For skills focused Principles of Management courses, our Robbins/DeCenzo text is the best-selling brief paperback that gives students the better tools to practice management skills. Features + Benefits
For Principles of Management courses that requires a brief and/or skills focused text.
Robbins/DeCenzo is the best-selling brief paperback text that gives students more depth and breadth of practical tools to practice their management skills (Managemers Workshop) than any other textbook.
How do your students learn most effectively? How do they sharpen their practical management skills?
Management Workshop- Step-by-step instructions at the end of each chapter guide students through practical skills exercises i.e. experiential exercises to develop team building skills; cases to build diagnostic, analytical and decision-making skills; topical writing assignments to enhance writing skills; Internet search exercises to develop Internet research skills. (i.e. pp. 144-146).
-Helps students build practical skills they will need to become an effective manager.
How do you engage students with the material? Are they motivated to study this material when they arrive in class?
NEW: In-text Self-Assessments- allow students to assess their knowledge, beliefs, feelings, and actions with regard to a wide range of personal skills, abilities, and interests. In addition to the in-text assessments (i.e. p. 135), we offer the Prentice Hall Self-Assessment Library 3.0 for additional Self-Assessments (total 51) with the text.
-Motivates students to learn the material by first grabbing their attention by having them learn something abou themselves.
-Increases student's self-awareness of who they are and how they interact with others
-Helps students retain and apply theoretical concepts. Students will better understand management ,as well as how to succeed in life and in their job.
OTHER POINTS OF DIFFERENCE
How are your currently measuring your Principles of Management students to ensure that learning took place?
NEW: Pre- and Post-Tests allow you to assess students' comprehension of topics covered in the text. These assessments are located in OneKey.
What are some current topics of importance that you want to make sure you cover in your course?
NEW: Enhancing Your Skill in Ethical Decision Making - At the end of each section students are put in the role of a manager making decisions about current ethical issues. This exercise comes to life as students log in their OneKey course and practice this skill in an interactive environment.
-Help students understand the ethical challenges they'll face as managers!
NEW: Diversity Perspectives - At the end of each section students are put the role of a manager making decisions about managing a changing workforce. Students are prompted to visit their OneKey course to practice their decision-making skills related to age, gender, or ethnic diversity in an interactive environment.
-Helps students understand the value and challenges of managing a diverse workforce.
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Managers and Management
History Module The Historical Roots of Contemporary Management Practices
2. The Management Environment
PART II: PLANNING
3. Foundations of Planning
4. Foundations of Decision Making
Quantitative Module Quantitative Decision-Making Aids
PART III: ORGANIZING
5. Basic Organization Designs
6. Staffing and Human Resource Management
Career Module Building Your Career
7. Managing Change, Stress, and Innovation
PART IV: LEADING
8. Foundations of Individual and Group Behavior
9. Understanding Work Teams
10. Motivating and Rewarding Employees
11. Leadership and Trust
12. Communication and Interpersonal Skills
PART V: CONTROLLING
13. Foundations of Control
14. Operations Management
For Principles of Management courses that requires a brief and/or skills focused text.
Robbins/DeCenzo is the best-selling brief paperback text that gives students more depth and breadth of practical tools to practice their management skills (Managemers Workshop) than any other textbook.
How do your students learn most effectively? How do they sharpen their practical management skills?
Management Workshop- Step-by-step instructions at the end of each chapter guide students through practical skills exercises i.e. experiential exercises to develop team building skills; cases to build diagnostic, analytical and decision-making skills; topical writing assignments to enhance writing skills; Internet search exercises to develop Internet research skills. (i.e. pp. 144-146).
-Helps students build practical skills they will need to become an effective manager.
How do you engage students with the material? Are they motivated to study this material when they arrive in class?
NEW: In-text Self-Assessments- allow students to assess their knowledge, beliefs, feelings, and actions with regard to a wide range of personal skills, abilities, and interests. In addition to the in-text assessments (i.e. p. 135), we offer the Prentice Hall Self-Assessment Library 3.0 for additional Self-Assessments (total 51) with the text.
-Motivates students to learn the material by first grabbing their attention by having them learn something abou themselves.
-Increases student's self-awareness of who they are and how they interact with others
-Helps students retain and apply theoretical concepts. Students will better understand management ,as well as how to succeed in life and in their job.
OTHER POINTS OF DIFFERENCE
How are your currently measuring your Principles of Management students to ensure that learning took place?
NEW: Pre- and Post-Tests allow you to assess students' comprehension of topics covered in the text. These assessments are located in OneKey.
What are some current topics of importance that you want to make sure you cover in your course?
NEW: Enhancing Your Skill in Ethical Decision Making - At the end of each section students are put in the role of a manager making decisions about current ethical issues. This exercise comes to life as students log in their OneKey course and practice this skill in an interactive environment.
-Help students understand the ethical challenges they'll face as managers!
NEW: Diversity Perspectives - At the end of each section students are put the role of a manager making decisions about managing a changing workforce. Students are prompted to visit their OneKey course to practice their decision-making skills related to age, gender, or ethnic diversity in an interactive environment.
-Helps students understand the value and challenges of managing a diverse workforce.
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Managers and Management
History Module The Historical Roots of Contemporary Management Practices
2. The Management Environment
PART II: PLANNING
3. Foundations of Planning
4. Foundations of Decision Making
Quantitative Module Quantitative Decision-Making Aids
PART III: ORGANIZING
5. Basic Organization Designs
6. Staffing and Human Resource Management
Career Module Building Your Career
7. Managing Change, Stress, and Innovation
PART IV: LEADING
8. Foundations of Individual and Group Behavior
9. Understanding Work Teams
10. Motivating and Rewarding Employees
11. Leadership and Trust
12. Communication and Interpersonal Skills
PART V: CONTROLLING
13. Foundations of Control
14. Operations Management