Management: A Practical Introduction, 2024 Release, empowers students to develop their career readiness. Developed to help students read and learn management with a purpose, it takes a student-centered approach. This is the first product to uniquely integrate a strategic career readiness theme throughout to address employers' concerns about students graduating without being career ready. It continues to engage students through practical and relevant application of theory, current examples, imaginative writing, and resources that work. It is also the first product to offer instructors a comprehensive Teaching Resource Manual (TRM). 

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
  1 The Exceptional Manager What You Do, How You Do It 
  2 Management Theory Essential Background for the Successful Manager 

PART 2: THE ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGEMENT 
  3 The Manager’s Changing Work Environment and Ethical Responsibilities Doing the Right Thing 
     Learning Module 1 Shared Value and Sustainable Development A New Way to Think about Leading and Managing 
  4 Global Management Managing across Borders 

PART 3: PLANNING 
  5 Planning The Foundation of Successful Management 
  6 Strategic Management How Exceptional Managers Realize a Grand Design 
     Learning Module 2 Entrepreneurship 
  7 Individual and Group Decision Making How Managers Make Things Happen
 
PART 4: ORGANIZING 
  8 Organizational Culture and Structure Drivers of Strategic Implementation 
  9 Human Resource Management Getting the Right People for Managerial Success 
 10 Organizational Change and Innovation Lifelong Challenges for the Exceptional Manager 

PART 5: LEADING 
 11 Managing Individual Differences and Behavior Supervising People as People 
 12 Motivating Employees Achieving Superior Performance in the Workplace 
 13 Groups and Teams Increasing Cooperation, Reducing Conflict 
 14 Power, Influence, and Leadership From Becoming a Manager to Becoming a Leader 
 15 Interpersonal and Organizational Communication Mastering the Exchange of Information 

PART 6: CONTROLLING 
 16 Control Systems and Quality Management Techniques for Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness