Management : Leading & Collaborating in the Competitive World - Softcover

Bateman, Thomas; Snell, Scott

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9780071220620: Management : Leading & Collaborating in the Competitive World

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ISBN 10: 0071220623 ISBN 13: 9780071220620

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010

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Bateman and Snell’s Management: Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World is a text with a fully modernized functional approach. This text is maintaining the four traditional functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, while modernizing and re-visioning the concepts as delivering strategic value, building a dynamic organization, mobilizing people, and learning and changing. Bateman/Snell’ results-oriented approach is a unique hallmark of this textbook. In this ever more competitive environment there are five essential types of performance, on which the organization beats, equals, or loses to the competition which are cost, quality, speed, innovation and service. These five performance dimensions, when done well, deliver value to the customer and competitive advantage to you and your organization. Throughout the text Bateman & Snell remind students of these five dimensions and their impact on the “bottom line” with marginal icons contributing to the leadership and collaboration theme, which is the key to successful management. People working with one another, rather than against, is essential to competitive advantage.

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A new economy is emerging of E-commerce and the Internet, but the fundamentals are still the same. This theme will be evident in the 5th edition.
The four classical functions (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling) are retained but also reconceptualized for the new era as delivering strategic value (planning), building a dynamic organization (organizing), mobilizing people (leading), and learning and changing (controlling).
Chapter 1 is new and discusses the Internet, globalization, knowledge management, and collaboration across boundaries, while retaining coverage of the management functions and competitive themes. It concludes with a section titled "You and Your Career", personalizing the chapter and setting a personal tone for the book.
A student CD-ROM is now included with every, new student copy of the text. The CD contains self-assessment exercises, flash technology, as well as PowerPoint.
Five integrating cases one at the end of each part reinforce principles learned in previous chapters and bring theories to life with well-known companies.
"From the Pages of Business Week": highlight recent Business Week articles in each chapter.
Opening Quotes: provide a thought-provoking preview of chapter material. The quotes are from people like Peter Drucker (on management), Jack Welch (on strategy), Henry David Thoreau (on ethics), Julius Caesar (on leadership), and Charles Kettering (on change and the future).
Learning Objectives: open each chapter and identify what students will learn by reading and studying the chapter.
Setting the Stage: the chapter opening vignette describes an actual organizational situation and provides a rich introductory example and practical application of the chapter topic.
Experiential Exercises, which appear in each chapter, encourage students to apply the theories they have just learned.
Boxed features: describe current examples and controversial issues and are found throughout each chapter.

About the Author:

Thomas Bateman earned his B.A. from Miami University, and his Ph.D. in business administration from Indiana University. He is Bank of America professor and management area coordinator in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, teaching leadership and organizational behavior. Dr. Bateman taught at Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina and for two years in Europe at the Institute of Management Development, a world leader in design and delivery of executive education. He is an active management researcher, writer, and consultant, and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals. His articles appear in professional journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Bateman's research interests center on proactive behavior by employees at all levels, with a recent turn toward scientists and public leadership.

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