Essentials of Contemporary Management

by Jennifer M. George, Jennifer George, Jane Haddad

Jones/Haddad - Essentials of Contemporary Management , "Makes Management Real" for students. The sixth Canadian edition presents management in a way that makes its relevance obvious even to students who may lack exposure to a "real-life" management context. Jones relates management theory to real life examples and drives home the message that management matters. Management matters because it determines how well organizations perform, and because managers and organizations affect the lives of people who work inside and the people outside the organization, such as customers, communities, and shareholders.
Essentials of Contemporary Management , Sixth Canadian edition, provides a concise offering of current management theories and research. Through a variety of real world examples from small, medium, and large companies, students learn how those ideas are used by practicing managers. The organization of the Jones text follows the mainstream functional approach of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, but the content is flexible. The important themes of diversity, ethics, globalization, and information technology are integrated throughout with examples, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, personalities, and problems to provide this context.

Genres: Business, Management, Textbooks, College

480 pages, Paperback

First published April 11, 2003

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

[Stéphane Lalonde]

Livre à lire pour l'université.

[Pascale]

J'ai lu ce livre dans le cadre d'un cours de management pour MBA. Lecture très enrichissante pour les personnes qui souhaitent devenir de meilleurs gestionnaires.

[Cyndi]

Explanation were thorough in management analysis of corporations with tons of real life examples spotlighting individuals and corporations. The book did repeat certain material and could have made a few better links between concepts in chapters but for a textbook it was overall interesting and informative. The questions at the end of each section helped to put the information into use and create critical thinking skills to apply the material. The chapters did not seem to be in the correct order to build upon one another but all the information could be found in the book.

[Julie Stevenson]

The book was great! It gave excellent examples of real-time corporations and really brought home the lesson to the student. I achieved my Organizational Management certification!!

[Jimmy Loc]

i want to read it

[Cassie Kabrick]

The management snapshots at the beginning of each chapter are pretty interesting but again, typical textbook.

[CJ]

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