Essentials Of Contemporary Management 8th Edition by Gareth R. Jones 9781265685768 [ZZ] *127d

Paperback, McGraw

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.