Essentials Of Contemporary Management
PART I MANAGEMENT
Chapter ONE Managers and Managing
CHAPTER TWO Managing the Organizational Environment
Appendix A: History of Management Thought
Part II PLANNING
CHAPTER THREE Managing Decision Making
CHAPTER FOUR Managing Planning and Strategy
Appendix B: Developing a Business Plan
PART III ORGANIZING
CHAPTER FIVE Managing Organizational Structure
CHAPTER SIX Managing Information and Communication
CHAPTER SEVEN Managing Human Resources
Appendix C: Career Development
PART IV LEADING
CHAPTER EIGHT Managing Motivation
CHAPTER NINE Managing Leadership
CHAPTER TEN Managing Teams
PART V CONTROLLING
CHAPTER ELEVEN Managing Control and Operations
CHAPTER TWELVE Managing Change
Jones, Essentials of Contemporary Management, makes management real for students. The eighth Canadian edition presents management in a concise and engaging way that makes its relevance clear to students who may lack exposure to a "real-life" management context.
Essentials of Contemporary Management provides a concise offering of current management theories and research. Through a variety of real world examples from small, medium, and large companies, students learn how management strategies are used by practicing managers. Driving home the message that management matters, Jones emphasizes that management theory and practice determines how well organizations perform and directly impacts the lives of employees, customers, communities, and shareholders.
The organization of the Jones text follows the functional approach of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, but the content remains flexible, allowing instructors the ability to customize to their own individual teaching flow. The important themes of diversity, ethics, globalization, and information technology are integrated throughout with examples, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, personalities, and problems to provide these contexts.
Using a personalized approach to teaching and learning, Jones, Essentials of Contemporary Management is available with Connect courseware. Connect is powered by adaptive technologies so students may learn more efficiently, retain more information, and achieve better outcomes.
NEW END OF CHAPTER DESIGN Updated and streamlined end-of-chapter design enhances classroom engagement and provides activities for faculty to use in class or as follow-up for student learning. Management in Action now focuses on Topics for Discussion and Action, Building Management Skills, Managing Ethically Exercise, and Be the Manager activities for classes to work through.
NEW RUNNING CASE - AIR APPARENT CASE STUDY A fictional startup in sustainable air conditioning, providing opportunities for students to apply theories and models to real-world management challenges. Written by Marc Boivin, University of Calgary. It also comes with the assignable multi choice questions and instructor manual within Connect
NEW DIVERSITY IN MANAGEMENT FEATURE Highlights how and why companies invest in diversity initiatives and explores their impact on management and workplaces.
NEW SEE YOURSELF IN THE PICTURE! FEATURE Encourages students to connect with concepts through relatable and familiar scenarios.
NEW EXAMPLES AND CONTENT COVERAGE The world has changed significantly since the last edition of this book, and so has the landscape of work and organizational management. This edition incorporates two transformative focuses: diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in business. These additions reflect how organizations are adapting to evolving societal expectations and technological advancements, providing students with a deeper understanding of how businesses navigate new challenges and opportunities.
NEW & UPDATED APPLICATION-BASED ACTIVITIES The Connect Application-Based Activities are highly interactive and automatically graded application- and analysis-based exercises wherein students immerse themselves in a business environment, analyze the situation, and apply their knowledge of business strategies. Students' progress from understanding basic concepts to assessing and solving complex, real-world scenarios.
NEW AI READER McGraw Hill's AI Reader provides students with an embedded AI learning tool that promotes active reading to drive meaningful engagements and conceptual understanding of course content, not just rote memorization. AI Reader allows instructors to maintain control over how students are using AI in their courses, with trusted materials and guardrails.
VIDEO CAPTURE POWERED BY GOREACT This exciting tool allows students to demonstrate presentation skills and practice critical thinking when providing peer feedback. Recordable Video Chat enables synchronous and asynchronous online presentations in your Organizational Behaviour classroom. With three customizable assignment types, easy grading tools, and a new AI Assist feature, this tool now offers real-time feedback on presentation structure, clarity, and delivery. Leverage this enhanced tool to boost student engagement and learning outcomes in online, in-person, and hybrid course delivery.
A BALANCED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FOCUS Jones offers an effective resource that discusses management theories - reinforced by strong pedagogical features such as real-life examples, cases, Management in Action(which is a full end of chapter learning resource), and tips for developing strong management skills and practices.
BRAND NEW INTEGRATED RUNNING CASE An integrated running case, AIR APPARENT, written by Marc Boivin from the University of Calgary, gives students the opportunity to apply all the theories and models examined in the text to the management challenges facing the owner/manager of a small business operating in a dynamic organizational environment, where all levels of managers face opportunities and threats.
RICH AND RELEVANT EXAMPLES Jones uses real-world examples and stories about managers and companies to drive home the applied lessons to students. Moreover, unlike boxed material in other products, Jones integrates feature boxes seamlessly into the text; they are an integral part of the learning experience, and not tacked on or isolated from the text itself. This is central to the pedagogical approach.
RELEVANCE AND SOCIAL IMPACT Jones makes management meaningful to students both through traditional means as well as through the adaptive reading experience found with Connect’s SmartBook. The Focus on the Social Economy feature box in each chapter profiles a social enterprise that has both the function of creating economic value common to traditional for-profit businesses and creating social impact common to non-profit and charitable organizations.
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SMARTBOOK SmartBook is McGraw Hill’s adaptive learning and reading resource. SmartBook prompts students with questions based on the material they are studying. By assessing individual answers, SmartBook learns what each student knows and identifies which topics they need to practise, giving each student a personalized learning experience and path to success. Connect's SmartBook provides more personalization, productivity, and accessibility to improve the teaching and learning experience for both instructors and students. Instructors now have greater ability to control the level, depth, and type of assignments based on their course syllabus. Available on mobile smart devices – with both online and offline access, Connect’s SmartBook enables students to study anywhere and anytime.
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