The Changing Paradigm of Management. Part II. The Environment of Management
2.The Environment and Corporate Culture
3.Managing in a Global Environment
4.Managerial Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. Part III. Planning
5.Organizational Goal Setting and Planning
6.Managerial Decision Making. Part IV. Organizing
7.Fundamentals of Organizing
8.Change and Development
9.Human Resource Management
10.Managing Diverse Employees. Part V. Leading
11.Foundations of Behavior in Organizations
12.Leadership in Organizations
13.Motivation in Organizations
14.Communicating in Organizations
15.Teamwork in Organizations. Part VI. Controlling
16.Productivity through Management and Quality Control Systems.

Book about: Successful Diversity Management Initiatives or Global Inequalities

Small Business Management: A Framework for Success

Author: Charles E Bamford

SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT is a problem-based book for the small business course where experiential learning is key. This text emphasizes problem-based learning through working with real problems faced by entrepreneurs and small business owners. SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT has built real-world scenarios into its chapters, via its Office Lots continuing case, and interspersed exercises throughout where students often play the roles of financial analyst, marketer, and business owner in order to find solutions. In essence, SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT will be a hands-on learning practicum. With a solid emphasis on research and the most current environmental conditions in small business, and the authors? backgrounds in strategy, this text provides a solid foundation in terms of the types of business students are most likely to start, which are those businesses that start out small and are expected to stay small for the foreseeable future. The text also provides coverage and development of the business plan which is found in SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT's Appendix.