A Primer for Management with Infotrac (South-Western Foundations Series in Management) - Softcover

Dumler, Michael P.; Skinner, Steven J.

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ISBN 10: 0324271115 ISBN 13: 9780324271119

Publisher: South-Western Pub, 2004

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Part One: MANAGING AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 1. Management and Managers. 2. History of Management. 3. The Management Environment, Social Responsibility, and Ethics. 4. The Global Management Environment. Part Two: PLANNING. 5. Decision Making. 6. Planning. 7. Strategy. Part Three: ORGANIZING. 8. Organizational Structure and Design. 9. Job Analysis, Design, and Redesign. 10. Human Resource Management. Part Four: LEADING. 11. Individual Behavior. 12. Motivation. 13. Leadership. 14. Interpersonal and Organizational Communications. 15. Groups, Processes, and Teams in Organizations. Part Five: CONTROLLING. 16. Control Systems. 17. Managing Organizational Change and Development.

About the Author:

Steven J. Skinner is the Rosenthal Professor in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Management for over twenty years. He was previously on the faculty at Illinois State University and was formerly a research administrator for State Farm Insurance Companies. He has also consulted with a variety of large and small organizations. Dr. Skinner has authored or co-authored seven books, including the recently published High Performers: Recruiting and Retaining Top Employees (South-Western, 2004), part of South-Western's Professional Portfolio. Dr. Skinner's research has been published in a number of journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Risk and Insurance, and Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management. He has received the Mu Kappa Tau Award for the best article in Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management.

About this edition

• Publisher: South-Western Pub
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0324271115
• ISBN 13: 9780324271119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 117