This innovative new text examines important contemporary themes within a straightforward process framework of management. It brings out the importance of management skills, offering readers many opportunities to identify and develop them. Alternative viewpoints are addressed and the reader is encouraged to take a critical view of what is so often taken for granted. Organised in seven parts, the first two parts provide the context. They discuss the nature of management and its development, setting out the themes of globalisation, ethics, quality and enterprise. The last five parts investigate the management process itself, covering the stages of planning, organising, implementing and controlling to show how managers bring everything together to create and sustain an organisation. Through the extensive use of examples, students are shown ways to investigate and present solutions to problems. *Uses a straightforward framework to describe and discuss what managers do. *Extensively illustrated with a wealth of examples taken from public, private, voluntary and international organisations. *Thorough treatment of the subject linked thematically by contemporary issues; culture, ethics, qua
- ISBN10 6610600767
- ISBN13 9786610600762
- Publish Date 1 January 2004 (first published 15 December 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson Education UK
- Format eBook
- Pages 689
- Language English