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New edition of an introductory text covering the basics of a manager's job and of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Includes lots of pedagogical trappings--self-assessment exercises, assignments, boxed features. Expanded topics for this edition include work force diversity, managing a career, and entrepreneurship; added features include interviews with managers, ethical dilemma exercises, and "what would you do?" vignettes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book Description
Robbins and Coulter's best-selling text demonstrates the real-world applications of management concepts and makes management come alive by bringing real managers and readers together. As it successfully integrates the various functions of management, the book establishes a dialogue with managers from a variety of fields. The authors examine managerial issues concerning defining the manager's terrain, planning, organizing, leading and controlling. For managers of all kinds.

Book Info
Describes management theories with extensive examples & brings the experiences of management practice into focus from interviews with real managers. DLC: Management.

The publisher, Prentice Hall Business Publishing
Robbins/Coulter makes the management course come alive by bringing real managers and students together. This best selling text integrates the discipline of management and establishes a dialogue with managers from a variety of fields, with their new features managers respond and managers speak out.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

6E-7, Robbins, Stephen P., Coulter, Mary, Management, 7/E*Robbins and Coulter's best-selling book demonstrates the real-world applications of management concepts and makes management come alive by bringing real managers and readers together. As it successfully integrates the various functions of management, the book establishes a dialogue with managers from a variety of fieldsChapter-opening “A Managers Dilemma” vignettes introduce readers to real situations— faced by real managers, and chapter-ending “Real Managers Respond to Opening Dilemma” discussions explore successful resolutions—both using the concepts covered in each chapter. These chapters cover an introduction to management and organizations, management yesterday and today, organizational culture and environment, managing in a global environment, social responsibility and managerial ethics, managing entrepreneurial ventures, decision-making, managing change and innovation, understanding groups and teams, and much more.For all level managers in a variety of fields.

SYNOPSIS

Describing both theory and practice, each chapter opens with a management dilemma and closes with solutions to the dilemma from practicing managers. Interviews with managers reveal the diversity of managerial perspectives. Other learning features include modules encompassing skills of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, and video cases and questions. New to this edition are boxed readings on managing in an e-business world, material on managing entrepreneurial ventures, and Internet and team exercises. Robbins teaches at San Diego State University; Coulter at Southwest Missouri State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

FROM THE CRITICS

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New edition of an introductory text covering the basics of a manager's job and of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Includes lots of pedagogical trappings--self-assessment exercises, assignments, boxed features. Expanded topics for this edition include work force diversity, managing a career, and entrepreneurship; added features include interviews with managers, ethical dilemma exercises, and "what would you do?" vignettes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

ACCREDITATION

Stephen P. Robbins received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He previously worked for the Shell Oil Company and Reynolds Metals Company. Since completing his graduate studies, Dr. Robbins has taught at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Concordia University in Montreal, the University of Baltimore, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and San Diego State University. Dr. Robbins' research interests have focused on conflict, power, and politics in organizations, as well as the development of effective interpersonal skills. His articles on these and other topics have appeared in such journals as Business Horizons, the California Management Review, Business and Economic Perspectives, International Management, Management Review, Canadian Personnel and Industrial Relations, and the Journal of Management Education.

In recent years, Dr. Bobbins has been spending most of his professional time writing textbooks. In addition to Management, Seventh Edition, these include Organizational Behavior, Ninth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2001); Fundamentals of Management, Third Edition, with David DeCenzo (Prentice Hall, 2001); Supervision Today!, Third Edition, with David DeCenzo (Prentice Hall, 2001); Business Today (Harcourt, 2001); Human Resource Management, Sixth Edition, with David DeCenzo (Wiley, 1999); Managing Today!, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 2000); Essentials of Organizational Behavior, Sixth Edition (Prentice Hall, 2000); Training in Interpersonal Skills, Second Edition, with Philip Hunsaker (Prentice Hall, 1996); and Organization Theory, Third Edition (PrenticeHall, 1990). These books are used at more than a thousand U.S. colleges and universities, as well as hundreds of schools throughout Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Scandinavia, and Europe.

In Dr. Bobbins' "other life," he participates in masters' track competition. Since turning 50 in 1993, he has set numerous indoor and outdoor world sprint records. He's also won gold medals in World Veteran Games in 100m, 200m, and 400m. In 1995, Bobbins was named the year's outstanding age-40-and-over male track and field athlete by the Masters Track and Field Committee of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for athletes in the United States.