Contemporary Management

by Jennifer M. George

This comprehensive text surveys the theoretical underpinnings of modern management thought and research. Through a variety of real-world examples from small, medium, and large companies, readers are shown how those ideas are used by practicing managers. The organization of this text follows the mainstream functional approach of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling with a slight shift of the functional paradigm. The text is written to compete directly at the university-level market in terms of length, level of presentation, and breadth of coverage.

Genres: Management, Business, Textbooks, Nonfiction

672 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Jennifer M. George is the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. She received her B.A. in Psychology/Sociology from Wesleyan University, her M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, and her Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior from New York University. Prior to joining the faculty at Rice University, she was a Professor in the Department of Management at Texas A&M University.

She specializes in Organizational Behaviour and is well known for her research on mood and emotion in the workplace, their determinants, and their effects on various individual and group level work outcomes. She is the author of many articles in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Bulletin. One of her papers won the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Division Outstanding Competitive Paper Award and another paper won the Human Relations Best Paper Award. She is, or has been, on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Managerial Issues, was a consulting editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and is a member of the SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series editorial board. She is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior. Professor George is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Reviews

[Federico DN]

More Administration.

Something I read for Administration classes during University.

More ZzZzZz.

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PERSONAL NOTE :
[2007] [805p] [University] [Not Recommendable]
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Más Administración.

Algo que leí para clases de Administración durante la Universidad.

Más ZzZzZz.

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NOTA PERSONAL :
[2007] [805p] [Universidad] [No Recomendable]
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[Wild Flower 🌸]

Do we even rate academic books?? I don’t know based on what to rate it to be honest..

I am going to rate it by how easy the book itself made the course for me. Did it simplify? Explained much? Didn’t explain enough and all.

To honest it really did help, the course slides didn’t offer as much as this book did, loved how after every definition of a concept that is described in a long paragraph, the keyword is taken out of the paragraph with its definition and is listed down beneath the paragraph. Which for me it helped me to differentiate between the example explained in the paragraph and the actual meaning of the concept 5 out of 5 for that part.

But I think speaking of it from my POV as a student who had to study the book for academic purposes, I don’t think I enjoyed it or read it as it was supposed to be read, since many concepts in the book the instructor didn’t bother on mentioning but he would tell us to read the book and try to understand it through the book only, and again I don’t think the book did any less of a job to explain it properly, it was just the experience I went through that effects my overall feeling towards this book, nothing on the book directly.

[Muhammed Fathi]

Amazing

[Alick Chirwa]

nice one

[Reynolds]

Demasiado caro para comprarlo en físico en Argentina, pero acá me tienen, con un pedazo de papel en la mochila rompiéndome la espalda. Pero al menos es ligero... de leer.

[Bek's]

Can you really review a text book?


Has good examples, but lacking substance

[Ahmed Safwat]

لا أفضل قراءة الكتب المقررة :)

[Mona]

nice

[Imanuel]

good

[Mohamed Elezaby]

contemporary management

[James]

Not a great textbook.

[Nabeela]

Contemporary management is good book to be read at scholary level of education

[Kara Rochester Garcia]

Solid textbook. Not dreadful to read.

[Maha Hanno]

good book
recommended

[Qosai Khalid]

I red most of the book when I took a MGT course at the university when doing while doing my master's.