This is an OLD EDITION. To order the new edition, please perform a new search using the following ISBN: 9780071012928As the twenty-first century unfolds, our world is becoming an even smaller place. The development and uptake of new internet and mobile technologies is changing the way organisations do business. Globalisation is becoming a necessary consideration for any business, as worldwide competition intensifies. Technology, international activities, business practices and changes in attitude towards environmental and social issues impact the manager.
How do managers continue to manage at this pace of change? The new 5th edition of Bartol, Management: A Pacific Rim Focus looks at the challenge and the opportunity these organisations have in transforming their business.
Bartol, Management: A Pacfic Rim Focus, now in its 5th edition, continues to provide students with a strong theoretical foundation, with new exercises and cases to develop their critical thinking skills. New features, such as CEO Forums, give students a rare insight into the real-world of management decision-making. Bartol, Management: A Pacific Rim Focus is the text that prepares today's students for tomorrow's world.
Description
As the twenty-first century unfolds, our world is becoming an even smaller place. The development and uptake of new internet and mobile technologies is changing the way organisations do business. Globalisation is becoming a necessary consideration for any business, as worldwide competition intensifies. Technology, international activities, business practices and changes in attitude towards environmental and social issues impact the manager.
How do managers continue to manage at this pace of change? The new 5th edition of Bartol, Management: A Pacific Rim Focus looks at the challenge and the opportunity these organisations have in transforming their business.
Bartol, Management: A Pacfic Rim Focus, now in its 5th edition, continues to provide students with a strong theoretical foundation, with new exercises and cases to develop their critical thinking skills. New features, such as CEO Forums, give students a rare insight into the real-world of management decision-making. Bartol, Management: A Pacific Rim Focus is the text that prepares today's students for tomorrow's world.
Key Features
# Streamlined and Revised
# The addition of new co-author, Bishnu Sharma, provides an ideal opportunity for in-depth revision, and this is the most significant revision of this title since its first publication. Bartol, Management: A Pacific Rim Focus has been comprehensively revised and updated.
# New Content
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# Chapter 11 on Human Resource Management has been extensively revised and includes new sections on workplace diversity, work-life balance and the ageing workforce.
# Chapter 17 on Operations Management is a new chapter.
# Chapters 18 and 19 on International Management and Regional Management is extensively updated.
# All new cases.
# All new videos.
# Emerging Trends
# Bartol, Management: A Pacific Rim Focus has taken care to ensure that emerging trends covering contemporary management issues such as sustainability, gloablisation, ethical issues and intellectual property are covered. Not only do students enjoy discussion of these topical issues, but they also highlight some of the difficulties managers face dealing with these issues in the workplace.
Table of Contents
Bartol, Management: A Pacific Rim Focus 5e
Part 1 - Introduction
Chapter 1 The challenge of management
Chapter 2 Pioneering ideas in management
Chapter 3 Internal and external environments
Chapter 4 Social responsibility and ethics
Part 2 - Planning and decision making
Chapter 5 Managerial decision making
Chapter 6 Establishing goals, plans and strategies
Chapter 7 Managing change and conflict
Chapter 8 Fostering innovation
Part 3 - Organising
Chapter 9 Organisational structure
Chapter 10 Strategic organisation design
Chapter 11 Human resource management
Part 4 - Leading
Chapter 12 Motivation
Chapter 13 Leadership
Chapter 14 Communication
Chapter 15 Groups and teams
Part 5 - Controlling
Chapter 16 Controllng the organisation
Chapter 17 Operations management
Part 6 - Across all functions
Chapter 18 International management
Chapter 19 The regional context
Supplements
# Instructor CD to accompany Management
ISBN: 0070138788
Author(s): BARTOL
