Contemporary Management | 12th Edition
By Jennifer M. George
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,Table of Content
PART ONE: MANAGEMENT
1. Managers and Managing
2. The Evolution of Management Thought
3. Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture The Manager as a Person
PART TWO: THE ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGEMENT
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4. Ethics and Social Responsibility
5. Managing Diverse Employees in a Multicultural Environment
6. Managing in the Global Environment
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PART THREE: DECISION MAKING, PLANNING, AND STRATEGY
7. Decision Making, Learning, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
8. The Manager as a Planner and Strategist
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9. Value Chain Management Functional Strategies for Competitive Advantage
PART FOUR: ORGANIZING AND CONTROLLING
10. Managing Organizational Structure and Culture
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11. Organizational Control and Change
12. Human Resource Management
PART FIVE: LEADING INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
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13. Motivation and Performance
14. Leadership
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15. Effective Groups and Teams
PART SIX: MANAGING CRITICAL ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES
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16. Promoting Effective Communication
17. Managing Conflict, Politics, and Negotiation
18. Using Advanced Information Technology to Increase Performance
19. Starting a New Business
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Patel Brothers Company uses a formal system of task and reporting relationships that coordinates
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As a middle manager, Jobeth selects the goals for her team. The function that Jobeth is
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Categorizing people by salary levels lays out the lines of authority and responsibility between
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Malik supervises the daily work of the employees who help customers and ring up sales in the
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, The importance of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling remains the same irrespective
of a manager's position in the managerial hierarchy.
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If you were a manager at an accounting firm and spent your days processing invoices and
payments and ensuring tax compliance, you would be using your technical skills.
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When Tech Innovators needed to reduce costs to meet its annual profitability goal, it reduced
levels in its hierarchy and laid off 9 percent of its workers. This is an example of restructuring.
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A self-managed team is a group of employees who work independently but report to their
respective managers about the progress of the team’s work.
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The building blocks of competitive advantage are efficiency, quality, innovation and flexibility,
and responsiveness to customers.
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