ABOUT THE BOOK

This book is especially focused on the future of management education by identifying and describing emerging elements and examples of the new management paradigm. Materials in the book include the following. Chapter 1 introduces the emerging management paradigm, including the growing importance of leadership and new management competencies needed to thrive in today’s business world. Chapter 2 describes the learning organisation and examines it as an extension of historical development of management of organisations. The foundations of organisational behavior have been expanded into chapter 14, with topics including personality types, job satisfaction and organisational commitment, the effects of stress and person-job fit. This builds on the human resources focus of Chapter 13, including coverage of diversity issues. The chapter sequence in Management is organised around the management functions of planning organising, leading and controlling. These four functions effectively encompass both management research and real-life characteristics of the manager’s job. Part One introduces the world of management, including the nature of management, the emerging management paradigm, the learning organisation and historical perspectives on management. Part Two examines the environments of management and organisations. Part Three present chapters on planning, including organisational goal setting and planning, strategy formulation and implementation, and the decision-making process. Part Four focuses on orgnising processes. Part Five is devoted to leadership. Part Six describes the controlling functions of management, including basic principles of quality improvement, the design of control systems, information technology, and techniques for control of operations management.