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ncorporates the latest management concepts and three new chapters on Corporate Culture, Management and Entrepreneurship and Controlling, Information, and Technology. It has a unique focus of developing student’s management skills in all major areas of management. Each chapter opens by identifying a specific management skill on which the chapter focuses and the remainder of the chapter contains a number of purposefully placed features designed to help the readers develop that skill. In sum, this carefully crafted and thoroughly updated text presents valuable management concepts and would be of great use to undergraduate and postgraduate students of management as well as to practicing managers. Table of Contents Preface About the Authors PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO MODERN MANAGEMENT 1. Introducing Modern Management: Concepts and Skills 2. Managing: History and Current Thinking PART 2 MODERN MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES 3. Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics 4. Management and Diversity 5. Managing in the Global Arena 6. Management and Entrepreneurship PART 3 PLANNING 7. Principles of Planning 8. Making Decisions 9. Strategic Planning 10. Plans and Planning Tools PART 4 ORGANIZING 11. Fundamentals of Organizing 12. Responsibility, Authority, and Delegation 13. Human Resource Management 14. Organizational Change PART 5 INFLUENCING 15. Influencing and Communication 16. Leadership 17. Motivation 18. Groups and Teams 19. Managing Organization Culture 20. Encouraging Creativity and Innovation PART 6 CONTROLLING 21. Controlling, Information, and Technology 22. Production and Control Exploring Your Management Skills Answers Glossary Endnotes Photo Credits Name Index Subject Index