Essentials of Contemporary Management

by Gareth R. Jones, Jennifer M. George

All Textbooks > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Management Textbook Jones and George are dedicated to the challenge of "Making It Real" for students. The authors present management in a way that makes its relevance obvious even to students who might lack exposure to a "real-life" management context. Their goal is to relate management theory to real life examples to drive home the message that management matters both because it determines how well organizations perform, and because managers and organizations affect the lives of people who work inside them and people outside the organization, such as customers, communities, and shareholders.. . Essentials of Management concisely surveys current management theories and research. Through a variety of real world examples from small, medium, and large companies the reader learns how those ideas are used by practicing managers. The organization of this text follows the mainstream functional approach of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling; but the content is flexible and encourages instructors to use the organization they are most comfortable with. . . One of the most popular features of the book has always been its focus on the "Manager as a Person," which discusses managers as real people with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and problems. In the 2nd Edition, the authors expand on this theme by discussing the importance of management competencies -the specific set of skills, abilities, and experiences that gives one manager the ability to perform at a higher level than another in a specific context. The themes of diversity, ethics, globalization, and information technology -all areas of importance that make up the workplace realities that todays student will encounter in the course of a career- have also been greatly expanded in the 2nd Edition in the text, photographs, "unboxed" stories, and the end-of-chapter material

Genres: Business, Textbooks, Management, College

Paperback

First published April 11, 2003

About the author

Gareth R. Jones is a Professor of Management in the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University. He received his B.A. in Economics/Psychology and his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Lancaster, U.K. He previously held teaching and research appointments at the University Warwick, Michigan State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is a frequent visitor and speaker at universities in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

He specializes in strategic management and organizational theory and is well known for his research that applies transaction cost analysis to explain many forms of strategic and organizational behaviour. He is currently interested in strategy process, competitive advantage, and information technology issues. He is also investigating the relationships between ethics, trust, and organizational culture and studying the role of affect in the strategic decision-making process.

He has published many articles in leading journals of the field and his recent work has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations. An article on the role of information technology on many aspects of organizational functioning was recently published in the Journal of Management. One of his articles won the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award, and he is one of the most prolific authors in the Academy of Management Review. He is or has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and Management Inquiry.

Gareth Jones has taken his academic knowledge and used it to craft leading textbooks in management, and three other major areas in the management discipline: organizational behaviour, organizational theory, and strategic management. His books are widely recognized for their innovative, contemporary content, and for the clarity with which they communicate complex, real-world issues to students. He comes from a long line of educators and is happy that his two children, Nicholas who is 10, and Julia who is 9, seem to show similar interests, as they are always trying to teach him new things.

Reviews

[Stéphane Lalonde · Rating 4 out of 5]

Livre à lire pour l'université.

[Pascale · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

i want to read it

[Cassie Kabrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[CJ]

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