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Business Essentials

Buch | Hardcover
696 Seiten
2016 | 11th edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-13-412996-9 (ISBN)
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The recent events in domestic and global economies are presenting unprecedented challenges, excitement, and disappointments for business-and a need for a change in Introduction to Business courses and texts. Business Essentials captures the widespread significance of these developments and presents their implications on businesses today.



The Eleventh Edition includes new real-world examples and research findings, helping students to see how entrepreneurs are putting into practice the concepts that they are learning, and making this text the most current and relevant one available on the market today.



KEY TOPICS: The U.S. Business Environment; Understanding Business Ethics and Social Responsibility; Entrepreneurship, New Ventures, and Business Ownership; Understanding the Global Context of Business; Managing the Business; Organizing the Business; Operations Management and Quality; Employee Behavior and Motivation; Leadership and Decision Making; Human Resource Management and Labor Relations; Marketing Processes and Consumer Behavior; Developing and Pricing Products; Distributing and Promoting Products; Information Technology (IT) for Business; The Role of Accountants and Accounting Information; Understanding Money and the Role of Banking; Managing Business Finances; Risk Management; The Legal Context of Business; Managing Your Personal Finances; Unions and Labor Management



MARKET: For business managers and executives, and also entrepreneurs and others interested in business relations.

Ronald J. Ebert is Emeritus Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia where he lectures in the Management Department and serves as advisor to students and student organizations. Professor Ebert draws on more than 30 years of teaching experience at such schools as Sinclair College, University of Washington, University of Missouri, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania), and Consortium International University (Italy). His consulting alliances have included such firms as Mobay Corporation, Kraft Foods, Oscar Mayer, Atlas Powder, and John Deere. He has designed and conducted management development programs for such diverse clients as the American Public Power Association, the U.S. Savings and Loan League, and the Central Missouri Manufacturing Training Consortium. His experience as a practitioner has fostered an advocacy for integrating concepts with best business practices in business education. The five business books he has coauthored have been translated into Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Malaysian, Bahasa Indonesian, and Romanian languages. Professor Ebert has served as the Editor of the Journal of Operations Management. He is a Past-President and Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. He has served as consultant and external evaluator for Quantitative Reasoning for Business Studies, an introduction-to-business project sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Ricky Griffin joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1981. During his career at Texas A&M he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in management, organizational behavior, human resource management, and international business. Professor Griffin's research interests include workplace aggression and violence, organizational security, workplace culture, and leadership. His work has been published in such journals as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Journal of Management. He served as Associate Editor and then as Editor of Journal of Management. In addition, Professor Griffin has also authored or coauthored several leading textbooks and coedited three scholarly books. His books have been used at more than 500 colleges and universities on five continents and have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Chinese. He has served the Academy of Management as Chair of the Organizational Behavior Division and as Program Chair of the Research Methods Division. He has served as President of the Southwest Division of the Academy of Management and on the Board of Directors of the Southern Management Association. Professor Griffin is a Fellow of both the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association. He has also won several awards for research and has been supported by more than $400,000 in federal research funding. Professor Griffin has served as Director of the Center for Human Resource Management and Head of the Department of Management at Texas A&M University. He has also served as Executive Associate Dean and Interim Dean at the Mays Business School.

Part 1: The Contemporary Business World

1. The U.S. Business Environment

2. Understanding Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

3. Entrepreneurship, New Ventures, and Business Ownership

4. Understanding the Global Context of Business



Part 2: Managing the Business

5. Managing the Business

6. Organizing the Business

7. Operations Management and Quality



Part 3: People in Organizations

8. Employee Behavior and Motivation

9. Leadership and Decision Making

10. Human Resource Management and Labor Relations



Part 4: Principles of Marketing: Building Relationships with Customers for Competitive Advantage

11. Marketing Processes and Consumer Behavior

12. Developing and Pricing Products

13. Distributing and Promoting Products



Part 5: Managing Information for Better Business Decisions

14. Information Technology (IT) for Business

15. The Role of Accountants and Accounting Information



Part 6: The Financial System and Issues in Financial Management

16. Understanding Money and the Role of Banking

17. Managing Business Finances



Appendices

Appendix I: Risk Management

Appendix II: The Legal Context of Business

Appendix III: Managing Your Personal Finances

Appendix IV: Unions and Labor Management

Glossary

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 10 x 10 mm
Gewicht 1560 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 0-13-412996-2 / 0134129962
ISBN-13 978-0-13-412996-9 / 9780134129969
Zustand Neuware
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