Management Fundamentals. Concepts, Applications, and Skill Development - Softcover

Lussier, Robert N.

9781544331331: Management Fundamentals. Concepts, Applications, and Skill Development

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544331339 ISBN 13: 9781544331331

Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc, 2018

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Packed with experiential exercises, self-assessments, and group activities to develop management skills students can use in their personal and professional lives.

Written using a three-prong approach that covers concepts, application, and skills for all traditional and current topics in management, providing in-depth coverage of key topics such as diversity, ethics, technology, and globalization.

New to this edition:

New case studies highlighting contemporary challenges and opportunities facing managers at well-known organizations such as Whole Foods, Wells Fargo, and the Chicago Cubs.
Expanded and updated Trends and Issues sections explore timely topics such as the changing nature of work, managing multiple generations, and virtual teams.
All of the Applying the Concept boxes are new and engage students in applying the concepts to their own experiences and provide situational analysis opportunities to develop critical thinking skills.
Management in Action videos illustrate fundamental management concepts using a variety of relatable scenarios and assessment questions to challenge students to apply and analyze workplace situations.

Key learning features include:

Self-Assessments - helping readers gain personal knowledge of management functions in the real world and providing opportunities for readers to learn about their personal management styles and apply chapter concepts.
Work Applications - empowering students to apply the text concepts to their own experience (full-time, part-time, summer, volunteer work).
Ideas on Management - chapter-opening cases highlight real companies and people, and are used to illustrate and reinforce chapter concepts.
Join the Discussion boxes provide opportunities for classroom dialog around ethical dilemmas facing today’s organizations.

The book is complemented with online resources for lecturers and students, which include tools and resources such as Diagnostic chapter pre-tests and post-tests, Test banks, Assignable SAGE Premium Video, Animated videos and Management in Action videos, eFlashcards, eQuizzes, and Chapter learning objectives.

Suitable reading for introductory management modules.

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Robert N. Lussier is a professor of management at Springfield College and taught management for more than 35 years. He is a prolific writer, with more than 500 publications to his credit. His articles have been published in the Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, Business Horizons, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Family Business Review, Journal of Business Strategies, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Small Business Strategy, SAM Advanced Management Journal, and several others. He also has a human resources management textbook (with John Hendon) published by SAGE and other textbooks.

More than two million people globally have used his textbooks, earning him an unsurpassed national and international reputation as an author and keynote speaker. Dr. Lussier is the founder of Publish Don’t Perish (www.publishdonotperish.com) and through contact, his Publish Don’t Perish: The Top Secrets to Get Published book, and workshops has helped hundreds of institutions and individuals in 80-plus countries get published. His presentations inspire comments like: “Bob explains complex business topics in an easy-to-understand language while keeping his audience engaged and spellbound” (Dr. Raj V. Mahto, professor, University of New Mexico)

Dr. Lussier also consults to a wide array of commercial and nonprofit organizations. In fact, some of the material in the book was developed for such clients as Baystate Medical Center, Coca-Cola, Friendly’s Ice Cream, National Institute of Financial Education, Mead, Monsanto, Smith & Wesson, the Social Security Administration, the Visiting Nurse Association, and YMCAs.

Dr. Lussier holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Salem State College, master’s degrees in business and education from Suffolk University (AACSB accredited), and a doctorate in management from the University of New Haven (AACSB MBA accredited, prior to doctoral accreditation).

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