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Contemporary Management 4th Edition with Student DVD & Premium OLC Content Card
Gareth R Jones, Jennifer M George
Edition: 4
ISBN: 0073049212
ISBN-13: 9780073049212
Publication Date: 2005-01-04
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 800


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Product Description
When first introduced, Contemporary Management, by Jones and George made a huge splash with its innovative voice, content, pedagogy, design, and package. The cutting-edge 4th Edition continues to redefine what principles of management texts should look, sound, and feel like. As an author team Gareth Jones and Jennifer George are uniquely qualified to write about both the strategic and organizational challenges managers face. No Management textbook author team today matches their combined research and text-writing experience. Contemporary Management is a comprehensive text that surveys the theoretical underpinnings of modern management thought and research. Through a variety of real world examples from small, medium, and large companies it shows the reader how those ideas are used by practicing managers. While the organization of this text follows the mainstream functional approach of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling its chapters can be used flexibly and instructors can organize their management course according to the format they are most comfortable with. One of the most popular features of the book has always been its focus on the "Manager as a Person," which discusses managers as real people with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and problems. In the 4th Edition, the authors expand on this theme by discussing the importance of management competencies- the specific set of skills, abilities, and experiences that gives one manager the ability to perform at a higher level than another in a specific context. The themes of diversity, ethics, and information technology have also been greatly expanded in the 4th Edition through chapters dedicated to each of these topics as well as in-text examples, photographs, "unboxed" stories, and the end-of-chapter material- all areas of importance that truly serve to bring to life the workplace realities that today’s student will encounter in the course of a career.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5

1) Shipped Slowly   [Rating: 2 out of 5]
I was told there was over night shipping on this book which I requested. When it did not show up the next day I checked with the shipping company and they said it was sent 2nd day air. I phone Amazon and they confirmed there was no over night shipping. If I knew there was no over night shipping from Amazon I would have purchased it from another source because I needed it the next day.

2) Good but expensive.   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I used this text while teaching an Introduction to Management class to undergraduates at SUNY. It is comprehensive, well produced, up-to-date and has a lot of engaging real world examples. However, it's very expensive.Strengths:- Business Week excerpts at the end of each chapter allow students to examine real companies and real managers- Case problems are pitched at the right level - short, but with enough content to make the students think- DVD has some excellent content, especially on the entrepreneurship chapter. Many "Hot Seat" segments depict provocative scenarios such as sexual harassment that engage students and stimulate discussion.- Case materials are integrated into the text instead of being presented in "boxes" that disturb the chapter flow.- Good material on women in management.- Well produced- Comprehensive: the only material I added was on problem-solving and analysis skills, and some extra depth in business strategy.Could be better:- The book lumps business strategy under "planning", which understates its importance. The boring material on business planning gets more space than the interesting topic of competitive strategy. The business strategy material focuses on SWOT analysis and (briefly) Porter's Five Forces model. I would have liked to see some material on the resource-based view - such as core competencies - which is intuitive enough for undergraduates.- The online test material is mostly multiple choice/ fill in the missing word, and in my view tests facts more than management concepts. I found this entirely inadequate and used none of it. I ended up writing a lot of short answer questions.- The authors use a strange selection of tools in the section on psychology. There is no mention of Myers-Briggs or Belbin, which are widely used in the real business world. - The text is very expensive. I felt guilty asking some students to pay this much.

3) Good 'nuff   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Used this book for a class. It is well organized and has plenty of thought-provoking exercizes. It presented ethics and morals as fluctuating things, based on the times and location - I don't agree with that stand. However, the book was good. The online material is awsome - good chapter notes, practice tests, and glossary.

4) Contemporary Management 4th Edition   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
The book was in very good condition and arrived just in time before classes began. Shipping was fast and the book was exactly what I needed.