Today's students are tomorrow's leaders and managers. The Management, Fifth Canadian Edition WileyPLUS course helps students discover their true potential and accept personal responsibility for developing career skills to become future leaders in the workplace. New content on topics like disruption, Big Data, AI, machine learning, and sustainability, plus thought-provoking exercises give students a fundamental understanding of today's world of management while urging them to reflect on their own behavior and decision-making processes.
Management provides exciting new student engagement features on key themes of Analysis, Ethics, Choices, Insight, and Wisdom to attract learners' attention and prompt additional reflection, while fresh author videos, updated video cases accompanying each chapter, and other digital assets bring managerial theory to life. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand and apply management principles, have developed concrete skills for career readiness, gained confidence in critical thinking, and embraced lifelong learning to ensure professional success.
This is a uni textbook, but a compelling and revelatory one. I learned a whole bunch of things about the fine art of management I wouldn't have considered in a million years. Of course, it's mostly arid reading.
Managerial concepts and theories. The book helps in understanding the fundamentals of planning, leading, organizing, and controlling. Also provides information on the changing nature of communication due to technology. There is a lot of focus on ethics. This book emphasizes in understanding the importance of management in critical economic situations.
I'm biased because this was an assigned book for a required course. However, much of the language in this book sounds like a Dilbert satire of management-speak.