Principles of Management

by David S. Bright, Anastasia H. Cortes, Eva Hartmann, K. Praveen Parboteeah, Jon L. Pierce, Monique Reece, Amit Shah, Siri Terjesen, Joseph Weiss, Margaret A. White, Donald G. Gardner, Jason Lambert, Laura M. Leduc, Joy Leopold, Jeffrey Muldoon and James S. O’Rourke

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Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.

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Adapted from Principles of Management by David S. Bright, Anastasia H. Cortes, Eva Hartmann, K. Praveen Parboteeah, Jon L. Pierce, Monique Reece, Amit Shah, Siri Terjesen, Joseph Weiss, Margaret A. White, Donald G. Gardner, Jason Lambert, Laura M. Leduc, Joy Leopold, Jeffrey Muldoon, and James S. O’Rourke, published by OpenStax (Rice University) under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Access the original for free at https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-management. Changes: converted to CuraCourse lessons, with interactive practice added.

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Preface1 page
1. Preface
1Managing and Performing4 pages
1. Introduction
2. 1.1What Do Managers Do?
3. 1.2The Roles Managers Play
4. 1.3Major Characteristics of the Manager's Job
2Managerial Decision-Making7 pages
1. Introduction
2. 2.1Overview of Managerial Decision-Making
3. 2.2How the Brain Processes Information to Make Decisions: Reflective and Reactive Systems
4. 2.3Programmed and Nonprogrammed Decisions
5. 2.4Barriers to Effective Decision-Making
6. 2.5Improving the Quality of Decision-Making
7. 2.6Group Decision-Making
3The History of Management8 pages
1. Introduction
2. 3.1The Early Origins of Management
3. 3.2The Italian Renaissance
4. 3.3The Industrial Revolution
5. 3.4Taylor-Made Management
6. 3.5Administrative and Bureaucratic Management
7. 3.6Human Relations Movement
8. 3.7Contingency and System Management
4External and Internal Organizational Environments and Corporate Culture7 pages
1. Introduction
2. 4.1The Organization's External Environment
3. 4.2External Environments and Industries
4. 4.3Organizational Designs and Structures
5. 4.4The Internal Organization and External Environments
6. 4.5Corporate Cultures
7. 4.6Organizing for Change in the 21st Century
5Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, and Sustainability9 pages
1. Introduction
2. 5.1Ethics and Business Ethics Defined
3. 5.2Dimensions of Ethics: The Individual Level
4. 5.3Ethical Principles and Responsible Decision-Making
5. 5.4Leadership: Ethics at the Organizational Level
6. 5.5Ethics, Corporate Culture, and Compliance
7. 5.6Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
8. 5.7Ethics around the Globe
9. 5.8Emerging Trends in Ethics, CSR, and Compliance
6International Management8 pages
1. Introduction
2. 6.1Importance of International Management
3. 6.2Hofstede's Cultural Framework
4. 6.3The GLOBE Framework
5. 6.4Cultural Stereotyping and Social Institutions
6. 6.5Cross-Cultural Assignments
7. 6.6Strategies for Expanding Globally
8. 6.7The Necessity of Global Markets
7Entrepreneurship9 pages
1. Introduction
2. 7.1Entrepreneurship
3. 7.2Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs
4. 7.3Small Business
5. 7.4Start Your Own Business
6. 7.5Managing a Small Business
7. 7.6The Large Impact of Small Business
8. 7.7The Small Business Administration
9. 7.8Trends in Entrepreneurship and Small-Business Ownership
8Strategic Analysis: Understanding a Firm’s Competitive Environment8 pages
1. Introduction
2. 8.1Gaining Advantages by Understanding the Competitive Environment
3. 8.2Using SWOT for Strategic Analysis
4. 8.3A Firm's External Macro Environment: PESTEL
5. 8.4A Firm's Micro Environment: Porter's Five Forces
6. 8.5The Internal Environment
7. 8.6Competition, Strategy, and Competitive Advantage
8. 8.7Strategic Positioning
9The Strategic Management Process: Achieving and Sustaining Competitive Advantage7 pages
1. Introduction
2. 9.1Strategic Management
3. 9.2Firm Vision and Mission
4. 9.3The Role of Strategic Analysis in Formulating a Strategy
5. 9.4Strategic Objectives and Levels of Strategy
6. 9.5Planning Firm Actions to Implement Strategies
7. 9.6Measuring and Evaluating Strategic Performance
10Organizational Structure and Change4 pages
1. Introduction
2. 10.1Organizational Structures and Design
3. 10.2Organizational Change
4. 10.3Managing Change
11Human Resource Management7 pages
1. Introduction
2. 11.1An Introduction to Human Resource Management
3. 11.2Human Resource Management and Compliance
4. 11.3Performance Management
5. 11.4Influencing Employee Performance and Motivation
6. 11.5Building an Organization for the Future
7. 11.6Talent Development and Succession Planning
12Diversity in Organizations8 pages
1. Introduction
2. 12.1An Introduction to Workplace Diversity
3. 12.2Diversity and the Workforce
4. 12.3Diversity and Its Impact on Companies
5. 12.4Challenges of Diversity
6. 12.5Key Diversity Theories
7. 12.6Benefits and Challenges of Workplace Diversity
8. 12.7Recommendations for Managing Diversity
13Leadership10 pages
1. Introduction
2. 13.1The Nature of Leadership
3. 13.2The Leadership Process
4. 13.3Leader Emergence
5. 13.4The Trait Approach to Leadership
6. 13.5Behavioral Approaches to Leadership
7. 13.6Situational (Contingency) Approaches to Leadership
8. 13.7Substitutes for and Neutralizers of Leadership
9. 13.8Transformational, Visionary, and Charismatic Leadership
10. 13.9Leadership Needs in the 21st Century
14Work Motivation for Performance5 pages
1. Introduction
2. 14.1Motivation: Direction and Intensity
3. 14.2Content Theories of Motivation
4. 14.3Process Theories of Motivation
5. 14.4Recent Research on Motivation Theories
15Managing Teams7 pages
1. Introduction
2. 15.1Teamwork in the Workplace
3. 15.2Team Development Over Time
4. 15.3Things to Consider When Managing Teams
5. 15.4Opportunities and Challenges to Team Building
6. 15.5Team Diversity
7. 15.6Multicultural Teams
16Managerial Communication6 pages
1. Introduction
2. 16.1The Process of Managerial Communication
3. 16.2Types of Communications in Organizations
4. 16.3Factors Affecting Communications and the Roles of Managers
5. 16.4Managerial Communication and Corporate Reputation
6. 16.5The Major Channels of Management Communication Are Talking, Listening, Reading, and Writing
17Organizational Planning and Controlling9 pages
1. Introduction
2. 17.1Is Planning Important
3. 17.2The Planning Process
4. 17.3Types of Plans
5. 17.4Goals or Outcome Statements
6. 17.5Formal Organizational Planning in Practice
7. 17.6Employees' Responses to Planning
8. 17.7Management by Objectives: A Planning and Control Technique
9. 17.8The Control- and Involvement-Oriented Approaches to Planning and Controlling
18Management of Technology and Innovation8 pages
1. Introduction
2. 18.1MTI—Its Importance Now and In the Future
3. 18.2Developing Technology and Innovation
4. 18.3External Sources of Technology and Innovation
5. 18.4Internal Sources of Technology and Innovation
6. 18.5Management Entrepreneurship Skills for Technology and Innovation
7. 18.6Skills Needed for MTI
8. 18.7Managing Now for Future Technology and Innovation

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