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This new EMEA edition of Richard L. Daft´s market-leading text Management includes all of the hallmark features that make the text popular with students but they have been fully updated for European, Middle Eastern and African students.

Alan Benson (University of Exeter, UK) brings a new perspective on the ever-changing world of Management to provide a complete introduction to the key theories and industry issues.

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1.Introduction to Management
2.The Evolution of Management Thinking
3.The Organisation and Corporate Culture4.The Dynamics of Alternative Organizational Forms
5.Managing in a Global Environment
6.Managing Ethics and Social Corporate Governance
7.Managerial Planning and Goal Setting
8.Strategy Formulation and Execution
9.Managerial Decision-making
10.Managing Small Business Start-ups
11.Managing Change and Innovation
12.Managing Corporate Diversity
13.Leadership
14.Managing Human Resources
15.Managing Communication
16.Leading Teams
17.Online chapter:Managing Quality and Performance

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Daft, Richard
Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management and Principal Senior Lecturer in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, where he specializes in the study of leadership and organization theory. Dr. Daft is a fellow of the Academy of Management and has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management Education. He was associate editor-in-chief of Organization Science and associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Dr. Daft has authored or co-authored 13 books, including THE EXECUTIVE AND THE ELEPHANT, ORGANIZATION THEORY AND DESIGN, THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE and MANAGEMENT. He also has authored dozens of scholarly articles, papers and chapters, and has published in the Administrative Science Quarterly; Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; Strategic Management Journal; Journal of Management, Accounting, Organizations and Society; Management Science; MIS Quarterly; and Organizational Behavior Teaching Review. Dr. Daft has received several government research grants in organization design, organizational innovation and change, strategy implementation and organizational information processing. An active teacher and respected consultant, Dr. Daft has served as associate dean and helped manage a start-up enterprise. He has provided management development and consulted for numerous organizations, including the American Banking Association, AutoZone, Bridgestone, Vulcan Materials, TVA, Pratt & Whitney, Allstate Insurance, State Farm Insurance, the United States Air Force, the U.S. Army, Central Parking System, USAA, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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