What do you think?
Rate this book
Understanding Management 6th Edition Instructor's Edition
UNDERSTANDING MANAGEMENT, Sixth Edition provides an engaging survey of modern management practice that seamlessly integrates classic and contemporary principles. Rather than concentrating on large global enterprises, the text focuses on dynamic small to mid-sized local businesses and entrepreneurial issues, giving students valuable real-world insights and practical skills they can readily apply when beginning or continuing their careers. To help students deepen their understanding and hone their skills, numerous skill-building and application exercises appear in every chapter. UNDERSTANDING MANAGEMENT also features a streamlined format and impressive ancillary package that make it affordable, flexible, well-suited to any course, and effective for students of diverse backgrounds and interests.
1 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1995
8 people are currently reading
108 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
October 11, 2009
This was not my favorite book for learning management. I believe that there are much better leadership examples than the music industry and Sponge Bob. I made it all the way through and there were certainly tidbits here and there that were helpful and brought better understanding, but overall I think there are much better text books out there than this one.
December 25, 2012
A good basic textbook on management. Includes wide range of fundamental theories on organizations, motivation, leadership and so on and therefore takes ages to read through. An easy book to understand if you just have the patience to go through the whole thing.
April 13, 2010
Typical educational text. Content was good but the presentation was horrible. No excitement. Nothing to keep the reader interested.
September 4, 2018
This book covers the content just nice and it's quite easy to be understood. But it has merely very little, if any impact on day-to-day life, especially as a nonprofessional manager.
March 31, 2022
Hello all.
First I want to write a kick myself in the butt confession. I went to abebooks to buy this for school because it was cheaper by $20.00 bucks. BUT I didn't read the description. It is a black and white cheap international version you can get on ebay for $45.00 Shipping included and I paid 64.97 plus shipping so that amounts to overpaying for the book $25.00. Tack onto that no one will buy it an international version, unless you bury the fact it is an international version in the description and not in the title, like a dishonest seller, because no one reads the description for text books. just name, author, publication date and edition, meaning I can't resell when I am finished with it. Children. Don't live by my mistakes----just learn from them.
The book is boring. Poorly written and worse when in flat black and white. The print in international versions is VERY small. VERY small. You will need a cheap pair of reading glasses or to hold the book to your nose to read. The endnotes and study guides/questions at the end of the chapter will require a magnifying glass. The reading glasses didn't even work. The group learning exercises and action exercises need to be rethought; unless your instructor doesn't bother and you don't put in the added effort.....so who will see them? And that is just what I believe the author thought when they put little effort into creating them. The ideas are already outdated and about a decade behind the times in a global economy and stay at home work environments for employees and staff. Someone needs to get on the stick and introduce this book to evolution of the times.
First I want to write a kick myself in the butt confession. I went to abebooks to buy this for school because it was cheaper by $20.00 bucks. BUT I didn't read the description. It is a black and white cheap international version you can get on ebay for $45.00 Shipping included and I paid 64.97 plus shipping so that amounts to overpaying for the book $25.00. Tack onto that no one will buy it an international version, unless you bury the fact it is an international version in the description and not in the title, like a dishonest seller, because no one reads the description for text books. just name, author, publication date and edition, meaning I can't resell when I am finished with it. Children. Don't live by my mistakes----just learn from them.
The book is boring. Poorly written and worse when in flat black and white. The print in international versions is VERY small. VERY small. You will need a cheap pair of reading glasses or to hold the book to your nose to read. The endnotes and study guides/questions at the end of the chapter will require a magnifying glass. The reading glasses didn't even work. The group learning exercises and action exercises need to be rethought; unless your instructor doesn't bother and you don't put in the added effort.....so who will see them? And that is just what I believe the author thought when they put little effort into creating them. The ideas are already outdated and about a decade behind the times in a global economy and stay at home work environments for employees and staff. Someone needs to get on the stick and introduce this book to evolution of the times.
May 26, 2025
As far as textbooks go, this one is not too bad. Of course, there is a ton of superfluous material seemingly meant to justify the book's length. The actual bulk of the material is pretty interesting, although some of it seems like fancy jargon names for seemingly normal things. One thing I found funny was that at some page in the 600s it defined what a budget was. Like, I know it has to define it because it is an introductory textbook, but damn I hope anyone getting to page 600 of this book knows what a budget is beforehand.
February 3, 2018
I read the 10th edition and it was packed full of great information.
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews