The second EMEA edition of Richard L. Daft?s popular textbook, Management, has been fully updated to ensure that new European, Middle East and African content provides students with a practical approach to key concepts and theories with regional examples to enrich their learning. A wide range of inspiring real-world features are revealed as the student is guided through and prepared for the various challenges facing a modern manager.
This title is available with MindTap, a flexible online learning solution that you can customize to suit your specific course needs, and which provides students with all the tools they need to succeed including an interactive eReader and a wide range of assignments, practice questions, scenarios, and cases to further entrench key concepts, boost confidence, develop critical thinking skills and prepare them for the workplace.
Part 1 Introduction to Management
1Introduction to management
2The evolution of management thinking
Part 1 Integrative case: James Dyson and the electric vehicle revolution
Part 2 Managing External and Internal Environment
3The organization and corporate culture
4The dynamics of alternative organizational forms
5Managing in a global environment
6Managing ethics and social corporate governance
Part 2 Integrative case: Rehumanizing Poult biscuits: empowering factory workers
Part 3 Planning
7Managerial planning and goal setting
8Strategy formulation and execution
9Managerial decision-making
Part 3 Integrative case: The European Commission
Part 4 Organizing
10Managing small business start-ups
11Managing change and innovation
12Managing corporate diversity
Part 4 Integrative case: Herm?s
Part 5 Leading
13Leadership
14Managing human resources
15Managing communication
16Leading teams
Part 5 Integrative case: Unjani Clinics
Part 6 Controlling
17Managing quality and performance
